Principal Data Scientist - Data Intelligence

black.ai; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in employee experience is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to shape the data science function and develop impactful AI features. You will lead initiatives across teams, mentor others, and have significant influence in leveraging data for enhancing employee engagement. This role offers a competitive salary and a supportive company culture focused on professional development.

Benefits

Employee Share Options Program

Coaching and personal development programs

Mental wellbeing support

Monthly Camper Life Allowance

Team-building budgets

Quarterly wellbeing pauses

Extended year-end breaks

Exceptional parental leave

Social Impact Days

Medical insurance

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data science and ancillary skills.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in Data Science.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Drive data strategy alignment across teams.
• Mentor Data Scientists and ML engineers.
• Ensure effective communication and knowledge-sharing.

Skills

Data Engineering

Data Analytics

Software Engineering

Stakeholder Management

Facilitation Skills

Mentoring

Tools

SQL

Redshift

Postgres

LangChain

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Job description

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist to influence and drive the creation of actionable Insights and impactful AI features powering Culture Amps advanced product features. We have a unique, world class data set covering employee engagement and performance globally. This role will be a key part of the data science leadership team and as the most senior individual contributor, you will play a crucial role in shaping and driving an uplift in problem definition, data exploration, insight generation, metrics formation, AI feature development and evaluation both in the data group and the wider company. You will be a master of your craft, and enjoy teaching and mentoring others to maximise the impact of the specialist data science function.

You will

• Collaborate across team and camp boundaries to drive alignment on our data strategy and that data science techniques are being effectively applied across all our delivery activities.
• Ensure Data Scientists and their teams are supported, productive, enjoy their work, have clear remits, and help them to resolve issues to improve culture and engagement to maximise their impact on our mission.
• Ensure a steady flow of consistent communication within and across all of our product groups. Facilitate knowledge-sharing, plan visibility and alignment of large initiatives between the teams, Directors and VPs
• Mentor the Data Scientists and ML engineers in the Data group, to support their needs and development, and drive consistent, sustainable excellence in data science.
• Be part of the Data Science Leadership Team that contributes to strategy as well as maturing our data science practice.

You have

• Significant practitioner experience across data science, as well as competency in ancillary skills: data engineering, data analytics, software engineering.
• Demonstrated effective thought leadership in Data Science to influence a software business across all areas of data science including: research, hypothesis testing, understanding and leveraging data, evaluating data and AI features, metrics definition and experimentation.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills - You make clear and timely decisions in the face of many nuanced trade offs and varied opinions.
• Experience in a range of tools sets comparable with our own: Database technologies: SQL, Redshift, Postgres, DBT, Dask, airflow etc. AI Feature Development: LangChain, LangSmith, pandas, numpy, sci kit learn, scipy, hugging face, etc. Data visualization tools such as plotly, seaborn, streamlit etc

You are

• Able to chart a path on a long term journey through much complexity, change and ambiguity.
• A clear communicator who can share a compelling plan and the reasoning behind your decisions, ensuring everyone with varying degrees of experience and context can understand your message and approach.
• A natural coach and teacher - You always make time to coach and teach all those around you. This includes data scientists in your group, your peers and those you report to.
• A Driver - You get things done and you like to roll up your sleeves and get to work, pushing a number of initiatives forward simultaneously.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.

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