# Director Data Science

**Company**: Meesho
**Location**: Bangalore, Karnataka
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Team

Our Data Science team is a key player in driving Meesho's growth, building intelligent systems that impact millions of users.

## About the Role

We are seeking a Director - Data Science to lead a team of skilled data scientists in developing and deploying machine learning models that drive business outcomes. You will own the data science roadmap for a key business charter, guiding the team through complex challenges to deliver production-grade ML solutions.

## Responsibilities

- Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists.

- Own all data science systems and models in your charter , from strategy to deployment and monitoring.

- Collaborate with senior product, engineering, and business leaders to define and prioritize impactful AI/ML initiatives.

- Represent Data Science in senior leadership discussions and communicate technical strategies, investment decisions, and business impact.

- Drive platformization, system architecture decisions, and ML lifecycle improvements across the charter.

- Ensure model scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, while upholding best practices in experimentation and statistical rigor.

- Guide the team in reading and implementing state-of-the-art research, and facilitate build vs. buy decisions.

- Lead root cause analysis for critical production issues and improve system observability, documentation, and service uptime.

## Requirements

- Master's degree (PhD preferred) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.

- 10+ years of experience in Data Science or Analytics, with at least 6 years of people management experience.

- Strong research background and knowledge of state-of-the-art in AI/ML.

- Proven track record of building and deploying ML models in production at scale.

- Experience managing teams of 20+ data scientists and delivering across cross-functional charters.

- Deep expertise in ML algorithms, experimental design, and performance monitoring.

- Strong coding skills (Python, SQL) and familiarity with Big Data technologies like Spark, Hive, or Redshift.

- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions, prioritize roadmaps, and estimate effort accurately.

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with a bias for action and clarity in execution.

- Strong experience in building large-scale AI/ML applications for areas such as recommendations systems, ranking, retrieval, search, etc.

## Bonus Points For

- Experience leading ML initiatives in B2C or e-commerce settings.

- Contributions to internal tools, open-source libraries, or research publications.

- Strong understanding of ML system performance trade-offs , latency, cost, and throughput.

- Top-tier research publications in the areas of AI and ML, especially in recommendation systems, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery.

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Statistics
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Analytics
- Python
- SQL
- Big Data technologies
- Spark
- Hive
- Redshift

### Nice to have
- B2C
- E-commerce
- Open-source libraries
- Research publications
- Recommendation systems
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge discovery

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