Senior Data Science Director...

Job Description

As the Senior Director of Data Science, you will be a ground-breaking leader, responsible for guiding and inspiring aa dedicatedteam of data scientists and machine learning engineers. In this role, you’ll drive the thought leadership and development of innovative data solutions that enhance gameplay, improve user engagement, and optimize business outcomes. You will be a key partner for cross-functional teams—including product management, game operations, and growth—leveraging your data expertise to deliver engaging mobile games as well as industry-leading marketing performance.

Key Leadership Responsibilities

• Visionary Leadership: Define and communicate a clear vision and strategy for data science, ensuring alignment with organisational goals while inspiring your team to innovate and excel.
  
• Mentorship & Development: Provide ongoing mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to foster growth and enhance team performance. Create a collaborative and high-performance team culture that attracts top talent and encourages long-term career progression.
  
• Be a trusted advisor to senior executives and cross-functional leaders, advocating for data-driven decisions.
  
• Change Management: Lead the adoption of data science practices and continuous improvement, managing agility, return on investment, and keeping the company up to date with evolving industry trends.
  
• Ownership & Accountability: Assume full accountability for the data science function, from project execution to final integration and outcome assessment, ensuring that your team delivers impactful results on time and within scope.
  
  Key Technical Responsibilities
  
  
• Data Science Strategy & Best Practices: Drive standard processes in A/B-testing, predictive modelling, user clustering and reinforcement learning, to continually improve on data science value.
  
• Infrastructure Ownership: Lead the development of data science frameworks, including A/B testing and other data science tooling. Ensuring scalability, accuracy, and reliability across projects.
  
• Product & Engineering Collaboration: Supervise integration of data science solutions into games and platforms, partnering closely with product and engineering to ensure end-to-end solution success.
  
• Growth & Marketing Innovation: Collaborate with growth and marketing teams to develop advanced prediction models that support a dynamic, high-performance marketing landscape.
  
• Insight Communication: Translate complex analytical insights into actionable recommendations, presenting them to the senior leadership team to inform critical business decisions.
  
  What we need from you
  
  PhD or MSc or equivalent experience in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or a related field.
  
  Experience: 10+ years of data science experience, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role, managing teams in dynamic and collaborative environments.
  
  Technical Skills:
  
  
• Proven expertise in clustering, predictive modelling, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian statistics.
  
• Experience in reinforcement learning and Agentic systems would be ideal
  
• Experience in ML Ops and deploying machine learning models at scale.
  
• Proficiency in Python or R, and familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Kafka) and/or cloud platforms (e.g., GCP or Azure).
  
• Industry Knowledge: Experience in gaming or digital entertainment is a strong plus.
  
• Communication & Influence: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and influence collaborators at all levels of the organization, from junior analysts to executive leadership.
  
  Why Product Madness?
  
  As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino. With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.
  
  We live by our People First principle. Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us. We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day. But don’t just take our word for it. In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.
  
  So, what’s stopping you?
  
  Travel Expectations
  
  Up to 25%
  
  Additional Information
  
  At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.