Remote Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed

6sense; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K match

Paid holidays

Self-care days

Paid time off (PTO)

Stock options

Job summary

6sense is seeking a Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed, to lead customer engagements and tailor predictive models for strategic clients. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding engagements and learning back into product.

You’ll collaborate with business leaders and engineers, set direction for multiple projects, and ensure measurable improvements in customers’ pipelines through production-grade ML solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and deploying ML models in production.
• Experience working directly with customers on data projects (consulting, client-site, forward-deployed).
• Fluent in Python and SQL; comfortable with messy data and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end customer engagements, from discovery to production solution.
• Collaborate with marketing and revenue ops teams to align data and goals.
• Tailor models to client needs and define success metrics.
• Guide engagement through professional services and customer success.
• Communicate results clearly to executives and engineers.

Skills

ML deployment

Customer-facing

Python

SQL

Tree-based models

Backtesting

Model evaluation

Communication

Product mindset

Engagement management

Tools

SingleStore

Hive

Spark on AWS

Job description

6sense is seeking a Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed, to lead customer engagements and tailor predictive models for strategic clients. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding engagements and learning back into product.

You’ll collaborate with business leaders and engineers, set direction for multiple projects, and ensure measurable improvements in customers’ pipelines through production-grade ML solutions.