As the Manager of Data Science at Lightcast, you will lead and grow a team of data scientists and machine‑learning engineers to design, build, and productionize analytics and ML solutions that drive business outcomes. You will be a hands‑on technical leader who balances people management, project delivery, and strategic direction—partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to scale reliable, explainable, and measurable data products.
As the Manager of Data Science at Lightcast, you will lead and grow a team of data scientists and machine‑learning engineers to design, build, and productionize analytics and ML solutions that drive business outcomes. You will be a hands‑on technical leader who balances people management, project delivery, and strategic direction—partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to scale reliable, explainable, and measurable data products.
Major Responsibilities:
Coach, mentor, develop and lead a high performing data science team.
Plan projects, prioritize work, allocate resources, and track milestones to ensure timely delivery of data science projects and deliverables.
Provide technical guidance on model selection, model architecture, feature engineering, evaluation, and productionization.
Ensure best practices for model monitoring, versioning, CI/CD and MLOps.
Keep the team current with industry trends and appropriate new methods; sponsor prototyping and experimentation.
Serve as a technical mentor and subject-matter expert for complex modeling problems.
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field (Master’s/PhD preferred).
6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or analytics; 2+ years in a leadership or management role.
Proven track record of deploying ML/AI products to production with measurable business impact.
Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Skilled in statistical modeling, machine learning, and model efficiency techniques (e.g., quantization, distillation, pruning).
Proficient in Python and SQL; experienced in information retrieval, semantic search, and data visualization.
Knowledge of MLOps practices, model deployment, and maintenance in production environments.
Familiar with GPU acceleration, distributed training, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
Strong foundation in software engineering best practices and performance optimization.
Demonstrated leadership, project/resource management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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