Data Science Team Lead - Remote

Overview

As a Data Science Team Lead at Vacasa, Prague you'll lead a newly emerging team which has an impact on maximizing company's revenue and efficiency. Vacasa's ML and Data Science initiatives span various areas, including dynamic pricing and probability models, with opportunities to explore recommender systems, NLP, and neural networks using extensive data resources.

In Short

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Data Scientists
• Participate in Product Discovery sessions with key stakeholders
• Translate business requirements into concrete deliverables, and oversee their delivery
• Set clear, measurable goals for your team.
• Drive best practices through experimentation, tool selection, testing, tracking, and documentation.
• Discover insights in our data that will improve performance of our business.
• Present results to stakeholders and executives as needed

Requirements

• Experience with leading a team, track record of delivering results and coaching individual team members
• Ability to navigate bigger organization with engineering spread across numerous time zones
• Excellent communication in English
• Ability to interact with business stakeholders
• Experience in dealing with large, semi-structured, raw data.
• Familiarity with Python, pandas, numpy, pytorch, scikit-learn, SQL, Apache Spark, or equivalent.
• Overview of modern generative AI and machine learning algorithms, including supervised, unsupervised, neural network, regression, and tree-based approaches.
• Familiarity with cloud service architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with AWS tools such as SageMaker, EMR, Lambda, and Fargate a plus.
• Familiarity with Docker or other container systems is a plus
• Dynamic Pricing Experience is a plus

Benefits

• 5 weeks of vacation
• 12 sick days
• Meal allowance
• Contribution for pension insurance
• Hybrid work and flexible working hours
• Fresh fruits and snacks in the office
• Employee Assistance Program
• Career development opportunities
• All the equipment you’ll need to be successful
• Modern offices in Prague - Karlín