Shopclues.com - Director/Head - Data Science & Engineering

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About us

About ShopClues :

ShopClues.com is an Internet E-Commerce company focused on managed marketplace business in India. The company's vision is to be the largest and most customer centric E-Commerce company in India. ShopClues.com has been operating out of Silicon Valley since Feb 2011 and has its corporate office in Gurgaon. The company launched its Beta version online on 26thJanuary 2012. Shopclues.com's core team has 75 years of combined experience in E-Commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Majority of the core team members of ShopClues.com have moved back from the US, especially from Silicon Valley after long stint at companies such as eBay, Oracle, Nordstrom, and Silicon Valley start-ups. The core team believes that E-Commerce is going to be next big wave of growth in India as E-Commerce is only $450mm of the $450bn retail market in India vs. US where E-Commerce is $200bn of the $3,000bn retail industry and in China, where E-Commerce is $70bn of the $1,000bn retail industry. More importantly, the company sees huge opportunity in creating online shopping experience for Indian consumers, at par with the online shoppers in US and Western Europe. The company wants to offer second to none online shopping experience to the consumers in India by brining world-class, experience, learning and best practices for merchandizing, payments, fulfillments, fun & trusted shopping environment, and customer services.

ShopClues was awarded - e-Commerce Site of the Year- by Social Media Summit and Awards held on 14th February 2013 in Mumbai . This is a recognition of the big leap that ShopClues as one of the largest eCommerce sites of the year. And at the same time it recognizes our commitment to quality and customer service. ShopClues was awarded Best eRetailer of the Year - Value for Deals at Indian eRetail Awards 2013 by India eRetail Congress 2013 organized by the esteemed Franchise group held on 15th February 2013 in New Delhi/NCR. The award recognizes the value for money which ShopClues bring to the eCommerce buyer in the country.

JD-

- We are looking for a Head for their Data Science and Engineering vertical who can work collaboratively with their Product and Tech teams and help in growing the Data Science practice.

Job Description As a Director/Head, your responsibilities will include:

- Ownership of client's data science initiatives for all its products and services

- Setup end to end data pipeline

- Develop the Data

- Collaborating with Engineering and product teams to deliver high impact data science projects

- Developing and leading a team of Data Scientists and work on real world data sets that range into millions of data points that contain missing values, and unclean data The Successful Applicant As a successful candidate, you need to have:

- At least a Master's or a PhD in Mathematics, Statistics or any other quantitative field preferred

- 8+ years of experience in the analytics with extensive exposure to machine learning, natural language processing, data engineering, architecture design, statistical modelling and cloud computing.

- Strong programming skills in open source tools like R and Python

- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills What's on Offer Excellent opportunity to grow the data sciences team of a young organization and work in a meritocratic environment