Director, Data Science

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🏈 Alabama, Alaska, +43 more states – Remote

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💵 $180k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📊 Data Scientist

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Destination Pet, LLC

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💰 Debt Financing on 2017-10

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Destination Pet, LLC is a nationwide community of skilled and passionate pet professionals dedicated to providing total pet health care. Through their Connected Care approach, they have created a network of experts across all pet and vet care services, ensuring pets receive the best possible care. They are known for their strong team spirit and dedication to improving the lives of pet families. Additionally, Destination Pet offers opportunities for veterinarians and pet center owners looking to sell their businesses, ensuring a smooth transition while honoring the original vision and caring for the staff. The company's mission is to elevate the love and lives of pet families through trusted and innovative pet care services.

📋 Description

• Help define and build the data science strategy for a newly formed pet health data business unit • Analyze large, complex, and multi-source datasets related to pet health, veterinary care, pet services, customer behavior, and service utilization • Build predictive models, segmentation models, forecasting tools, and other analytical solutions to identify trends, patterns, and commercial opportunities • Partner with product, technology, commercial, operations, and executive stakeholders to identify data products and insights that can be monetized • Support the development of data products that may be sold to external customers, partners, or industry stakeholders • Work with internal and external data sources, including veterinary partners, pet care centers, customer systems, and third-party datasets • Lead cross-functional efforts in data cleaning, normalization, deduplication, taxonomy creation, and quality control • Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences • Help establish best practices for responsible data use, privacy, governance, de-identification, and data quality • Operate comfortably in an entrepreneurial environment where business models are still being developed • Drive the creation of novel, statistically differentiated predictive models • Help shape the future structure, tools, and capabilities of the data science function as the business scales • Reports to the Chief Executive Officer • Travel less than 10%

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field • 6-10+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling, or a related quantitative role • Strong proficiency in Python and/or R • Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases and large datasets • Experience working with messy, fragmented, or multi-source data and turning it into usable analytical assets • Demonstrated experience building predictive models, segmentation frameworks, forecasting models, machine learning models, or other advanced analytical solutions • Strong understanding of data quality, feature engineering, statistical inference, experimentation, model validation, and analytical best practices • Ability to communicate complex analysis clearly to executive, commercial, product, and non-technical stakeholders • Comfort working in a newly formed business, startup-like environment, or high-growth setting with ambiguity and evolving priorities • Experience in a newly formed company, startup, venture-backed company, PE-backed company, or corporate incubation environment • Experience building data products, commercial analytics products, data platforms, data marketplaces, or monetizable insight products • Experience in healthcare, veterinary medicine, pet care, life sciences, insurance, consumer health, retail, marketplace businesses, or multi-site services • Experience working with regulated, sensitive, privacy-conscious, or consumer data environments • Familiarity with privacy-preserving analytics, de-identification, aggregation, consent frameworks, and responsible data-use practices • Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar • Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Sigma, or similar • Experience partnering with product, engineering, commercial, legal, operations, and executive teams • Able to work independently in a fully remote environment while collaborating effectively across functions • Destination Pet does not provide any Visa Sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• 20% bonus • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 401(k) match • Pet Care discounts • Flexible Time Off • Opportunity to grow your career with a network of like-minded professionals • Startup mentality company with stable funding • Startup-like agility with the backing of an established platform