Applied Data Science Manager: Lead Production ML

Appfolio; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio, a technology leader in real estate, seeks a senior data scientist to own signal modeling and the Next Best Action layer for GTM teams. You will lead data science services, forecast automations, and ensure adoption and explainability across business units.

You will guide end-to-end model development, deployment, monitoring, and retraining, while mentoring a team of data scientists and collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field with 8+ years building and deploying predictive models in production for business stakeholders.
• 2+ years leading data scientists as a people manager or technical lead.
• Strong programming background with Python and SQL; experience bringing models to production.
• Experience developing, deploying, monitoring, and retraining end-to-end classification and propensity models.
• Experience building and evaluating LLM-based products in production (agents or NLP analytics).
• Experience with cloud data warehouses and orchestration tools (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow) and CRM data like Salesforce.

Responsibilities

• Own signal modeling and scoring logic for all AppFolio products and co-create Next Best Action recommendations.
• Own shared data science services, forecasting automations, and partner adoption & explainability.
• Set coding standards for the Cerberus model fleet and manage deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
• Review pull requests and ensure quality and risk of models, analyses, and automations.
• Coordinate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Finance to set priorities and drive roadmap execution.

Skills

Python

SQL

People management

Model deployment

Experiment design

LLM products

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Salesforce

Job description

AppFolio, a technology leader in real estate, seeks a senior data scientist to own signal modeling and the Next Best Action layer for GTM teams. You will lead data science services, forecast automations, and ensure adoption and explainability across business units.

You will guide end-to-end model development, deployment, monitoring, and retraining, while mentoring a team of data scientists and collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Finance.