(Hospitality) Lead Data Scientist

• Apply your advanced analytical skills and machine learning experience to develop and implement predictive models, behavioral analytics, and optimization models
  
• Manage, mentor, and provide technical guidance to junior members of the team
  
• Effectively communicate your projects to stakeholders and higher management
  
• Constantly improve our practices and frameworks related to Data Science at scale
  
• Collaborate with the technology team on implementation and integration of the models into products
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in developing customer analytics models in the Retail/FinTech/Finance/e-commerce space, preferably in credit analytics, marketing, credit cards, application scorecards and anti-fraud models
  
• A proven track record of leading successful projects, stakeholder management skills and the ability to manage timelines and expectations
  
• Experience in managing and mentoring junior data scientists, strong communication skills and organizational coordination ability
  
• Strong hands-on experience in the model development life-cycle (training, testing, tuning, and performance monitoring)
  
• Excellent hands-on knowledge in at least two of these languages: R, Python, SQL
  
• The ability to understand existing models and conduct customization to fit into local markets/data
  
• Experience with use of transactional and alternative data for customer analytics and credit scoring, is a plus
  
• Experience working with AWS/Azure is a plus
  
• Degree in a quantitative discipline: Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Data Analytics, Machine Learning (Masters/PhD is a plus)
  
• Good theoretical understanding of relevant statistical models, their inner workings, assumptions, and limitations
  

Benefits