Senior Director of Data
Overview
Glossier is a people-powered beauty ecosystem, leveraging unique, innovative, and engaging digital and offline experiences to fuel our growth. We leverage the power of personal narrative to own the beauty conversation and commerce on the internet. To meet our ambitious goals, we are looking for a leader to lead Glossier's Data Science, Analytics and Data/BI engineering.
Responsibilities
At Glossier, data is a key driver in building differentiated customer experiences and in driving decision making for stakeholders across the organization. In this leadership role reporting to the CTO, you will build our vision and strategy for Data Science and Data infrastructure. You are driven, excited, and passionate about tackling difficult, ambiguous, high-impact problems that have never been solved before. Lastly, you will serve as a thought leader for the entire organization on data & analytics topics and will need to work with business and technology leaders across the company.
You will lead a team of Data & ML Scientists, Data Analysts, BI and Data engineers. You will focus on solving problems in a broad set of areas such as Growth, Personalization, Pricing, Forecasting etc by leveraging predictive models, machine learning & econometrics. You will also build the data pipelines & platform to ensure high availability of data, aggregation, visualization and develop key business insights. The role requires medium to long term headcount planning and the ability to attract & develop top talent in data science and data engineering areas.
Experience
8+ years of experience in business intelligence, big data analytics, statistical methods and machine learning techniques including expertise in creating machine learning solutions that provide solutions to business and technical problems
Experience with multiple Data Science disciplines including descriptive analytics, optimization, probability, hypothesis testing, regression, forecasting and machine learning
Self-sufficiency in data analysis (such as R, Python)
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven ability to harmonize discordant views, strong executive presence
Demonstrated ability to lead scientific teams that delivers data analytics and machine learning solutions (new scientific, analytical, or predictive models) to improve business outcomes
4+ years of relevant experience managing science teams & managers.
Able to guide the team to make the right scientific or technical trade-offs to meet long term/short-term business needs
(Preferred) PhD degree in Math, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
About Glossier
Glossier is a beauty company that lives in NYC, is sold on the internet, and promotes a skincare first philosophy that celebrates beauty in real life.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of Glossier not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, caregiver status, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignment, benefits, layoff, and termination.