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Manager, Data Science

Dallas

$175000 - $200000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Dallas, Texas

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Location: Fort Worth or Dallas (Addison) or Charlotte, NC. – Hybrid – 2 Days per week in office.

Compensation: 170K-200K Base Salary

We are a technology firm developing innovative financial products focused on managing everyday expenses. The Data Science team applies advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to create predictive models used in Underwriting, Account Management, and Operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of data scientists to deliver predictive models, risk models, and analytical solutions that drive business value.
  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning algorithms for use across various functions including Underwriting, Marketing, and Operations.
  • Collaborate with business partners to meet goals and support various teams and portfolios.
  • Process and analyze large datasets using tools like Python, Spark, and Snowflake.
  • Implement and test machine learning algorithms for risk management in acquisition channels.
  • Apply data mining techniques to minimize credit/fraud losses and optimize product profitability.
  • Manage the implementation of scoring models on decision platforms, including the cloud.
  • Provide expertise on third-party data sources (e.g., TransUnion, Experian) and guide effective data usage.
  • Document models and processes using tools like Jupyter Notebook and Rmarkdown.

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, etc.); Ph.D. preferred.
  • At least six years of experience in data science or risk modeling, with two years in a leadership role.
  • Expertise in machine learning techniques (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, LASSO, etc.).
  • Strong data manipulation and engineering skills.
  • Proficiency in Python, R, Java, Linux, and big data tools (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Snowflake).
  • Experience with database technologies (NoSQL, JSON/XML parsing, etc.).
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

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Head of Machine Learning

New York

$300000 - $350000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
New York

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Head of Machine Learning

REMOTE

$300,000 – $350,000 base + benefits

THE COMPANY

This company is a prominent player in the online gaming and casino industry, committed to delivering the best experience for its users through the power of data. While they already have a data platform in place, they are embarking on a cutting-edge transformation to elevate their machine learning and data science capabilities across the organization!

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Grow the machine learning team from scratch
  • Technical leadership over machine learning models for recommendation and personalization engines, understanding real-time temperament of players
  • Own initiatives to discover trends and patterns in the gaming industry
  • Lead the company’s machine learning strategy
  • Partner with cross-functional departments and C-suite stakeholders (engineering, product, marketing, advertising)
  • Oversee ML projects from end-to-end
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for the business and interact with stakeholders

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or STEM field
  • 10+ years of commercial experience within AdTech/MarTech, specifically with experience building real-time decision-making platforms i.e. recommenders or personalization
  • History of leading machine learning projects end-to-end
  • Comfortable partnering with non-technical stakeholders
  • Expert with Python (particularly statistical packages), TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras
  • Track record of leading revenue-impactful projects
  • Experience managing and growing data science teams
  • Fluent in understanding customer / consumer data
  • Ability to show examples of outside-the-box thinking
  • Comfortable in autonomous and collaborative settings

BENEFITS

The compensation package contains a base salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.

KEY TERMS

Data Science | Machine Learning | ML Engineer | Engineering | Deployment | Production | Real Time | Statistics | Mathematics | AdTech | Advertising | Python | Recommendation Engine | Recommender System | Personalization | Bespoke | Target Audience

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Director, Machine Learning Platform

Jersey City

$240000 - $260000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Jersey City, New Jersey

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Director, Machine Learning Platform
Financial Services

Jersey City, New Jersey – 4 days onsite
$240,000-260,000 base + bonus + RSUs

We’ve joined forces with a leading financial powerhouse to find an exceptional leader who will shape the future of their AI/ML platforms. This is your chance to spearhead groundbreaking projects at the cutting edge of technology, with the potential to make a global impact. If you’re a GPU mastermind with a burning passion for building MLOps infrastructure from the ground up, this is the opportunity for you.

