Head of Engineering, Data Science

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Theta

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💸 Finance

Consulting • Marketing • Finance

Theta is a company specializing in predictive customer analytics and corporate valuation. It offers innovative solutions to understand and forecast customer behavior through its advanced Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) model, CLV Ultra. Designed for both investment firms and corporations, Theta helps clients enhance their marketing strategies, improve customer engagement, and make informed business decisions by providing deep insights into customer unit economics and corporate valuation methodologies.

📋 Description

• Own Theta’s engineering function and lead its data science team • Set technical direction and help the team resolve difficult delivery problems • Work with clients’ technical teams • Architect reliable execution of thousands of models on cloud infrastructure • Work with client engineering teams to package and deploy models in their own environments • Make the pipeline from raw client files to validated model outputs reliable and reusable • Develop AI-assisted workflows for data preparation and modeling • Set standards for testing, validation, and reliable deployment • Review the team’s code and designs • Decide what to build, automate, or outsource while ensuring maintainability • Help data scientists resolve difficult client delivery problems and contribute directly when engagements overlap

🎯 Requirements

• Deep engineering skills and judgment across engineering, data science, and infrastructure • Experience building and operating production data or ML systems end to end at scale on cloud infrastructure • Experience with GCP preferred; AWS, Azure, Databricks, or Snowflake also relevant • Experience solving problems across data preparation, model execution, and infrastructure, from messy input files to slow model runs • Ability to critically check data and outputs and identify issues that should stop a run • Willingness to learn and work in an existing R-based production stack • Product engineering mindset, balancing reliability, usability, and delivery needs • Ability to lead a small, experienced data science team through hands-on technical guidance and resolve difficult delivery problems • Comfortable participating in client calls to explain technical methods and trade-offs, discuss data requirements, and understand clients’ technology stacks and infrastructure • Genuine interest in developing AI-assisted workflows, ability to learn unfamiliar tools quickly, and critically evaluate outputs • Preferred: Experience building and evaluating AI-assisted workflows for data preparation and modeling, including LLM or agent-based systems • Preferred: Production R experience, including packaging, dependency management, containers, or C++ integration through Rcpp • Preferred: Statistical modeling, especially familiarity with CLV or BTYD models • Preferred: Experience deploying data or modeling workflows in client-controlled environments, including Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark • Preferred: Infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform or similar, and CI/CD