This is a remote position.
Head of Data Science
Come and join us on our mission to make our client
The Home of the Outdoors; the place where every adventure begins.
Build the future of outdoor adventure with us!
Evolving and expanding the data science function as a strategic contributor to business and product decisions across the whole company. We are looking for a hands-on data science leader to deliver the next evolution of our data science capabilities.
About the adventure
We’re in business to help people have better, safer adventures in the mountains. Your role will contribute to this by designing an unrivalled user experience for our mobile and web applications.
Our client is the world’s only global 3D map built for outdoor adventure, trusted by the World’s top adventurers, athletes and mountain guides. We’re building the largest community of skiers, hikers, mountain bikers, trail runners and mountaineers around the world and enabling them to plan, experience and share their adventures.
As the Head of Data Science, you’ll be joining a very small data team who move fast and work closely together on the mission: to make our client the Home of the Outdoors - the place where every adventure begins. We want to democratise access to adventure and make the experience simple, accessible and shareable.
We’re looking for someone who is as passionate about the outdoors as they are about their craft: someone who will be living and breathing the product with deep empathy for the needs of our users, yet able to rapidly design and help build a product to scale our product to support 10x growth over the next year
A team of 35 people and life with our client still feels very much like a startup. To be at home here you should be comfortable moving fast in ambiguity, and able to create an organisation and structure to help us scale the business. With ambitious goals and we’re looking for someone who is up to the challenge.
Operating a flexible remote working policy - pandemic permitting. You will be based out of one of their hubs in Chamonix, Berlin, Vilnius or Southern Britain and have the choice to mix working from home with time at the office, but should be no more than 2hrs from one of the hub offices to maximise the opportunity to spend time together as a team.
In their office you’ll find skis, muddy boots, full suspension bikes and ice axes instead of ping pong tables and fuzzball. They say there are no friends on a powder day but with our client we hope you’ll do a few runs to test the latest app build before you hit the office.
The Role
Currently with a very small data science team, with a heavy focus on supporting our product development process. The next stage of evolution for the team is to broaden the scope of the service as the company focusses more on growing our user base and revenues.
Because we are still a relatively small, early-stage company, we need leaders who are still very much hands-on doers as well as leaders, and this role is no exception.
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The Person
· The Skills
· Data visualisation / BI tools
o Previous experience in Metabase and Mixpanel is a plus
· Knowledge of data warehouse architecture principles
o Data architecture and database design
o Hands-on knowledge in SQL and working in RDBMS, ideally PostgreSQL + PostGIS is a big plus
· Scientific/statistical programming with for e.g. Python, R
· MSc or PhD in quantitative field e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Bioinformatics etc.
Great packages and benefits including
NEXT STEPS
If you are impressed with what you have seen and would like to discuss opportunities to join the growing team then please forward a full CV along with availability to interview/start and salary expectations for Immediate feedback and a confidential chat!
Jerry
Booz Allen Hamilton
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