Lead Data Scientist - NLP & AI, Cape Town

Impact; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical aid

Retirement fund

Dev budget

Cape Town office

Job summary

Impact in Cape Town is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive AI innovation, lead a team of data scientists and engineers, and translate complex data into strategic decisions across the business.

You will design and deploy NLP and ML models, build robust data pipelines, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and stay ahead of research trends to keep the company at the forefront of analytics.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in data science, CS, or linguistics.
• 7+ years in data science with NLP focus.
• Proven leadership of data science projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data scientists.
• Develop NLP/ML models for text data.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders.
• Build scalable data pipelines and deployments.
• Communicate findings to executives.

Skills

Data science leadership

NLP

Team mentoring

Python

Machine learning

Stakeholder management

Statistical modeling

Education

PhD in Data Science

Masters in CS

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers

Job description

Impact in Cape Town is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive AI innovation, lead a team of data scientists and engineers, and translate complex data into strategic decisions across the business.

You will design and deploy NLP and ML models, build robust data pipelines, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and stay ahead of research trends to keep the company at the forefront of analytics.