Theweatherchannel
Director, Data Science and Analytics
Company
Role
Director, Data Science and Analytics
Location
Job type
Full-time
Found on Mokaru
136 months ago
Salary
Job description
- Explore big data to surface Insights to inform major product and business decisions
- Perform Statistical Natural Language Processing to mine unstructured data, using methods such as document clustering, topic analysis, named entity recognition and sentiment analysis
- Analyze and model structured data using advanced statistical methods
- Process data in large-scale environments
- Attract, select, develop, motivate, train and retain a team of high performing data science professionals
- Interface with multiple business units to help us grow analytics as a competitive business advantage and as a center of excellence within the business
- Select and manage relationship with outsourced analytics provider to augment staff as needed from time to time
- Manage day-to-day operations, including staffing, scheduling, and prioritization of engagements
- Lead the definition of processes and procedures to enable the team execute efficiently and the product ingest data optimally
- Identify data partners, both internal and external, to gather the data to build the best in class data solutions
- Provide sales support and enable the team sell bigger and better and provide metrics to justify the customer spend
- Be an evangelist and market the solution by promoting the value of the product from a data perspective using white papers, presentations, etc.
- Build a performance driven culture with a strong foundation of intellectual curiosity
- Masters degree applied statistics, mathematics, econometrics, or other discipline related to Time-Series Analysis, Machine Learning, or Forecasting, or its equivalent
- 10 years of relevant experience in data sciences and technology management, to include deploying predictive models into production
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to work with clients, products, and services across multiple industries
- Demonstrated performance in managing big data projects such as - MapReduce, Hadoop, HPCC
- Demonstrated proficiency in growing and managing a data sciences team
- Proficiency in managing in an Agile environment.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.


