Senior GenAI & Commercial Data Scientist (AIOps/MLOps)

Nestlé Purina; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401k: Company match

Performance-based incentives

Competitive total rewards package

Job summary

Nestlé Purina in St. Louis, MO is seeking an Expert Commercial Data Scientist to shape AI-enabled commercial outcomes. This onsite role partners with marketing and sales to translate advanced analytics into scalable, value-driven solutions.

You will build, deploy, and operationalize models end-to-end, guiding business leaders on high-value opportunities and turning strategic priorities into practical data science implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Marketing Analytics, Applied Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years advising senior business stakeholders, shaping ambiguous strategic problems, influencing decisions, and translating AI concepts into outcomes.
• 7+ years professional experience, including 5+ years applying data science, analytics, or ML to marketing, commerce, or customer-facing areas.

Responsibilities

• Advise brand, marketing, sales, and category leaders by reframing problems and translating priorities into scalable AI solutions.
• Lead design, validation, deployment, and adoption of advanced analytics and GenAI solutions for consumer-facing challenges.
• Design and operationalize GenAI capabilities, including RAG pipelines, AI agents, copilots, and multimodal AI.
• Direct deployment strategy with AIOps/MLOps, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Create reusable frameworks and accelerators to improve scalability and maintainability of AI solutions.
• Mentor junior data scientists and explore agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and autonomous decision-making systems.

Skills

Advising senior stakeholders

Strategic problem framing

Business impact focus

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Marketing Analytics, Applied Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s or PhD in Data Science, Analytics, Marketing (preferred) or MBA

Tools

AIOps/MLOps

GenAI

RAG pipelines

AI agents

Copilots

Multimodal AI

Knowledge graphs

Agentic AI

Job description

Nestlé Purina in St. Louis, MO is seeking an Expert Commercial Data Scientist to shape AI-enabled commercial outcomes. This onsite role partners with marketing and sales to translate advanced analytics into scalable, value-driven solutions.

You will build, deploy, and operationalize models end-to-end, guiding business leaders on high-value opportunities and turning strategic priorities into practical data science implementations.