Lead Data Scientist - AI, Personalization & Growth

Maya; Manila; On-site; PHP 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Maya is seeking a Data Science Lead to drive its AI and customer intelligence strategy. You will lead a team of data scientists to develop scalable ML solutions that boost acquisition, engagement, and revenue across Maya’s ecosystem.

You will partner with Marketing, Product, Growth, Engineering, and CRM to translate business goals into measurable data-driven initiatives, establish governance, and ensure production-grade deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, CS, Math, Data Science, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years in Data Science, ML, or AI with production deployments.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience building clustering, propensity, recommendation, classification, and predictive models.
• Experience supporting marketing, growth, CRM, lifecycle, personalization, or customer analytics initiatives.
• Experience partnering with Product, Marketing, Growth, and Engineering stakeholders.
• Experience with Marketing Platforms, CDPs, Campaign Management Systems, or customer engagement platforms is highly preferred.
• Fintech or digital financial services experience is highly preferred.
• Product scaling, experimentation, and growth analytics experience is a plus.
• R&D in emerging AI technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and deployment of AI, ML, and analytics solutions for customer acquisition and growth.
• Translate business challenges into data science roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Design customer intelligence and marketing analytics initiatives (segmentation, propensity modeling, recommendations, LTV, next-best-action).
• Ensure model development standards: validation, explainability, governance, monitoring, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Growth, CRM to operationalize models across journeys and platforms.
• Drive adoption of emerging AI technologies and experimentation frameworks.
• Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership with business impact.
• Mentor and grow the Data Science team through coaching and capability building.

Skills

Data science leadership

ML model deployment

Marketing analytics

Stakeholder collaboration

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

CDPs

Campaign Management Systems

Marketing Platforms

Job description

Maya is seeking a Data Science Lead to drive its AI and customer intelligence strategy. You will lead a team of data scientists to develop scalable ML solutions that boost acquisition, engagement, and revenue across Maya’s ecosystem.

You will partner with Marketing, Product, Growth, Engineering, and CRM to translate business goals into measurable data-driven initiatives, establish governance, and ensure production-grade deployments.