Senior Manager of Data Science leading a team of data scientists for high-growth digital commerce initiatives at URBN. Guiding intelligent decision-making across the product lifecycle with a focus on AI innovations.
Responsibilities
Lead a team of data scientists, identifying strengths and development areas to foster a collaborative and inclusive environment.
Own talent strategy and career development, providing one on one coaching, facilitating access to training, and delivering advice to help team members advance from individual contributors to technical leaders.
Drive the recruiting and retention of top data science talent, ensuring the team's growth aligns with the scaling needs of the initiative.
Serve as the end to end owner of project delivery, managing resources, timelines, and the operational cadence from inception to completion.
Act as a primary interface for stakeholders, prioritizing initiatives to protect the roadmap and ensuring the team hits high impact milestones on time.
Collaborate with Product Management and peer partners to define and execute technical roadmaps, ensuring data science capabilities are integrated into the core platform strategy.
Drive the end-to-end realization of unique AI initiatives, taking your own ideas and stakeholder needs from initial concept through to production-level GenAI, vision, and forecasting solutions.
Serve as the final technical sign off for the team's output, reviewing and approving technical approaches to ensure they are sound, scalable, and align with project goals.
Maintain a hands-on presence by contributing to code performance optimization, data engineering, and quality assurance to ensure production level reliability.
Partner with the Senior Principal Data Scientist to bridge the gap between prototyping and production scale execution, translating high level technical vision into actionable software design.
Collaborate with Engineering to ensure data sources and infrastructure are designed to support production level machine learning and custom reporting.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in data science or analytics roles with demonstrated progression in scope and responsibility.
2+ years of leadership experience, specifically in managing data science teams, recruiting talent, and retaining top performers.
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL for data manipulation, analysis, and code review.
Experience with managing complex, large-scale data science projects from inception to production.
Familiarity with the AI/ML lifecycle, including understanding model experimentation, monitoring, and maintenance in a production setting.
Exposure to modern AI domains, such as Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, or multimodal embedding models is highly preferred.
Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field).
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ML concepts into practical industry applications for non-technical leadership.
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