Lead Data Scientist

Lead technical roadmap and delivery of ML and GenAI capabilities for retail pricing, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and markdown recommendations. Architect GenAI agents and set model/MLOps standards, mentor distributed data science teams, partner with product and engineering, and present AI strategy to executives and customers. The summary above was generated by AI

DemandTec is a retail analytics and demand science platform used by grocery retailers and CPG suppliers to run pricing, promotions, markdowns, and trade fund decisions on connected, AI-powered intelligence rather than siloed point solutions. Backed by Longshore Capital, we're modernizing a market-leading core into an AI/ML-native, composable platform - with a live network of 7,800+ connected CPG suppliers, the largest and hardest-to-replicate asset in the category.

We're building the next generation of our solution platform for retail and analytics: GenAI-powered agents, real-time decisioning, and connected optimization across pricing, promotions, markdowns, and trade funds. This team sits at the center of that build., * Own the technical roadmap for ML/AI models powering price optimization, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and markdown recommendations.

• Architect and lead development of GenAI-powered agents and copilots (e.g., pricing copilots, demand intelligence agents) in partnership with engineering and product.

• Set technical standards for model development, validation, and MLOps across the data science organization.

• Mentor, coach, and grow a distributed team of data scientists, including direct oversight of the China and Poland-based team.

• Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate retail and trade-promotion business problems into Data Science solutions.

• Make build-vs-buy calls on LLM/GenAI tooling and vendor platforms together with ENG.

• Present model performance, technical roadmap, and AI strategy to executive leadership and, where relevant, customers and prospects.

• Track emerging AI/ML techniques and assess their applicability to retail and CPG use cases., Artificial Intelligence * Automotive * Computer Vision * Information Technology * Internet of Things * Logistics * Software Lead the evaluation and data-quality strategy for advanced AI, vision, and perception systems. Define metrics, failure taxonomies, and human-review protocols; translate evaluation findings into data strategy, experiment priorities, and product release decisions. Partner with model, simulation, and platform teams to drive production-readiness and continuous quality improvements. Top Skills: Computer VisionDataset DesignDeep LearningGenerative AiGeospatial AiModel EvaluationMultimodal AiObject DetectionPerception SystemsSegmentationSimulationSynthetic Data EvaluationTemporal ConsistencyVideo Quality Metrics Forward Financing, Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

• 7+ years of experience in data science or applied ML, including 2+ years leading data scientists or a technical team.

• Proven track record shipping production ML models at scale.

• Experience designing, building, and shipping models for price elasticity, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and similar retail/CPG use cases.

• Strong communication skills - able to translate technical work into business impact for executives and customers.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and machine learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).

• Familiarity with GenAI frameworks (e.g., LLMs, Dify, LangChain, RAG pipelines).

• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).

• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and modern MLOps practices.

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