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$184,000 – $230,000
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What this role is
Lead Rent the Runway's Data Science team while staying hands-on with machine learning, building recommendation systems and personalization features that drive customer engagement. This role suits someone with 7+ years of quantitative work experience and 2+ years managing technical teams who wants both technical impact and people leadership.
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Skills this role names
- A/B Testing
- AI Personalization
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Customer Segmentation
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Google BigQuery
- Machine Learning
- Microsoft Azure
- Python
- Snowflake
- SQL
- Statistics
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What they ask for
Required
- 7+ years in data science, machine learning, applied statistics, product analytics, or related quantitative field
- 2+ years leading data science teams or providing technical mentorship
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing data scientists
- Python proficiency with predictive and machine learning modeling
- SQL proficiency for large-scale datasets
- Strong statistics and experimentation foundation
- Experience designing, building, and deploying recommendation systems or personalization solutions
- Technical leadership while balancing hands-on work with mentoring and people management
- Cloud AI/ML platform expertise (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Large-scale data platform experience (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar)
- Complex project leadership from problem definition through implementation
Nice to have
- Advanced degrees or specializations in quantitative fields
- GCP experience
- dbt and modern analytics engineering practices
- Familiarity with managed AI/ML services