Data Science Manager - Forecasting & Leadership

Risk Hub; Seattle, New York (WA, NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe seeks a Data Science Manager to lead a team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers, driving modeling, coaching, and the design process with a strong user focus. You will manage roadmaps, mentor staff, recruit talent, and communicate with senior leadership across Stripe.

This role requires advanced degrees and extensive experience building scalable ML systems and metrics-driven decision making, with a track record of cross-functional impact.

Qualifications

• PhD/MS/BS in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering).
• ≥3 years of direct management experience leading data science or ML teams, and 10 years of overall data science experience.
• Proven expertise in designing metrics and guiding business decisions with data.
• Technical expertise to drive clarity on architecture and strategic modeling decisions.
• Experience shipping machine learning systems and data products at scale.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and rigorous decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, coordinating with Stripe leaders to enhance data-driven decision making.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, analytics, operations, finance, and marketing.
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Manage a high-performing team of data scientists, supporting career growth and excellence.
• Recruit and onboard great data scientists in collaboration with Stripe's recruiting team.
• Contribute to broad data science initiatives as a member of Stripe's data science management team.

Skills

Data science leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Hands-on ML experience

Metrics design

Autonomy

Team development

Education

PhD/MS/BS in quantitative field

Job description

Stripe seeks a Data Science Manager to lead a team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers, driving modeling, coaching, and the design process with a strong user focus. You will manage roadmaps, mentor staff, recruit talent, and communicate with senior leadership across Stripe.

This role requires advanced degrees and extensive experience building scalable ML systems and metrics-driven decision making, with a track record of cross-functional impact.