Associate Director, Data Science & MLOps (Gaming)

Jagex: The RuneScape Company; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Minimum 6% Pension contributions

Employee Assistance Programme & onsite

Life Insurance

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Enhanced family leave policies

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays

Job summary

Jagex: The RuneScape Company in Cambridge seeks an Associate Director of Data Science to lead a team of data scientists, shape strategy, and own models from ideation to production.

You will collaborate with Player Support, Marketing, Analytics, and Game Teams to deploy robust ML solutions, manage the MLOps lifecycle, and ensure models stay reliable after launch. Flexible, predominantly remote with onsite attendance as needed.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading data science teams.
• Strong practical knowledge of ML, statistics, and evaluating models.
• Hands-on experience with production MLOps and model deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data scientists, set direction, manage workload.
• Build and own data science models for cross‑team use.
• Own the MLOps practice, including deployment, monitoring and retraining.
• Lead end‑to‑end data science initiatives from ideation to production.
• Serve as daily point of contact with stakeholders across teams.

Skills

Data science leadership

MLOps

Machine learning

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Education

PhD in Data Science

Tools

Python

TensorFlow / PyTorch

SQL

Experimentation

Job description

Jagex: The RuneScape Company in Cambridge seeks an Associate Director of Data Science to lead a team of data scientists, shape strategy, and own models from ideation to production.

You will collaborate with Player Support, Marketing, Analytics, and Game Teams to deploy robust ML solutions, manage the MLOps lifecycle, and ensure models stay reliable after launch. Flexible, predominantly remote with onsite attendance as needed.