Head of Data Science

Head of Data Science

London, Hybrid working (2 to 3 days per week in office). Offering a competitive salary between £150,000 to £160,000 base.

This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape and scale a high impact data science function at the heart of a profitable, fast growing fintech. The role offers significant autonomy and the chance to influence how data science drives commercial decision making across an established UK business.

The Company

They are a London based fintech providing credit and financing solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Operating in a highly data driven environment, they have built a profitable, automated lending platform supported by sophisticated statistical and machine learning models. The business is well capitalised, commercially mature, and continuing to invest heavily in data science as a core differentiator.

The Role

As Head of Data Science, you will lead a multi team data science function that underpins decisions across credit, product, operations and commercial strategy. Your focus will be on maximising the value of data science across the organisation while ensuring the function scales effectively.

Key responsibilities include:

• Setting direction for the data science function and ensuring work is aligned to core business and profitability metrics such as customer lifetime value.
• Leading, hiring and developing a large team of data scientists, including managers and senior individual contributors.
• Improving efficiency, standards and ways of working across multiple data science sub teams.
• Partnering closely with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, operations and commercial teams to ensure insights are embedded in decision making.
• Overseeing the use of probabilistic and machine learning models in production environments and contributing to longer term technical and modelling strategy.
• Helping the business prioritise where data science delivers the greatest commercial impact.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong experience leading and scaling sizeable data science teams, including managing managers and individual contributors.
• A track record of driving measurable commercial impact through data science in a complex business environment.
• Experience operating in cross functional settings and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of probabilistic modelling, statistics and machine learning, ideally grounded in an academic background such as mathematics, statistics, physics or a related field.
• The ability to balance rigour with pragmatism, ensuring models and analysis deliver real world value.
• Experience building or operating data science functions where work is deployed into production.
• UK based experience and the right to work in the UK, with sponsorship available if required.

What They Offer

• Competitive base salary of £150,000 to £160,000.
• Hybrid working model with 2 to 3 days per week in the London office.
• Significant autonomy and resource to shape the function and its future growth.
• The opportunity to lead a large, well established data science team in a profitable and growing business.
• Clear scope to influence strategy, structure and long term direction of data science across the organisation.

How to Apply

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