Data Science Leader — AI for Scientific Discovery

RELX INC; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 136,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

Elsevier seeks a Data Science Leader to build, mentor, and inspire teams delivering advanced AI, ML, NLP, and knowledge-retrieval solutions for scientific discovery. You will guide product strategy, drive scalable data systems, and ensure responsible AI practices across domains.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, research, UX, and domain experts to shape the future of AI-enabled research tools used by clinicians, scientists, and institutions worldwide.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading data science, ML, NLP or related teams.
• Ability to translate complex scientific and business problems into data solutions.
• Strong collaboration with product, engineering, research and domain experts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing data science teams.
• Define and execute data science strategies to advance discovery and knowledge access.
• Drive AI capabilities across search, retrieval, NLP, and knowledge systems.
• Translate customer and scientific challenges into scalable solutions.
• Establish standards for experimentation, model quality, and responsible AI.

Skills

Data science leadership

Team building

ML, NLP, IR

Stakeholder influence

LLMs, RAG, semantic search

Job description

Elsevier seeks a Data Science Leader to build, mentor, and inspire teams delivering advanced AI, ML, NLP, and knowledge-retrieval solutions for scientific discovery. You will guide product strategy, drive scalable data systems, and ensure responsible AI practices across domains.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, research, UX, and domain experts to shape the future of AI-enabled research tools used by clinicians, scientists, and institutions worldwide.