Data Science Manager

About the role

Inspire Brands, a multi-brand restaurant company with more than 33,000 restaurants worldwide, is expanding its data science capabilities as part of its digital transformation and customer engagement strategy. It is looking for an experienced Data Science Manager to lead a team of data scientists delivering new AI and machine learning solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Manage a team of data scientists focused on marketing, personalization and recommender systems.
• Work closely with the digital marketing and CRM teams.
• Apply team management styles such as Scrum, Agile and Kanban.
• Manage 2 direct reports (data scientists).

Required profile

• Minimum: Master's degree in a STEM field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or PhD in a STEM field with 3+ years; preferred: 5+ years and experience managing multiple individual contributors.
• Able to manage stakeholders, think strategically and coach, mentor and manage highly technical full-time employees.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases.
• Proficiency in at least 3 of 6 tools: Spark, Python, R, SQL, Git version control, AWS/Azure/GCP.
• English proficiency required.