Deputy Chief Data & ML Officer (Remote)

Social Discovery Ventures; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote opportunity

Vacation 28 days

Wellness days 7

Bonuses up to $5000

Training allowance 50%

Job summary

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Deputy Chief Data Officer to drive cross-functional ML, analytics, and data platform initiatives. You will lead high-priority programs, align stakeholders, and ensure timely delivery with clear ownership and governance.

The role emphasizes measurable business impact and data-driven decision making. Ideal candidates bring 6–10+ years in data/ML plus 3–5+ years in leadership, with product-company experience, strong English and Russian communication, and deep

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years in data, analytics, or ML domains, including 3–5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record delivering cross-functional projects involving ML, data platforms, experimentation, and analytics.
• Experience in product companies (not only consulting environments).
• Strong understanding of product analytics, A/B testing, unit economics, and key business metrics.
• Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle — from ideation to production.
• Familiarity with data platforms, data quality management, SLA processes, and self-service BI/analytics.
• Strong execution skills: project decomposition, planning, prioritization, and delivery management.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of cross-functional strategic initiatives across ML, experimentation, and data platform domains.
• Lead 2–3 high-priority initiatives during the first 3 months: define scope, align stakeholders, establish ownership, and drive delivery to measurable outcomes.
• Ensure predictable execution through clear planning, coordination, and delivery management.
• Unblock stalled or ambiguous projects by clarifying ownership, resolving dependencies, escalating risks early, and driving initiatives through completion.
• Build and operate an effective execution framework: monthly business reviews, quarterly planning, retrospectives, project reviews, and escalation processes.
• Establish a single source of truth for project status, risks, commitments, and delivery tracking.
• Improve the experimentation ecosystem by increasing decision-making speed, standardizing evaluation and rollout processes, and reducing operational chaos/manual work.
• Accelerate ML delivery cycles by reducing time from idea → experiment → production and coordinating dependencies across ML, backend, analytics, and product teams.
• Ensure ML initiatives deliver measurable business impact, not only technical outcomes.
• Strengthen functional leads (Product Analytics, Data Engineering, ML, UX) through prioritization support, execution discipline, feedback, and managerial coaching.
• Increase ownership, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration across teams.
• Own operational excellence of the function, including data freshness, uptime, SLA adherence, and delivery predictability.

Skills

Data analytics

ML familiarity

Cross-functional leadership

Product analytics

AB testing

English language

Russian language

Coordination

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Deputy Chief Data Officer to drive cross-functional ML, analytics, and data platform initiatives. You will lead high-priority programs, align stakeholders, and ensure timely delivery with clear ownership and governance.

The role emphasizes measurable business impact and data-driven decision making. Ideal candidates bring 6–10+ years in data/ML plus 3–5+ years in leadership, with product-company experience, strong English and Russian communication, and deep