Lead Data Scientist

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Melbourne, Victoria
Senior level
Software
The Role
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will enhance data assets and products, lead a cross-functional team, develop data pipelines, and contribute to the data science strategy. You will work with various stakeholders, ensure project clarity, and stay updated on current research to meet customer needs effectively.
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Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Scientist to drive the creation of understandable, enriched and meaningful data assets and products that will power Culture Amps advanced features. We have a unique, world class data set covering employee engagement and performance globally. This role is to lead increasing investment in this data to power actionable insights and personalised AI assistance across our project set. This role will be leading from the front - You will be a master of your craft, lead the delivery from a small cross functional team, as well as managing the growth and performance of several junior Data Scientists.

You will 

  • Lead an enrichment team that will establish and evolve AI powered data pipelines that create advanced data assets and products to power Culture Amps platform and products.
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure clear definition of purpose, value, and dependencies such that our investments are leveraged by multiple consumers
  • Be part of the Data Science leadership team that contributes to strategy as well as maturing our data science practice including: insights generation, experimentation, metrics definition, evaluation and monitoring.
  • Develop robust data pipelines, and LLM based enrichment processes
  • Stay up to date with current research, literature and provider offerings to enable the pragmatic application to Culture Amps customer needs.

You have 

  • Experience leading a team delivering data assets and products 
  • Knowledge of analytic engineering modelling practices and experience in creating performant data artefacts at scale
  • Experience maturing practice and managing Data Scientists
  • Deep experience with SQL, preferably with enterprise database systems like Redshift, Postgres. Ideally experience with data processing tools like DBT and Dask
  • Experience with establishing scalable, robust, and reliable data pipelines for enrichment in a platform setting.
  • Deep experience in Python data science space, particularly around NLP - LangChain, LangSmith, pandas, numpy, sci kit learn, scipy, hugging face etc.
  • Understanding of statistical and machine learning models. Knowledge of experimental design, statistical testing and model validation. 
  • Experience in data visualization tools such as plotly, seaborn, streamlit etc would be an advantage.
  • Experience with data modelling and exposure to tools like metaflow or airflow is desirable.
  • Experience with common software practices like version control, continuous deployment, and testing.
  • Industry, or equivalent academic experience in researching and developing Generative AI powered Products and services.

You are

  • Curious and have a learning mindset.
  • Enjoy identifying tough problems that can be solved with scientific thinking 
  • A pragmatic, critical thinker, asking the right questions, and backing up assertions with logic and data
  • Able to make the complex simple, to persuasively communicate with a range of stakeholders
  • Excited about making data and AI products that have real impact in people’s lives.
  • Someone who shares our passion for making a better world of work.
  • Not afraid to learn through making mistakes and asking for help.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

  • Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
  • Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
  • Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
  • Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
  • Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
  • Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
  • Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
  • Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
  • 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
  • MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
  • Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 



If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.


Top Skills

Python
SQL
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The Company
New York, NY
556 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Culture Amp is the leading employee experience platform helping companies take action to improve employee engagement, retention and performance. Culture Amp is a Culture First certified B Corporation used by 4,000+ customers including Aegon, Airbnb, Go Cardless, KIND Snacks, McDonald’s, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Salesforce and Slack. Started in Melbourne with offices in San Francisco, London, and New York City, Culture Amp has raised $150,000,000 USD from leading venture capital funds, including Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Blackbird Ventures and Sequoia Capital China.

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