Data Science Manager: Lead ML, Strategy & Growth

Noraa & Co.; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Noraa & Co. is seeking a hands-on Data Science Manager to lead analytical and ML capabilities that drive business growth, performance, and customer experience. You will translate complex problems into practical data solutions and build a capable team.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Technology, and business stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities and oversee end-to-end data science lifecycle, ensuring production-ready and explainable models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Physics, or another quantitative discipline.
• Proven experience leading data science, advanced analytics, ML, or decision-science initiatives.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience coaching and managing data science professionals.
• Strong practical understanding of statistical analysis, experimental design, predictive modelling, ML, and data storytelling.
• Professional proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with large, production-relevant data sets.
• Experience translating business needs into analytical ML solutions with measurable impact.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders in fast-paced tech or operations environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing data science and analytics team.
• Define and execute a practical data science roadmap aligned with business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Technology, and commercial stakeholders to identify high-impact data opportunities.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytics, experimentation, forecasting, optimisation, segmentation, predictive modelling, or ML initiatives.
• Oversee the end-to-end data science lifecycle: framing, data exploration, feature development, model design, validation, deployment and monitoring.
• Establish standards for data quality, experimentation, statistical rigour, model validation, documentation, reproducibility, and responsible data use.
• Ensure models are reliable, scalable, explainable, and production-ready; collaborate on pipelines and deployment.
• Communicate insights, risks, and model performance to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of data-informed decision-making across business and operations functions.
• Define success metrics for data science initiatives and ROI.

Skills

Python

SQL

Leadership

Communication

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Noraa & Co. is seeking a hands-on Data Science Manager to lead analytical and ML capabilities that drive business growth, performance, and customer experience. You will translate complex problems into practical data solutions and build a capable team.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Technology, and business stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities and oversee end-to-end data science lifecycle, ensuring production-ready and explainable models.