Senior Data Scientist - New York, NY

Senior Data Scientist – New York, NY

Pay Range: $129,700.00 – $176,820.00 Brand: Victoria's Secret Location: New York, NY Location Type: Hybrid Job Area: Information Technology Employment Type: Full-time

This position is located at our New York, NY office with weekly in office expectations.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria's Secret & Co, you'll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You'll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.

We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you'll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.

Your Role

The Data Sciences & Analytics is a global CoE team, incubated within Victoria' Secret & Co. (VS&Co), building the best-in-class suite of Data Science & Analytics Products that power the best shopping experience for our customers, and deliver actionable, customer-centric insights to our ecommerce, marketing, merchandising and supply chain teams enabling better business decisions on omni channel (digital + store) 360 performances.

The Senior Data Scientist will play a large technical role in architecting data science solutions and working with team members & business stakeholders to deliver outstanding business outcomes for problems across VS&Co.

You will be leading the building of machine learning models on:

• Customer segmentations, lookalike, affinity, CLV & propensity models
• A/B testing, measurement frameworks & Causal modelling
• Price elasticity & promo optimization models
• NLP, LLMs & embeddings, GenAI chat-bots

You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love writing and owning codes and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making, and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, result-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.

You will work directly on the AI problems that have the most impact on VS&Co's digital e-commerce, customer/marketing, pricing/promotions.

Your Impact

• Design the development of solutions that leverage data sciences & advanced analytics to develop required business solutions.
• Perform deep exploratory analysis on large scale customer data, identify shopping & interaction patterns, discover price elasticity & price sensitivity behaviors and build lifecycle models for targeting customers towards loyalty.
• Build conversational agents to deliver faster insights that drive customer strategy on acquisition, retention & growth.
• Evaluate, recommend, & implement state-of-the art algorithms and methods.
• Knowledge of MLOps practices.
• Engage & collaborate with business & technology partners. Communicate progress to all stakeholders.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
• M.S. or PH.D. in Computer Science, applied mathematics, statistics, physics, operations research, quantitative social sciences or related fields will be preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in data scientist roles preferably in retail domain.
• Strong understanding of computer technology with strong programming skills. Expert level proficiency in Python, SQL.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate complicated statistical analytical concepts & solutions to business stakeholders in a simplified comprehensible manner.
• Excellent presentation skills & ability to shape course of action through persuasion & negotiations.
• Collaborate actively with topic owners to understand and develop advanced analytics / data science
• Experience designing algorithms for a relevance system such as marketing, loyalty, etc.
• Strong engineering mindset and exposure to software engineering principles, Agile methodologies, distributed systems and applied Machine Learning.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance

An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.

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Benefits

• Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Merit increases and performance bonuses
• On-the-spot recognition and rewards for a job well done
• Employee stock purchase program
• Merchandise discounts
• Medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage
• Tuition reimbursement
• Commuter benefits

Working and Living in New York City

When you work at Victoria's Secret in New York City, you'll be at the heart of global fashion innovation and leadership. Our corporate offices are a creative hub of bold ideas, iconic branding, and visionary strategy. Here, we bring together gifted professionals in a wide variety of areas, including Product Development & Design, Merchandising & Planning, Marketing & Media Strategy, Digital & E-commerce, Creative Services, Asset Protection & Executive Security and Customer Experience Leadership. New York is also home to our flagship retail store with three floors of shopping, a champagne bar and much more. With a career at Victoria's Secret in New York, you'll enjoy an incomparable lifestyle where you'll be immersed in one of the most dynamic and exciting cities on Earth, known for its worldrenowned dining, shopping, entertainment and more.