Remote Chief Data Scientist: Lead FinTech AI Strategy
Placements24
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Placements24 is seeking a Chief Data Scientist to define the data strategy and mentor a world-class team. This remote role within South Africa focuses on ML, AI, and analytics to drive business impact and product innovation.
You will lead predictive analytics, customer segmentation, risk assessment, and data-driven decision making across the organization, collaborating with product and engineering to unlock new opportunities.
Qualifications
- PhD or Master's in a quantitative field such as CS, statistics, math or physics.
- 10+ years of data science/analytics with leadership experience.
- Proven record of deploying production-grade ML models.
- Strong Python or R skills with common ML libraries.
- Experience with big data and cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the data science strategy and roadmap.
- Lead and grow a team of data scientists and ML engineers.
- Oversee end-to-end ML model development and deployment.
- Champion data-driven decision making across the company.
- Collaborate with product, engineering and business teams.
- Evaluate new technologies and methodologies in data science.
- Ensure quality, scalability, and reliability of solutions.
- Communicate findings to executives and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay at the forefront of AI, ML and big data advances.
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Job description
Placements24 is seeking a Chief Data Scientist to define the data strategy and mentor a world-class team. This remote role within South Africa focuses on ML, AI, and analytics to drive business impact and product innovation.
You will lead predictive analytics, customer segmentation, risk assessment, and data-driven decision making across the organization, collaborating with product and engineering to unlock new opportunities.
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