Senior Data Science Leader: Production ML & Impact

Hawthorne Gardening Co.; Marysville (OH); On-site; USD 175,700 - 206,700; Full time

Job summary

Scotts Miracle-Gro in Marysville, OH is seeking a Sr. Manager Data Science to lead a team delivering production ML and analytics, pricing and elasticities, demand and POS forecasting, and models powering AI agents.

You will own the ML portfolio and coach data scientists, driving a mature ML lifecycle from experiment to production. The role collaborates with Product, Data Engineering, and analytics partners to tie modeling work to measurable business outcomes and forecast accuracy, margin, and

Qualifications

• Strong ML foundations and statistics for forecasting and modeling.
• ML engineering: production-quality Python, reproducible pipelines.
• MLOps: CI/CD, model/versioning, monitoring at scale.
• Agentic fluency with AI tools and agent workflows.
• People leadership: coach and grow a data science team.
• Business acumen: tie modeling to measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Frame ambiguous business questions as tractable modeling problems.
• Deliver models across time-series forecasting, elasticity modeling, regression and classification.
• Define evaluation metrics and golden datasets up front; ensure reproducible results.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Data Engineering to deploy into production.

Skills

ML foundations

ML engineering

MLOps

Agentic fluency

People leadership

Business acumen

Education

Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Databricks

Google Cloud

Job description

Scotts Miracle-Gro in Marysville, OH is seeking a Sr. Manager Data Science to lead a team delivering production ML and analytics, pricing and elasticities, demand and POS forecasting, and models powering AI agents.

You will own the ML portfolio and coach data scientists, driving a mature ML lifecycle from experiment to production. The role collaborates with Product, Data Engineering, and analytics partners to tie modeling work to measurable business outcomes and forecast accuracy, margin, and