Senior/Lead Data Scientist

Senior/Lead Data ScientistStarbucks is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Scientist to drive data-informed decisions across our global coffee business. In this role, you'll lead advanced analytics, experimentation, and machine learning projects that optimize store operations, pricing, and customer experience. You'll partner with cross-functional teams to turn complex data into clear insights, build predictive models, and guide data strategy. You will mentor other data scientists, champion data quality and governance, and help scale analytics capabilities that support sustainable growth, ethical sourcing, and our values-driven mission.ResponsibilitiesLead end-to-end analytics and machine learning projects from problem framing to deployment and measurementDevelop predictive and prescriptive models to optimize customer experience, operations, and pricingDesign and analyze experiments and A/B tests to evaluate initiatives and inform strategyCollaborate with product, operations, marketing, and finance teams to translate business needs into data solutionsBuild dashboards and visualizations that communicate complex insights clearly to non-technical stakeholdersEnsure data quality, governance, and reproducibility across analytics workflowsMentor and guide junior data scientists and analysts, sharing best practices and standardsContribute to the long-term data and analytics strategy, tooling, and model lifecycle managementRequired SkillsPythonRSQLMachine learningStatistical modelingA/B testing and experimentationData visualization (Tableau/Power BI)Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)Data wrangling and ETLBig data tools (Spark/Hadoop)