Research Team Leader

תאור התפקיד

 
As data-science team lead you will run the team that tells us what cool things can we do with the pills of data we obtain. You will lead and expand a team of brilliant data scientists, and collaborate with product and engineers to ensure our vision and pragmatic needs are aligned. You are expected to understand our business, then lead the thought process of identifying what the merger of data and algorithms can do to best answer these needs in innovative ways.  The Data Science team is a high profile team that is a center of innovation for the company and a major contributor to the company’s core products. The types of challenges we solve have attracted people from industry and academia with diverse backgrounds, ranging from machine learning, physics, biology, neuroscience, and computer science
We value passionate, down to earth, “can do” team players. If you are a pragmatic innovator, you will like it here!
Major Responsibilities:
  • Develop Data Science Roadmap and Objectives and align with Product and Engineering
  • Prototype solutions, validate predictive models, evaluate new methods and advise on machine learning technologies in advance of formal development
  • Sign off on definition of done for all Data Science product stories
  • Review and deliver data science solutions across products
  • Directly manage a team of data scientists, hire, onboard and train new team members
  • Establish repeatable methods, frameworks and best practices for your team
  • Work on challenging fundamental data science problems in NLP, user segmentation, optimization, etc.

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Qualifications:
  • 2+ years of managerial experience, leading researchers. 4+ years of experience as a data science, professional experience in algorithm development, machine learning, information retrieval or data mining in the industry
  • Strong mathematics & statistics background. Strong technical skills, deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • MSc in a relevant field (computer science, mathematics, statistics or related), Ph.D. is an advantage.
  • 3+ years of Fluency with at least one coding language such as Python / Scala / MATLAB / R
  • Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
  • Ability to analyze large data sets and find patterns in it, design algorithmic solutions and implement them into a working product
  • Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches using machine learning methods
  • Track record of using advanced statistical methods, information retrieval, data mining techniques
  • Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
  • Acquaintance with Big Data technologies (Hadoop / Hive / Pig / Spark) and noSQL databases (Elasticsearch /neo4 / orientDB) – an advantage
  • A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
  • Ready to work hard while doing amazing stuff, have a positive and engaging personality, and a true teammate!