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Senior Data Science Manager
Fetch
WorldwideRemote2mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of data scientists focused on high-impact product and business opportunities.
- Provide clear feedback, support career growth, and create an environment that enables strong performance, healthy team dynamics, and continued development.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team growth while contributing to the broader evolution of Fetch’s data science organization.
- Serve as the data lead for a product pillar, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to shape priorities and influence strategic direction.
- Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear analytical roadmaps that drive measurable impact across user growth, customer value, revenue, and product performance.
- Ensure the team’s work is aligned to broader business goals and meaningfully informs product roadmap decisions.
- Guide the team in experimentation, measurement, statistical analysis, causal inference, and predictive modeling with a high bar for rigor and practical application.
- Evaluate analytical strategies, technical proposals, and team outputs to ensure work is high quality, actionable, and grounded in strong scientific thinking.
- Help break down broad problem spaces into clear technical approaches and support execution from concept through impact.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Marketing, and business leaders to turn insights into decisions, systems, and shipped outcomes.
- Communicate findings, recommendations, and tradeoffs clearly to senior and executive leadership to influence direction and drive alignment.
- Create clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving environments by setting priorities, managing dependencies, and protecting the team from unnecessary thrash.
- Establish strong standards for quality, prioritization, and execution across the team’s work.
- Balance speed and rigor by making thoughtful tradeoffs that maintain momentum while protecting scientific quality.
- Contribute to a strong generalist data science organization through improvements to team operations, planning, and ways of working.
- 6+ years of experience in data science, applied analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- 1+ year of direct people management experience leading data scientists or other quantitative practitioners.
- Hands-on experience in experimentation, statistical analysis, causal inference, measurement, and predictive modeling.
- Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to define priorities and translate ambiguous business problems into clear analytical approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to connect technical work to measurable business outcomes such as revenue growth, user growth, engagement, retention, or customer value.
- Experience evaluating analytical approaches, guiding technical strategy, and driving high-quality, actionable outputs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and modern data science workflows.
- Experience leading data scientists in a consumer product, marketplace, or growth-focused environment.
- 2+ years of people management experience.
- Experience serving as the primary data lead for a product area, product pillar, or business domain.
- Track record of influencing product strategy and roadmap decisions through data-driven recommendations.
- Experience operating effectively in highly ambiguous environments and creating structure, focus, and clarity for teams.
- MBA, consulting background, or comparable experience driving strategic decision-making across cross-functional stakeholders.
- Prior hands-on experience as a data scientist, with a strong preference for candidates who have directly led data science work.
- Experience mentoring generalist data science teams across a broad range of product and business problem spaces.
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Vision Insurance
- Unlimited Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Pension Matching
- Learning Budget
- Equity Compensation
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