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Director of Data Science
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director of Data Science
Forbes Advisor
• Lead the strategy and delivery of predictive models that improve customer acquisition, marketing performance and long-term commercial value. • Partner with Marketing, Product and Commercial teams to apply Data Science to real business problems. • Work closely with Engineering and ML Ops to ensure models become reliable, production-ready products. • Lead and develop a growing team of Data Scientists while building trusted relationships across the business. • Represent Forbes in strategic conversations with technology partners while staying connected to advances in AI, machine learning and marketing science.
Job Requirements
- Experience leading commercial Data Science, Marketing Science or Decision Science teams.
- Strong expertise in predictive analytics, customer analytics, machine learning and statistical modelling.
- Experience applying Data Science to marketing performance, customer acquisition, lifetime value or value-based bidding.
- Experience productionising machine learning solutions within modern cloud environments and working closely with Engineering and ML Ops teams.
- Strong understanding of SQL, Python and modern machine learning frameworks.
- Experience working with Google Ads, Meta or other major advertising platforms.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and commercial audiences.
- Experience building and developing high-performing Data Science teams.
- Strong commercial judgement, balancing technical excellence with measurable business impact.
- A pragmatic approach to AI, applying emerging technologies where they create genuine commercial value.
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunities
- Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type
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