Senior Data Science Manager

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Information Technology

• Technology, Information and Media

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