Data Scientist — AI-Driven Retail Analytics

The Home Depot Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Semi-annual bonuses

Deferred Profit-Sharing Program

Comprehensive benefits

Stock purchase discount (15%)

Merit-based salary increases

Job summary

The Home Depot Canada, through its Askuity division, seeks a Data Scientist to design, build, and deploy advanced analytics and ML solutions that drive measurable impact for The Home Depot and its suppliers. You will convert complex retail and supply chain challenges into data-driven strategies, balancing technical depth with business insight in a fast-paced environment.

You will work on AI strategies, time-series forecasting, and LLM-based analytics, partnering with product teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field.
• 3+ years of experience in data science or analytics.
• Experience with retail, merchandising, supply chain analytics.
• Strong communication skills to present complex analyses to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in product management or cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Apply generative AI and retrieval-augmented search to enable natural language analytics and self-serve insights for suppliers and merchants.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive models (e.g., anomaly detection, forecasting, regression, classification).
• Build, evaluate, and deploy ML models in Vertex AI / GCP with production-grade MLOps practices.
• Engineer robust feature pipelines in Airflow and design reusable data products for analytics and ML use cases.
• Partner with product managers, merchants, and suppliers to design experiments (A/B testing, causal inference) and measure business impact.
• Translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations through visualizations (Looker) and storytelling.

Skills

Python

SQL

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Vertex AI

Looker

GCP

Statistical Modeling

MLOps

GenAI/LLMs

Airflow

Education

Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Airflow

BigQuery

Looker

Vertex AI

GCP

Job description

The Home Depot Canada, through its Askuity division, seeks a Data Scientist to design, build, and deploy advanced analytics and ML solutions that drive measurable impact for The Home Depot and its suppliers. You will convert complex retail and supply chain challenges into data-driven strategies, balancing technical depth with business insight in a fast-paced environment.

You will work on AI strategies, time-series forecasting, and LLM-based analytics, partnering with product teams to deliver