Senior Director, Data Science & AI Strategy

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Data Science Leader to drive modeling across billions of records and guide AI strategy for executive leadership.

You will collaborate with software engineers, researchers, and architects to design experiments, validate models, and translate results into business guidance. Candidates should have 6+ years in ML, data analytics, and relational databases, with strong open-source and cloud experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in quantitative fields with data analytics experience
• 6+ years using open source languages for large-scale data analysis
• 6+ years of ML experience; 6+ years with relational databases

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive decisions through modeling
• Define an end state leveraging digital tech, cloud hosting, and open source software
• Translate complex modeling systems for senior leaders on strategy and risks
• Challenge and defend state-of-the-art decision-making systems with regulatory partners
• Shape practice of building ML models from design to deployment
• Oversee benchmark and challenger models to stress test decisions

Skills

Statistics

Data Analytics

Relational DBs

Open Source Languages

Machine Learning

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative field

Master's Degree in quantitative field or MBA with quantitative concentration

PhD in quantitative field

Tools

AWS

Job description

Capital One seeks a Data Science Leader to drive modeling across billions of records and guide AI strategy for executive leadership.

You will collaborate with software engineers, researchers, and architects to design experiments, validate models, and translate results into business guidance. Candidates should have 6+ years in ML, data analytics, and relational databases, with strong open-source and cloud experience.