The Role

  • Lead a team of skilled AI/ML/MLOps Engineers to deliver innovative solutions and solve complex problems in the financial services sector.
  • Drive the strategic vision for the firm’s AI/ML frameworks and GPU-powered platforms while staying hands-on with technical execution.
  • Define the strategic direction for AI/ML frameworks and GPU-powered platforms.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to implement best-in-class tools and technologies.
  • Apply MLOps best practices to create seamless, efficient deployment pipelines.
  • Build and maintain containerized runtime environments for AI/ML workloads.

Skills and Experience

  • Expert-level proficiency in Python programming and machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.
  • In-depth experience with GPUs and related technologies, including CUDA.
  • Hands-on experience with containerization, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Direct people management experience of modest-sized teams
  • Ability to gain buy-in from stakeholders across the business
  • Fluent in machine learning operations, runtime, orchestration and workflow optimization
  • Fluent in maintaining containerized runtime environments
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution.
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar

THE BENEFITS

A competitive base salary of $240,000-260,000 + bonus + equity

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Machine Learning | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | LLMs | Large Language Models | Artificial Intelligence | MLOps | Production | Machine Learning Operations | AI | Artificial Intelligence | GPUs | Containerization | PyTorch | Python | CUDA

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Customer Data Analyst (12-month FTC)

London

£30000 - £40000

+ Advance Analytics & Mrktg Insight

Permanent
London

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Customer Data Analyst (12-month FTC)

Up to £40,000

Hybrid – London

A great opportunity to join a leading luxury fashion brand as a Customer Data Analyst on a 12-month FTC

THE COMPANY

The business are a leading and iconic luxury fashion brand seeking to hire a pivotal role into their analytics team with the addition of a Customer Data Analyst on a 12 month fixed term contract.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Analyse client data to identify active and dormant customer segments, providing insights that shape targeted strategies
  • Develop and recommend activation strategies to encourage increased customer visits and spending
  • Deliver actionable insights on customer behaviours and preferences, driving business improvements
  • Collaborate with teams to design and measure the impact of customer activation campaigns
  • Ensure data quality and accuracy by auditing, cleaning, and maintaining data integrity

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Knowledge of tools like SQL, Excel, and data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in data segmentation and visualisation
  • Background in luxury fashion/goods is desirable
  • A proactive approach to data quality and accuracy, with a keen eye for detail
  • The ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.
  • A collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills

THE BENEFITS

  • Up to £40,000 + benefits
  • Hybrid
  • London

HOW TO APPLY

If interested in the role please send your CV to Jordan Victor via the Apply Link below

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Yield Analyst

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advance Analytics & Mrktg Insight

Permanent
London

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Yield Analyst (12-month FTC)

Up to £55,000

Hybrid – London

A great opportunity to join a leading media conglomerate as a Yield Analyst on a 12 month fixed term contract

THE COMPANY

The business are a leading media conglomerate with over 16 brands across the world.

Joining the business as a Yield Analyst, you’ll be joining the Commercial Finance team and leading the digital advertising yield strategy for the business.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Running monthly reports looking at advertising, revenue and inventory
  • Driving advertising yield strategy and responding to changing business priorities
  • Providing insights and analytics to stakeholders
  • Developing pricing action plans, measure and analyse results, initiate corrective actions and minimise impact of risk
  • Evaluating new opportunities and strategies to ensure adoption and monetisation of ad products
  • Managing products in booking systems, including product creation and changes
  • Cross collaboration across the business

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Proven technical experience in Excel, Big Query/Power BI and Google Ads Manager
  • Extensive experience within yield management (advertising, revenue, reporting, inventory management etc.)
  • Experience using advertising booking systems/ within digital advertising yield

THE BENEFITS

  • Up to £55,000 (12-month FTC)
  • Hybrid
  • London

HOW TO APPLY

If interested in the role please send your CV to Jordan Victor via the Apply Link below

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Marketing Data Scientist

London

£55000 - £70000

+ Advance Analytics & Mrktg Insight

Permanent
London

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Marketing Data Scientist

Up to £70,000

Hybrid – London

A great opportunity to join a leading media conglomerate as a Marketing Data Scientist

THE COMPANY

The business is one of the world’s leading media conglomerates and this role sits within its subsidiary business which focuses on help clients to excel in marketing and accelerate performance from a marketing perspective.

