Matrimony.com - Vice President - Data Science

Designation: Vice President Data Science

Role: Head of Data Science

Role Summary:

Head Data Science must be a hands-on Statistician and Data Scientist, who will develop and manage a world class team of data scientists that will drive customer engagement and business value by using data and advanced analytics. She/he will act as a thought leader for the use of data to drive critical business strategy and decisions

Responsibilities:

- Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to progressively move towards an increasingly data driven organization

- Lead all data related activities to support development of new data science approaches and methodologies to improve operations and business outcomes

- Project management of multiple projects involving different stake holders.

- Partner with Business and Product in design, measurement and feedback loop for continuous improvement

- Support the different business functions in meeting their core metrics by finding impactful business insights

- Mentor and develop a team of data scientists

- Partner with academia and vendors to leverage cutting edge AI/ML solutions for the organizations

Core Competencies :

- Expertise in statistics, regression and classification models, machine learning techniques, NLP and Optimization techniques.

- Proven competencies in learning new products and services, new markets, new verticals

- Experience in data driven optimization in the areas of Sales, Marketing, Customer Engagement, Fraud risk and Operational risk.

- Experience in python, R or any other programming language for data science

- Experience working with big data and machine learning technologies

Skills:

- Strong strategic, creative and analytical skills in order to develop and scale plans, strategies and tactics for a business model.

- Develop and mentor a high performing data science team

- Strategic Orientation

- Business and Financial Acumen

- Analytical thinking

- Problem Solving

Education and Experience :

Masters in Statistics/MS/PhD from a Tier I Management Institution, with sound knowledge on Quantitative Science/Statistics and a minimum of 15 years' experience.