Senior Data Science Leader - Production ML & AI

Hawthorne Gardening Co.; United States; Remote; USD 176,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Live Total Health program

401K with company match

Stock purchase discount

Adoption assistance

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

ScottsMiracle-Gro seeks a data science leader to guide a team turning commercial questions into production ML and analytics, pricing elasticities, demand forecasts, and audience insights. You will nurture a high-rigor ML culture and ensure models ship into production with solid engineering foundations.

You will coach data scientists and senior analysts, establish standards, and partner with Data Engineering and build teams to scale impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong ML foundations and ability to critique methods (forecasting, elasticity, boosting).
• Production-quality Python; reproducible pipelines; MLOps, CI/CD, and governance at scale.
• Agentic fluency with AI tools, LLM eval, embeddings, vector search and agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a data science team; set technical standards and recruit as needed.
• Own a mature ML lifecycle from experiment to production and monitoring to retirement.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Build teams; communicate impact to technical and business audiences.

Skills

ML foundations

ML engineering

Agentic fluency

People leadership

Business acumen

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Python

Git

Containers

APIs

Job description

ScottsMiracle-Gro seeks a data science leader to guide a team turning commercial questions into production ML and analytics, pricing elasticities, demand forecasts, and audience insights. You will nurture a high-rigor ML culture and ensure models ship into production with solid engineering foundations.

You will coach data scientists and senior analysts, establish standards, and partner with Data Engineering and build teams to scale impact across the organization.