Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed

6sense; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K employer matching program

Paid holidays

Self-care days

Paid time off (PTO)

Stock options

Job summary

6sense is seeking a Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed, to partner with strategic customers and tailor predictive models to their go‑to‑market needs. You will lead engagements with hands‑on coding and direct customer interaction.

You’ll set technical direction across five to ten engagements, translate findings into product improvements, and mentor a team of data scientists while delivering measurable impact in customers’ pipelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and deploying ML models in production.
• Experience working directly with customers on their data: consulting, client-site work, or forward-deployed/solutions role.
• Strong applied ML fundamentals including tree-based models: XGBoost and Random Forest; feature engineering and calibration.
• Experience owning model changes in production end-to-end: backtesting, promotion decisions and rollback.
• Fluent in Python and SQL, comfortable with messy data.
• Able to run two or three engagements at once with no fixed sprint plan.
• Exceptional communication: ability to tell the story to executives and engineers.
• A product mindset: build a capability once for all customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical side of strategic customer engagements from discovery to production.
• Partner with customers’ marketing and revenue operations teams to understand go-to-market, data and goals.
• Tailor models for each customer: ICP definitions, industry definitions, keyword/intent strategy, CRM data feeds.
• Shape engagements with Professional Services and Customer Success: scope, plan, estimate and success measures.
• Lead customer reviews with backtests and data verification that customers can validate.
• Explain the work in the customer’s language to business leaders and practitioners.
• Guide customers through model/configuration changes so teams know what to expect.
• Productize successful patterns into reusable roadmaps and feed Product as input.

Skills

10+ years of ML in production

Python and SQL fluency

Customer-facing experience

ML model evaluation/calibration

Model deployment from end-to-end

Engagement leadership

Communication to execs and engineers

Tools

XGBoost

Random Forest

SingleStore

Hive

Spark on AWS

CRM/Marketing automation data (ABM etc)

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.

Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed

Forward Deployed Engineering · Predictive track · Staff

TEAM

Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Predictive track, in Data Science & AI Engineering

REPORTS TO

Head of Data Science & AI Engineering

LEVEL

Staff (10+ years) — leads the team’s customer engagements

LOCATION

United States

THE ROLE IN ONE PARAGRAPH

Our largest customers want data scientists who work directly with their teams. As Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed, you’ll lead that work: partnering with strategic customers to tailor our predictive models to how they go to market, and making sure the results show up in their pipeline.

You’ll set the technical direction for five to ten customer engagements at a time while staying hands-on, and carry what you learn back into the product. This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys ambiguity, likes being close to customers, and wants their work to show up both in customer results and in the product.

What You’ll Do

Build for the customer

• Lead the technical side of strategic customer engagements, from discovery to a solution running in production.


• Partner with customers’ marketing and revenue operations teams to understand their go‑to‑market, data and goals, and find where predictive intelligence can have the most impact.


• Tailor and optimize models for each customer: ideal customer profile and industry definitions, keyword and intent strategy, how CRM and marketing automation activity feeds the models, and score thresholds.


• Shape each engagement with Professional Services and Customer Success: scope, plan, estimate and success measures.


• Lead customer reviews that recommend the next model, backed by backtests and conversion analysis customers can verify in their own data.


• Tell the story of the work in the customer’s language, so results land with business leaders as well as practitioners.


• Guide customers through model and configuration changes so their teams know what to expect.

Productize for everyone

• Turn what works into reusable patterns, and bring the ones that recur across customers to Product as roadmap input backed by field evidence.


• Set the team’s standards for discovery, validation, documentation and handoff, and mentor its data scientists.

What You’ll Bring

• Required: 10+ years building and deploying machine learning models in production, ideally supervised models on tabular or behavioral data (propensity, scoring, ranking or similar).


• Experience working directly with customers on their data: consulting, client‑site work, or a forward‑deployed or solutions role at a company like Palantir or in fintech.


• Strong applied ML fundamentals, including tree‑based models such as XGBoost and Random Forest: feature engineering, evaluation, calibration, threshold setting, and healthy skepticism about what a metric is telling you.


• Experience owning model changes in production end to end: backtesting, promotion decisions and rollback.


• Fluent in Python and SQL, and comfortable in messy, fragmented customer data rather than clean benchmarks.


• Able to run two or three engagements at once and switch between them without a fixed sprint plan.


• Exceptional communication: you can tell the story of the work to an executive and to an engineer.


• A product mindset: you’d rather build a capability once for every customer than solve it ten times by hand.


• Nice to have: B2B go‑to‑market data (CRM, marketing automation, intent, ABM or predictive scoring); explaining model output to non‑technical users; leading a small team or a portfolio of client engagements; building or evaluating LLM‑based tools and agents; data platforms such as SingleStore, Hive or Spark on AWS.

What Success Looks Like

• In 3 months: you’ve led engagements end to end and delivered a measurable improvement in at least one enterprise customer’s predictive results.


• In 6 months: patterns from your engagements are on the predictive roadmap, and at least one tailored solution is on its way to becoming a standard product capability.


• In 12 months: engagements move faster because of the tooling and playbook you built, and more of what customers need comes in the product out of the box.

Why this role is different

most data science roles build models at a distance from the customer or advise without shipping. This one leads the work end to end, from the customer conversation to the model in production, and turns it into product.

Base Salary Range

Base Salary Range: $194,736.75 - $265,613.90. 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. 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). #Li-remote

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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.

Culture and Well‑being

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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