Vice President, Data Science/Engineering

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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

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
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    • JavaLanguages
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    • PythonLanguages

Location

Located at the steps of DTC along the I-25 corridor. Our location has a breathtaking view of the Rockies! Steps from bars, breweries, food, and RTD!

An Insider's view of SambaSafety

What's something quirky about your company?

When you’re here you’re family. Olive Garden stole that from SambaSafety. Instead of endless bread sticks there’s endless career development, opportunity & the chance to be part of something much bigger than yourself. To wake up everyday & sell something you believe in is rare. To do it with people you consider friends & mentors is a blessing.

John Russell

Account Executive, Transportation

What does your typical day look like?

There is a great work/life balance at Samba. Our organization makes an impact to businesses and their employees so we’re usually available, however being in the office 24/7 is not what Samba is about. The high level of trust that we’re all here to work hard and be the best trumps clocking in and working typical 9-5 hours.

Abby Abreu

Senior Account Manager

What are some things you learned at the company?

I started a couple months ago, and was extremely impressed, not only with how fast they came up with a new program to onboard people from home but also with the quality of the training and how impactful it was to a new person to the organization. The people and culture are amazing and II am very happy with my decision to come work for this company

Kyle McGaw

Account Executive, Mid-Market

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

Samba is full of collaborative, highly engaged, driven people continuously looking to outperform. We harness and direct this energy towards intelligent risk-taking leading to greater innovation. Our program encourages dialogue on the vast amount of ideas surfaced by our teams. Selected ideas are assigned to a team for completion.

Kevin Lawlor

VP of Human Resources

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

The environment we create is one of experimentation, where anyone can bring anything to the table as a solution to accomplish a task to enhance and grow our product. No idea is too mundane or question too simple to be discussed and used to grow our people as well as our product offering.

Tommy Cordova

Software Architect

What are SambaSafety Perks + Benefits

SambaSafety Benefits Overview

SambaSafety offers an amazing culture with a strong career path, an ability to have a deep impact on our success, a competitive salary, and benefits include excellent healthcare options, a health savings account with company contribution, flex spending accounts, 401 (k) with employer match and unlimited paid time off, paid holiday and volunteer days, tuition reimbursement, and products that help keep communities safer.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Participated in park clean-ups, taking disadvantaged children to the zoo, providing coats and shoes to the homeless and raised thousands of dollars through our Samba Sprint to support diversity orgs
Partners with nonprofits
Support non-profits that focus on furthering the advancement of diverse individuals
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Provides diversity & inclusion topics of interest training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
SambaUnited
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Gender neutral job descriptions, commitment to EEO, diversity applicant targets, post roles in diversity heavy sites, diverse interview panel
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Samba Sprints.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Reimburse internet up to $50/ month
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Tuition Reimbursement up to $5250 annually.
Continuing education available during work hours
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

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