Sr. Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed

6sense; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401K employer matching

Paid holidays

Self-care days

Paid time off

Job summary

6sense is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to lead model development for strategic customers. You will tailor, retrain, and validate predictive models that guide accounts and buyers, often juggling multiple engagements with production data.

You will build client-ready deliverables, validate models with backtests, and work with an MLOps engineer to bring solutions into production for scalable use across customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and deploying machine learning models in production.
• Fluent in Python and SQL with real-world datasets.
• Experience working with or for customers on their data.

Responsibilities

• Lead models for customer engagements and backtests showing business value.
• Retrain and tune models for account profiling and scoring.
• Deliver explainable results and deliverables (score files, decks, docs).
• Collaborate with MLOps to productionize solutions for ongoing use.
• Engage with Product to share reusable patterns and insights.

Skills

Production ML modeling

Python

SQL

Model evaluation

Customer-facing data

Communication

Adaptability

Product mindset

Tools

XGBoost

Random Forest

Spark

SingleStore

Hive

SHAP

LLM tools

Job description

Our Mission

6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

Senior Data Scientist, Forward Deployed

Forward Deployed Engineering · Predictive track · Senior TEAM Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Predictive track, in Data Science & AI Engineering Reports to Director of Data Science Level: Senior (5+ years) — the team's lead modeler Location: United States

THE ROLE IN ONE PARAGRAPH

We're hiring a Senior Data Scientist to be the team's lead modeler. You'll work hands‑on with our strategic customers' data to tailor, retrain and validate the models that tell their sales and marketing teams which accounts and buyers to focus on. You'll usually drive two or three customer engagements at once, each on real production data, and present the results in terms of business value. The best of your work becomes a standard capability for every 6sense customer.

What You'll Do

• Get to know each customer's go‑to‑market and data, from CRM and marketing automation to firmographic and intent signals.
• Retrain and tune account and contact models: ideal customer profile and industry definitions, keyword strategy, how CRM activity feeds the models, feature selection, and the balance of first‑and‑third‑party signals.
• Prove impact with backtests against the live model and, where possible, the customer's own scoring, using opportunity conversion by score bucket.
• Calibrate score thresholds and scaling so customers get a steady, explainable flow of qualified accounts.
• Build customer‑ready deliverables: review decks, explainability views, score files and documentation customers can verify.
• Partner with the team's MLOps engineer to bring solutions into production so they keep delivering after handoff.

Productize for everyone

• Capture what you learn as reusable patterns, and share recurring needs with Product, backed by field evidence.

What You'll Bring

• Required: 6-8 years building and deploying machine learning models in production, ideally ranking, propensity, classification or scoring models on tabular or behavioral data.
• Strong foundation in machine learning and applied statistics, including tree‑based models such as XGBoost and Random Forest, model evaluation and calibration.
• Fluent in Python and SQL, with experience on large, messy, real‑world datasets, including matching customer CRM records to account data.
• Experience working with or for customers on their data: consulting, client‑site work, or a forward‑deployed, solutions or customer‑facing data role.
• Comfortable switching between several ad hoc projects in a week rather than one long roadmap item.
• Able to explain technical work clearly to non‑technical audiences.
• A product mindset: you look for the solution that works for the next ten customers, not just this one.
• Nice to have: B2B go‑to‑market data (CRM, marketing automation, intent, ABM or predictive scoring); lead or contact scoring models; model explainability methods such as feature importance or SHAP; Spark, SingleStore or Hive on AWS; LLM‑based tools, agents or evaluation methods.

What Success Looks Like

• In 3 months: you've delivered tailored models for at least two customer engagements, each with before‑and‑after results.
• In 6 months: at least one of your solutions is reusable across customers and on its way into the product.
• In 12 months: you're the team's go‑to expert on model tuning and validation, and your playbooks make each new engagement faster.

Why this role is different

You work on real customer data with real stakes, see the results in the customer's pipeline, and your best work becomes a capability every 6sense customer uses.

Base Salary Range

Base Salary Range: $168,349.50 - $230,912.60. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work location and experience. The base salary is one component of 6sense's total compensation package for this position. Other compensation may include a bonus program or commission plan, and stock options if approved by 6sense's board.

Benefits

In addition, 6sense provides a variety of benefits, including generous health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, self‑care days, and paid time off (PTO).

Our Benefits

Full‑time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time‑off and holidays, quarterly self‑care days off, and stock options. We'll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices.

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well‑being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self‑care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG‑hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

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