Head of Data Science

About the company:

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Our product started as a side project in 2008 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Piedmont.

Po Cloud needs someone comfortable with both statistics and production code. Hybrid. You will need to be in Turin at least two days per week.

What you'll do:

• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness
• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Design and analyse A/B tests, including power calculations and guardrail metrics

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of applied data science experience
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design

Perks and benefits:

Salary range: €79,000-€91,000/year

• Private health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Flexible remuneration plan

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Po Cloud S.r.l..