Lead Data Scientist

We are hiring a Lead Data Scientist with expertise and passion for uplift modelling / incremental modelling for a 12 Month Contract (potential to extend / convert to permanent). This is in a high quality Data Science and ML team working on very impactful Customer/Marketing/Causal Modelling. You will lead 2 x Senior Data Scientists and also be hands-on (approximately 30%-40%), along with owning key stakeholder relationships with Marketing, Product and Commercial execs. You will play a large role in proactively driving best-practices & standards in casual inference and incrementality and balance commercial acumen with translating and adopting new techniques, models and approaches to stay ahead of the curve.

• Location: Sydney - 3 days in CBD office / 2 days WFH
• Duration: 12 Months, with view to extend / convert to permanent
• Pay: $1,000 - $1,150 per day, including super (or plus GST for Pty Ltd)

About the work:

This is a true technical + team lead role (not a senior manager, nor a senior DS). This job has opened up due to an internal promotion and as such, you will have a fantastic handover with the current Lead who is rotating to a new business area after 5 years in this space. The business impact is large (>8 figures) and we would love to bring someone who is great at managing non-technical Marketing + Product executives, but also brings some scientific rigour that can be missing in lots of data science and AI teams.

You'll have a highly technical leader (strong ML / production data science background also) who cares about best practice and building capability for a very strong practice that involves Uplift / Incrementality modelling.

Required Experience:

• 7-12+ years in 'traditional' Data Science and ML - with a minimum of 1 year experience in a Lead Data Scientist Role
• Hands-on experience with production ML at some scale (ideally millions of customers/users)
• Experience with recommender systems / multi-armed bandits is highly desired / requested
• Expertise with Causal Modelling / Causal Inference and Uplift Modelling/Incrementality
• Experience in a marketplace business / high volume e-commerce / advertising / media is very advantageous
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence + translate concepts and benefits of scientific rigour, experimentation to business executives
• Proactive approach to work and a pragmatic, ownership mindset

We are interviewing currently and will go through full context and requirements with shortlisted candidates.