Lead Data Scientist - Marketing AI & Personalization

Maya; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Maya is seeking a Data Science Lead to drive AI, ML, and customer intelligence strategies across its ecosystem. You will lead a team of Data Scientists to build and deploy advanced analytics, segmentation, propensity, and recommendation models, collaborating with Marketing, Product, Growth, and Engineering to scale impact.

You will translate business goals into scalable AI-powered solutions, oversee model governance and performance, and mentor junior staff while shaping Maya's analytics roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI, including production-grade solutions.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing high-performing Data Science teams.
• Experience building and deploying 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.
• Experience within fintech, banking, digital financial services, or large-scale consumer technology companies is highly preferred.
• Product scaling, experimentation, and growth analytics experience is a plus.
• R&D experience in emerging AI technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Scientists to develop and deploy advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions across Maya's ecosystem.
• Translate business objectives into scalable AI-powered solutions and technical roadmaps.
• Define project scopes, delivery plans, success metrics, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Measure and communicate the business impact of AI and machine learning initiatives.
• Advocate for AI adoption and advanced analytics throughout the organization.
• Drive innovation by promoting emerging technologies, methodologies, and algorithms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and execute a comprehensive AI and customer intelligence strategy.
• Partner with Engineering and ML Engineering teams to operationalize and scale Data Science solutions.

Skills

Team leadership

Data science expertise

Marketing analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics / Computer Science / Mathematics / Data Science / Engineering

Tools

Marketing Platforms

Customer Data Platforms (CDPs)

Campaign Management Systems

Customer engagement platforms

Job description

Maya is seeking a Data Science Lead to drive AI, ML, and customer intelligence strategies across its ecosystem. You will lead a team of Data Scientists to build and deploy advanced analytics, segmentation, propensity, and recommendation models, collaborating with Marketing, Product, Growth, and Engineering to scale impact.

You will translate business goals into scalable AI-powered solutions, oversee model governance and performance, and mentor junior staff while shaping Maya's analytics roadmap.