Data Science Vice President - Scotland, United Kingdom - Okta Resourcing

Description

This is an exceptional new position for a VP of Data Science with a global, data-driven company with cutting-edge technology who leverage data to serve as a true market differentiator. The person in this role will be at the forefront of shaping and evolving data, analytics and research and creating a centre of excellence for the global organisation.

The individual in this role will be asked to:

• Lead a diverse team of Data Scientists, Analysts and Engineers
• Oversee the development and execution of product research, internal data consultancy, and data accessibility initiatives
• Provide recommendations on business, product, and data strategy.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to ensure commercial viability, and product governance.
• Define and monitor the data function's OKRs, including the measures of effectiveness for data science & analytics.
• Embed the data function into different parts of the business (product, marketing, tech) and across product lines..
• Lead advanced quantitative analyses using statistical modelling approaches.
• Investigate and implement new analytical and data products, determining the value of modern advances, i.e. AI/Generative AI
• Use a modular approach for building the mature Data Science offering, creating components that can be repurposed to ensure continuous evolution of the next generation of products.

And should have experience of:

• Growing and leading Data Science teams
• Statistics, mathematics or other highly quantitative fields.
• Overseeing data-led projects.
• Integrating Data Science into different parts of a business (i.e product, marketing, tech)
• online and offline model delivery.
• Identifying business hypotheses worth pursuing.
• Hypothesis testing whilst including real-world constraints.
• Data structures, databases, and ETL processes.
• AWS, Snowflake, DBT, Jupyter notebooks, Spark, Mongo, and Postgress or similar.

This is a pragmatic and humble organisation who are looking for like minded people to help them deliver their revolutionary technology.

In return for sharing your talent and dedication, they offer a Competitive salary, RSU's, great benefits and annual leave together with a position of value within the organisation from day one, and the chance to have a key role in creating a product which will play a defining role in the continuously evolving converged TV sector.