Data Scientist Lead

3 days ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Partly Full time

**This role**
You will be leading a team of incredibly ambitious and talented data scientists to tackle hard and exciting problems using cutting-edge research.
This is an opportunity to work in an extremely fast-paced environment and take on rewarding challenges and responsibilities. You will report to Tim Grunshaw (Director of Engineering).

**What will you do**
- **Lead the data science team** including coaching, project prioritization, and hiring.
- **Design, implement, and oversee** solutions for complex clustering, classification, and statistical modelling problems that include uncleaned & unstructured data.
- **Set a high bar for technical excellence** in the data science organization through ensuring sound data science methodology and scalability.
- **Help develop the roadmap for the data science** **team** by understanding short-term priorities and the long-term vision.

**Your skills**
- **You have experience leading a team or are in a senior role with aspirations to lead a team.** You focus on impact and drive excellence in your processes. You demonstrate exceptional coaching and mentoring ability.
- **You have deep data science experience.** You have used a range of techniques such as machine learning, statistical modelling, NLP, GNNs, and visualisation.
- **You have strong verbal and written communication and collaboration skills**. You can quickly distil abstract problems into a concrete set of steps. You can understand the complexity and drive prioritization of these steps.
- **You have experience deploying, scaling, and maintaining ML solutions in production systems.**
- **_(Bonus)_** You are firmly grounded in software engineering fundamentals.* Including data structures, APIs, testing, and design patterns.

**Benefits**
- **Competitive base salary plus equity**. Even though we’re a small startup, we offer competitive salaries and great equity.
- **Parental leave and flexible return to work**. After returning to work, primary carers can work 4-day weeks for 100% of their pay for the first twelve weeks. For secondary carers, we offer 10 days of leave at full pay.
- **Flexible working hours**. We’re office-first, but are flexible with hours and working from home when you need to.
- **A brand new architecturally designed office in Christchurch CBD**. With free snacks, drinks on tap, two different coffee machines, social areas, and one of the best cafes in Christchurch 50m away.
- **Monthly team lunches **to celebrate our wins and enjoy each other's company outside the office.
- **Ergonomic workspace**. Sit-stand desks, ergonomic chairs, quiet spaces, and collaboration spaces to suit all kinds of working styles.

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