Sr Director, Data Science
This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-10-01 04:10 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $155,430.00 and $275,990.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Charter Communications is known by our Spectrum products and services, including: Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice, Spectrum Networks, Spectrum Business and Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S. Watch this video to learn more.
Grow Your Career Here We’re committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve – providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans. Learn about Life at Spectrum.
Job Summary
Are you passionate about transforming data into actionable insights that drive business strategy? As Senior Director, Data Science at Spectrum, you will leverage advanced analytics to guide company-wide decisions, mentor a talented team, and shape the future of our business processes. Your expertise in data science, strategic leadership, and project management will help Spectrum achieve measurable improvements and deliver valuable recommendations that make a lasting impact.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Plan and lead the execution of the analytics lifecycle, leveraging significant experience in leading this type of work in previous roles
- Use survey varied data sources in relational databases, Hadoop, flat files, and external sources for analytic relevance
- Execute the full scope of advanced analytic techniques; perform problem formulation, requirements analysis, and planning
- Responsible for data surveying, profiling, and pre-processing
- Model data management for validation (e.g. holdout, cross-validation). Selection of appropriate algorithms and execution
- Responsible for interpretation of results – for both causal inferences and predictive effectiveness; synthesize appropriate recommendations for action and changes
- Present findings suggested actions and changes to a broad audience and manage follow-ups and execution
- Help teach and explain techniques and tools used to a broad set of business-intelligence, data, and analytics professionals with varied backgrounds
- Manage a small staff of data scientists in support of the above activities; provide coaching and mentoring to achieve a high-performing team
- Manage internal client relationships, including planning, budgeting, roadmap, issue resolution, and overall accountability for results and client satisfaction
- Exercise thought leadership and discretion in tailoring the tools, approaches, and data used to meet the needs of the particular problem
Working Conditions
- Office environment
What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, operations research or another quantitatively-focus field. MBA or other strong business background
Experience
- 10+ years of data science experience
- 10+ years of business strategy/leadership with data analytics
- 8+ years of business analysis experience
- 8+ years of SQL/R/SAS programming experience
- 5+ years of management and supervision experience
- 5+ years of internal client relationship management experience
- 2+ years of database design or database modeling experience
Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- General leadership and management experience in the field of analytics and/or data management
- Expert-level skills and experience with R (required) and/or Python (desired) (including relevant packages) in support of advanced analytics
- Advanced-level skills with relational databases, including SQL and utilizing data stored in complex schemas
- Expert-level logical and analytic skills
- Comprehensive experience and solid theoretical foundation on the modeling process using a variety of algorithms
- Data profiling, distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing
- Holdout for testing, cross-validation
- Data pre-processing, exploratory data analysis using a variety of techniques
- Regression and classification using linear models, GLMs, and tree-based methods
- Interpretation of model results, consideration of causality, treatment of multicollinearity
- Effective synthesis and presentation skills
- Ability to communicate results and recommendations to a wide variety of audiences
- Basic understanding of data architecture, data warehouse and data marts
- Experience in the telecommunications industry, or two other consumer-based industries
- Demonstrated ability and desire to continually expand skill set, and learn from and teach others
- Experience with Teradata: SQL, UDFs, interpreting explains plans, basic performance-tuning, and use of database catalog
- Operations-research background, in particular focused on large labor operations such as field ops, technical support, and sales
- Background with Cable systems and operations
- Experience with Hadoop, particularly HIVE and Spark
- Knowledge of other relevant tools such as SAS, SPSS, Alteryx, Linux
- Knowledge of other relevant techniques such as text analysis and text mining
- Familiarity with the open-source ecosystems surrounding R (CRAN), Python (PyPi), and/or Hadoop
Preferred Qualifications
Education
- PhD degree
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Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-10-01 04:10 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $155,430.00 and $275,990.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Charter Communications is known by our Spectrum products and services, including: Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice, Spectrum Networks, Spectrum Business and Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S. Watch this video to learn more.
Grow Your Career Here We’re committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve – providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans. Learn about Life at Spectrum.
