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Senior Data Science Manager

15gifts
Brighton
6 days ago
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Overview

15gifts Brighton, England, United Kingdom. We are seeking a Senior Data Science Manager to lead our team of data scientists in developing the AI/ML infrastructure powering Humara, our Gen AI product that helps users discover products, answer questions in real time, and guide them through complex sales processes.

About the role: You will lead data science strategy, guide technology and architecture decisions, ensure scalable and cost-effective solutions, and drive the model lifecycle and roadmap for the product.

Responsibilities
  • Managing, mentoring, and supporting a team of data scientists
  • Introducing the latest industry developments for evaluation and adoption
  • Identifying, socialising and building ambitious data science capabilities to take the product forward
  • Serving as a subject matter expert internally and externally, engaging with key customer stakeholders
  • Translating use cases, pain points and success criteria into technical solutions
  • Collaboratively developing and agreeing on data-driven solutions
  • Building and maintaining high-quality machine learning models and tooling
  • Writing robust, automated tests to ensure system integrity and quality
  • Promoting data governance through documentation, observability and controls
  • Troubleshooting, resolving issues, maintaining operational stability and responding to incidents
  • Championing tools, standards, and best practices within the team
Skills and experience
  • Proven experience managing and mentoring data science teams
  • Strong commercial experience in a senior data science role
  • Comfortable owning and delivering technical projects end-to-end
  • Deep understanding of machine learning model lifecycles and MLOps patterns
  • Comfortable evaluating both business and technical requirements
  • Skilled at training models on large datasets
  • Experience with Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn and other ML frameworks
  • Strong knowledge of cloud computing (AWS preferred), containerisation and model deployment
Benefits
  • Medicash healthcare scheme (reclaim costs for dental, physiotherapy, osteopathy and optical care)
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off (rising to 28 after 3 consecutive years with the business & 30 after 5 years)
  • Employee Assistance Programme (confidential counselling)
  • Gogeta nursery salary sacrifice scheme (save up to 40% per year)
  • Enhanced parental leave and pay including 26 weeks’ full maternity pay and 8 weeks’ paternity leave
Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Full-time
Job function
  • Information Technology
Industries
  • Technology, Information and Media

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