Senior Director of Data Science Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Director of Data Science to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Build out a modern data platform that meets the core data provisioning needs of the organization’s data consumers;
- Create the process and capabilities to feed actionable insights back into Bigfoot’s departments for continued learning, iteration, and action;
- Build bridges between business and engineering stakeholders;
- Train and inspire stakeholders to identify opportunities to leverage data science and simulations;
- Define the company’s strategy for data distribution;
- Insert data requirements into technology choices and investment decisions;
- Play a mentorship role to key data science positions, guiding them through the execution of their duties, and encouraging their professional growth;
- Work with product management and engineering stakeholders to define a process around data instrumentation;
- Identify and provide tools and training to help others leverage data;
- Be passionate about learning new data-driven techniques that will move the company forward, including working with outside vendors where applicable;
- Build out an agile process by which your team can most effectively work with different groups in the company to drive the most value;
- Follow legal policies as directed;
- Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management;
- Lead and grow a team of data scientists and evangelize the idea of machine learning across multiple departments;
- Collaborate and build strategies with internal partners across the company to develop and deploy predictive models.
Requirements:
- Demonstrated success in advocacy for and implementation of enterprise-wide projects;
- Must enjoy and have demonstrated skillset for problem solving;
- Experience with enterprise-level data analysis, automation, and providing data-focused system integration solutions;
- Must enjoy and have demonstrated history for successful collaborations;
- An effective communicator able to bridge between biologics/chemical sciences and information technology;
- Has an appreciation of the type and uniqueness of data from biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing;
- Must be creative and have demonstrated ability to think beyond what is presently possible;
- Proven ability and experience in working with teams in departments such as marketing, merchandising, supply chain, and product management;
- Proven ability to lead a cross-functional team in a large company including training and advancing the skills of the team;
- Experience with data manipulation and analysis using SQL and other tools such as Python and R.