VP Data Science

VP Data Science
As we build the team, we require a VP of Data Science to help build a multi site data science team. Data science will form a key part of our success – we need someone to define exactly how DS will drive that success. As VP DS you will be responsible for building a team across our London and Tel Aviv sites and staffed feature development teams with data scientists. You will be responsible for a high level roadmap and strategy for data science withing innovation and use of new techniques whilst also using more established approaches to quickly fill gaps.
As the most senior Data Scientist at the company you will be the outward facing, public embodiment of data science.
Main Responsibilities:
Work autonomously with little management oversight. This is a leadership role.
Work with other teams inside and outside engineering
Desired Skills & Experiences:
Broad knowledge of key DS and ML techniques: NLP, image processing, video comprehension, visualisation, recommendation and search
Experience of scale ups – quickly building teams of highly skilled and experienced data science teams
Strong diplomatic and influencing skills
Worked within a cross functional development team as a data scientist