UK Data Science Lead — Remote-First & Production ML

Hims & Hers; Greater London; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Full healthcare

Retirement planning

Remote-first

Competitive compensation

Employee discount

Utility stipend

Spending accounts

Job summary

Hims & Hers in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Data Science leader to help establish the UK team, shape its norms, and onboard new members. You will work with the US data science org to keep standards and context aligned across time zones while ensuring practical, impactful 0-to-1 builds transition into production.

You will review designs, set the technical bar, help trade off priorities, and own delivery of business outcomes.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in a quantitative field with hands-on empirical research experience.
• 8+ years in Data Science or ML Engineering with 2+ years in people leadership.
• Strong Python, SQL, and applied ML (regression/classification, time-series, causality).
• Production ML familiarity: cloud environments, CI/CD, MLOps.
• Experience leading multi-national teams across US/UK time zones.
• Ability to translate technical work into executive-level narratives.
• Proven ability to sequence roadmap tradeoffs under constraints.

Responsibilities

• Help establish the UK Data Science team and onboarding norms.
• Lead the UK team as a single function with the US org across time zones.
• Shape the roadmap with cross-functional stakeholders in marketing, ops, product, and finance.
• Review designs and code to avoid major technical missteps.
• Own delivery of 0-to-1 builds that ship and perform in production.

Skills

Python

SQL

Leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Distributed/International collab

Cloud/MLOps familiarity

Problem solving

Mentoring/people leadership

Education

BS/MS/PhD in quantitative field

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Git

Job description

Hims & Hers in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior Data Science leader to help establish the UK team, shape its norms, and onboard new members. You will work with the US data science org to keep standards and context aligned across time zones while ensuring practical, impactful 0-to-1 builds transition into production.

You will review designs, set the technical bar, help trade off priorities, and own delivery of business outcomes.