Vice President, Data Science/Engineering
What we do:
Recognized as one the Top 100 Tech Companies by Builtin.com and over 4.4-star review on Glassdoor, SambaSafety® is the pioneer of driver risk management software in North America. Trusted by over 2 million subscribed drivers; thousands of businesses look to Sambasafety to provide the most powerful, advanced, intuitive, and impactful risk solution platform on the market. SambaSafety is growing at an incredible rate with high employee engagement. It’s an exciting time to be at Samba. Now is the right time to join our high performing culture. We hope to see you here!
What You’ll Do:
As the Vice President of Data Science and Data Engineering for SambaSafety you will provide technical leadership and hands on expertise by aligning business processes using industry standards, modern capabilities and agile processes for our software as a service software solution. Provides leadership in the development of new data strategy, implementation and modernizing our existing data capabilities. Leverage new and creative ways to help grow our digital business. Work with our team of data scientists to research and uncover new opportunities for our company to leverage through our existing data sources in addition to identifying new source of information to go after and consume. Develops the team by providing technology vision and leadership, career development, and mentoring in design, framework and platform decisions. Defines and communicates delivery plans, manage team budgets, and partners with leaders in key business functions to deliver value through efficient use of development resources.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own our corporate and product data strategy from an engineering perspective
- Build and grow our talented team of data engineers and data scientists
- Work with leaders across the company to define and execute on our growth for the
- Work with product management to come up with delightful experiences for customers
- Partner with architecture and development on new data strategies for aggregation, processing and productization related to our roadmap
- Effectively communicate the strategy to our internal teams and leaders and partner with product management to evangelize these initiatives
- Build and lead expert data science teams comprising both leaders and individual contributors and figure out ways to help them flourish.
- This position involves frequent travel to various company locations.
What you’ll need:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own our corporate and product data strategy from an engineering perspective
- Build and grow our talented team of data engineers and data scientists
- Work with leaders across the company to define and execute on our growth for the
- Work with product management to come up with delightful experiences for customers
- Partner with architecture and development on new data strategies for aggregation, processing and productization related to our roadmap
- Effectively communicate the strategy to our internal teams and leaders and partner with product management to evangelize these initiatives
- Build and lead expert data science teams comprising both leaders and individual contributors and figure out ways to help them flourish.
- This position involves frequent travel to various company locations.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related career experience.
- You are skilled at operating in a complex, cross-functional and rapidly growing organization where your teams need to collaborate and integrate with other teams across many disciplines.
- Experience defining technical architecture and strategy to support our data science and analytics needs
- 10+ years of experience in software development and leadership in SaaS
Technical background in applied data science, spanning so