Description :

Job Description : Manager - Data Science

Career Level : Manager

Quick Summary : 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 directionpartnering 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.

Skills :

- Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Large Language Models (LLMs)

- Machine Learning & Statistical Modeling

- Programming & Data Manipulation (Python, SQL)

- Information Retrieval & Semantic Search

- Data Visualization & Communication

- MLOps

- AWS

- Software Engineering Practices

Abilities :

- Advanced proficiency in statistical analysis & machine learning

- Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI (GenAI), and Large Language Models (LLMs)

- Experience with model efficiency techniques for LLMs like quantization, distillation, pruning etc.

- Familiarity with GPU acceleration and distributed training methods

- Proficiency in programming Python and SQL

- Familiarity with cloud platforms and tools e.g. AWS

- Experience deploying and maintaining models in production (MLOps)

- Proven ability to lead and manage data science teams

- Project and resource management skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration

- Strong problem-solving and performance-optimization focus

Education and Experience :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field. Masters or PhD preferred but not required.

- 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or analytics, with at least 2 years in a people?management or team?lead role.

- Demonstrated track record of shipping ML/data products to production and driving measurable business impact.

About Lightcast :

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) and Boston (MA) and 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.