Data Science Lead at 54 Collective

Responsibilities

You will:

• Engage with our portfolio companies to support their data science ambitions
• Lead the development of machine learning models and other data-driven solutions for portfolio companies.
• Spot opportunities to use data and algorithms in novel ways to deliver value and improve processes.
• Work with startups across the 54 Collective portfolio to identify their data science capability gaps.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the use of data science/ML and have a strategic impact on their overall businesses

Requirements

You should:

• Have good knowledge of data science, statistical analysis and data engineering.
• In particular statistical learning methods, and the ability to work with large, complex and uncleansed datasets.
• Have good coding skills in a language suitable for data science, preferably Python.
• Be able to switch between hands-on execution and strategic advice, as needed.
• Be comfortable with deploying data services and infrastructure to production systems.
• Have high emotional intelligence and empathy for our founders and their teams as well as for your fellow colleagues in the 54 Collective operations team.
• Be organised with a strong attention to detail and an ability to balance detail with the big picture.
• Have a deep passion for defining and solving loosely defined problems.
• Have good communication and collaboration skills.
• Have 5+ years experience, especially deploying commercial data science/ML projects and working collaboratively with team members