Principal Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics

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Principal Data Scientist leading experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, and Generative AI. Advancing Vericast’s data-driven solutions for banks and credit unions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead end-to-end design, execution, and analysis of marketing and product experiments, including A/B, multivariate, geo, and holdout testing
  • Define and manage the experimentation roadmap, including hypothesis development, prioritization, power analysis, and success metrics
  • Develop methodologies for lift measurement, incrementality testing, and causal inference
  • Establish experimentation standards, governance, and best practices
  • Build a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making with stakeholders
  • Design, build, validate, and deploy machine learning and Generative AI solutions using large-scale structured and unstructured data
  • Develop predictive, prescriptive, attribution, market mix, and uplift models
  • Lead hands-on model development, coding, testing, and production deployment
  • Create and maintain robust data pipelines for data quality, integrity, and scalability
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and analytical approaches
  • Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, IT, Risk, and Compliance teams to solve high-value business opportunities
  • Translate business challenges into testable hypotheses and analytical solutions
  • Present findings and recommendations to technical and executive audiences
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on experimentation, analytics, AI, and machine learning
  • Mentor and coach data scientists through technical guidance and best-practice sharing

Requirements:

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field required
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in data science, analytics, or machine learning roles
  • Significant hands-on experience working with large-scale data environments
  • Experience leading or serving as a senior technical contributor on experimentation, measurement, and advanced analytics initiatives
  • Experience translating complex business challenges into scalable analytical solutions
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and partnering with cross-functional teams
  • Deep expertise in marketing experimentation, A/B testing, multivariate testing, experimental design, metric development, and lift/incrementality measurement
  • Strong background in causal inference, hypothesis testing, statistical modeling, and power analysis
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying Market Mix Models, Attribution Models, and Uplift Models
  • Experience with Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Generative AI, and agent-based frameworks such as LangChain or LangSmith
  • Expertise in clustering, classification, regression, neural networks, anomaly detection, recommendation engines, and predictive modeling
  • Advanced programming skills in Python, Spark/PySpark, and SQL
  • Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar data lake environments
  • Experience with AWS and Azure cloud environments
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and Git
  • Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools; Tableau preferred
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and manage multiple priorities
  • Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
  • Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to data scientists and analytics professionals
  • Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, and attention to detail
  • Proven success collaborating across Product, Marketing, Sales, IT, Risk, Compliance, and other business functions

Benefits:

  • Annual bonus incentive program
  • Workplace flexibility
  • Equal Opportunity employer
  • Disability accommodations during the selection process