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Lead Data Scientist
Lead Data Scientist
This role involves working closely with business teams to identify and prioritize data-driven problem statements. Responsibilities include leading and designing data-backed experiments to enhance process efficiency and managing requirements from functional leaders to build and execute growth strategies. The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of relevant experience with strong scripting skills in R/Python and a solid understanding of statistical/ML problems.
About the role
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with business teams to understand the business objective and choose the right problem statements to prioritize.
- Lead/design and help teams run data-backed experiments to improve process efficiency and create systems to capture them.
- Manage expectations and requirements from functional leaders in Marketing, Procurement, assortment strategy, and operations to build and execute data-driven growth strategies.
- Wear the Zepto badge with pride. We are looking for owners - not employees.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's/Masters's in Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, or Statistics from a reputed institute.
- 5-10 years of experience in a relevant role.
- Ability to structure real-life nontrivial problems into statistical or ML problems as per need.
- Experience with a multitude of different approaches and concepts to the same set of problems.
- Maintain industry standards for serving and code infrastructure while not compromising on speed in a cost-efficient manner.
- Ability to manage multiple tracks of requests and projects along with leading the team in the right direction.
- Leads internal DS initiatives to push the envelope in terms of process, technology, tools, etc.
- Excellent scripting skills in R/Python with an understanding of version control and cloud ecosystem.
- Experience with building and writing scalable software systems.
- Ability to write clean and readable code.
- Clear communication and explanations wherever deemed fit.
- Basic SQL with the ability to fetch, and transform data tables.
- Strong understanding of statistical/control system techniques and methods such as distributions (poisson, binomial), data intricacies (independent, skewness, kurtosis etc), closed loop system design etc.
- People with an endless curiosity and hunger to learn with an owner's mindset.
- Structured thinking to solve real-world problems under severe constraints.
- Comfort with a fast-paced unstructured environment.
- Excellent partnership and collaboration skills with the ability to work cross.