Joining as a Marketing Data Scientist, you will be responsible for focusing on designing, analysing and optimising data and processes that underpin the overall business model. Enabling the business to capitalise and leverage data to optimise business growth.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ensuring data models align with business goals
  • Translating business needs into technical requirements for data model projects
  • Collecting and analysing data to provide insights into customer behaviour, revenue trends, market trends and operational performance
  • Identify factors that may affect business models
  • Integrating data to analyse efficiency, gaps or internal and external constraints
  • Building prescriptive and predictive models using data analysis

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong experience in SQL, Python or R and Data Visualisation
  • Proven track record in statistical analysis and predictive analytics
  • Experience developing predictive models
  • Strong stakeholder management skills

THE BENEFITS

  • Up to £70,000
  • Hybrid
  • London

HOW TO APPLY

If interested in the role please send your CV to Jordan Victor via the Apply Link below

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Lead Analyst

London

£75000 - £95000

+ Advance Analytics & Mrktg Insight

Permanent
London

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Lead Analyst

Up to £95,000

Hybrid – London

A great opportunity to join a leading consumer goods and food delivery business as a Lead Analyst

THE COMPANY

The business are a leading consumer goods and food delivery business as a Lead Analyst. And they are undergoing a period of rapid growth in which they are opening 100 new stores and growing by 5-10% week on week.

With this period of rapid growth, they are now seeking to transform their marketing outlook with the addition of a Lead Analyst to the team.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Analyse and enhance key metrics across customer acquisition, retention and revenue generation
  • Develop and maintain advanced data models using dbt
  • Ensure KPIs are aligned with overall business objectives, identifying areas for improvement and efficiency
  • Ensure data insights are clear and actionable for driving performance improvements
  • Use data to provide strategic solutions that enhance how the business grows and operates as a company
  • Communicate complex analysis and data insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong technical experience in SQL (specifically within Windows Functions), Snowflake, Data Visualisation and Python/R
  • Strong background in advanced analytics, predictive modelling and exploratory analysis
  • Proven expertise in DBT and reporting
  • Strong stakeholder management skills

THE BENEFITS

  • Up to £95,000 + bonuses + equity
  • Hybrid
  • London

HOW TO APPLY

If interested in the role please send your CV to Jordan Victor via the Apply Link below

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Senior Location Analytics Consultant

London

£45000 - £55000

+ Advance Analytics & Mrktg Insight

Permanent
London

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Senior Location Analytics Consultant

Up to £55,000

Hybrid – London

A great opportunity to join a leading business consultancy in their Location Analytics team

THE COMPANY

The Location Analytics team is responsible for the delivery of advanced geospatial analysis and insight to businesses across a range of different sectors. Using their consulting and data skills to help clients optimise their location strategies.

Joining the team, as a Senior Location Analytics Consultant you will take responsibility for a range of projects related to Location Analytics whilst also remaining hands-on from a technical perspective.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ensure clarity and achievability of project goals prior to starting projects
  • Planning timescales of projects and subsequently communicating with stakeholders
  • Dissecting complex business problems and finding innovative resolutions
  • Contribute to innovations in Location Analytics
  • Leading on a wide range of Location Analytics projects

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong background in Geospatial or Location Analytics
  • Proven track record leading the end to end delivery of projects
  • Good knowledge of data and analytics
  • Strong communication and leadership skills

THE BENEFITS

  • Up to £55,000 + benefits
  • Hybrid
  • London

HOW TO APPLY

If interested in this role please send your CV to Jordan Victor via the Apply Link below

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