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Director, Data Science & Engineering, Finance

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🔥 0 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $203k - $309k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

Where this job comes from

Posted on Dropbox's careers page, not through a job board

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Dropbox

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Manufacturing • Logistics

Dropbox is a cloud-based service that provides tools for storing, sharing, and accessing files across devices. It offers features such as document sharing, video review, automatic backups, and AI-driven scheduling. Dropbox also provides solutions for different sectors like teams, sales, marketing, and education, and industries including construction, media, technology, and manufacturing. With a focus on security, Dropbox ensures files are encrypted and protected against tampering. It offers integrations with various productivity tools and is trusted by major companies for efficient file management and collaboration.

📋 Description

• Lead a small, high-impact team of a data scientist and a data engineer supporting Finance • Manage, coach, and develop team members through clear expectations, development plans, delegation, and ownership • Set team strategy and priorities across strategic initiatives, recurring operations, model maintenance, knowledge coordination, and technical debt • Provide technical leadership across data science and data engineering, including problem framing, modeling, data architecture, pipelines, testing, monitoring, documentation, and production readiness • Identify and establish standards for AI, machine learning, automation, advanced analytics, experimentation, evaluation, interpretability, human oversight, privacy, and monitoring • Improve financial data quality, lineage, observability, documentation, governance, and reliability • Ensure models and analyses support financial planning, forecasting, driver understanding, and decision-making • Establish operating mechanisms for intake, prioritization, roadmaps, reviews, incident response, documentation, knowledge sharing, and stakeholder communication • Communicate data, model, and engineering implications, recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to technical, non-technical, Finance, and executive audiences • Partner with Finance, Engineering, Data, Product, software engineering, and executive stakeholders • Automate recurring tasks, improve service levels, and increase the team’s strategic contribution

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience • Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, analytics, data engineering, or a combination of these disciplines to business problems • Experience directly managing and developing technical professionals, ideally including both data scientists and data engineers or closely adjacent roles • Strong professional foundation in either data science or data engineering, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across the other discipline • Experience leading a portfolio of projects from problem definition through delivery, adoption, measurement, and ongoing operation • Experience with data quality, data pipelines, analytical datasets, model development or maintenance, experimentation or evaluation, and production or operational support • Demonstrated ability to use data and technology to influence business decisions and deliver measurable impact • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, uncertainty, and trade-offs to Finance and executive audiences • Demonstrated growth mindset: actively seeks feedback, learns new technologies and domains, adapts to changing conditions, and creates an environment where the team does the same • Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment

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