Senior AI Platform & Data Enablement Lead

Academy Sports and Outdoors; Katy (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Sports + Outdoors in Katy, TX seeks a Senior Director of Data Science to drive analytics strategy for omnichannel retail. You will lead a team of data scientists, partner with engineering, marketing, and IT to deploy production-grade ML solutions and scalable data platforms.

The role emphasizes governance, responsible AI, and data-domain enablement for customer analytics and personalization. Experience in retail analytics, strong leadership, and ability to influence across a matrixed

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data science, advanced analytics, ML, or related fields.
• 4+ years leading teams or major technical initiatives.
• 3+ years in B2C/retail/e-commerce analytics.
• 3+ years deploying production-grade analytics or ML solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve data, feature, and modeling standards, MLOps and production-ready analytics/ML solutions.
• Translate customer, marketing, and omnichannel needs into scalable, platform-aligned patterns.
• Governance, quality & responsible AI, embedding fairness, trust and compliance by design.
• Lead Adobe Analytics and Quantum Metrics data capture; own customer data domains and data flows.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

MLOps

Customer analytics

Influence across matrixed orgs

Education

Bachelor’s in engineering/Statistics/Data Science/CS

Master’s in Analytics/Data Science (preferred)

Tools

Adobe Analytics

Quantum Metrics

Bridg

Job description

Academy Sports + Outdoors in Katy, TX seeks a Senior Director of Data Science to drive analytics strategy for omnichannel retail. You will lead a team of data scientists, partner with engineering, marketing, and IT to deploy production-grade ML solutions and scalable data platforms.

The role emphasizes governance, responsible AI, and data-domain enablement for customer analytics and personalization. Experience in retail analytics, strong leadership, and ability to influence across a matrixed