Head of Data Science

Cialfo is a leading platform connecting students, higher education institutions, and counselors through technology-driven solutions. Launched in 2017 with a mission to make education accessible to 100 million students, Cialfo provides a range of mobile and web solutions to students, K-12 institutions, and higher education institutions. We're one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the region, consistently charting new heights

Cialfo is a global company that connects communities. Around the world, students, counselors, parents, and college representatives use Cialfo to hope, dream and collaborate. It's one-stop solutions bring together people, software, and data to simplify career counseling and college admission workflows. Our exciting and fast-growing solution, Explore by Cialfo, helps us meet our college partners' goals and challenges and further provide our high school community with access to opportunities and vital information. We're on a mission to make higher education accessible for 100 million students.

We are looking for our next Cialfolk team member to join us in growing our team, mission, and culture. Our culture is the north star that guides how we work together and with our partners. Your future colleagues are some of the most talented people in the industry whose ideas have resulted in many features and initiatives being adopted and executed. They are everyday problem solvers who run fast and drive Cialfo to the forefront in the Ed-Tech landscape.

We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to lead and expand the data science function in Cialfo and help us gain useful insight out of our data gold mines. Data is the way forward and this role will give you the opportunity to build/mentor an ideal team to pave the way forward This role will require responsibilities such as hiring and managing a lean data science team, planning projects, be hands-on in building analytics models and production / deployment. You should have a strong problem-solving ability and a knack for statistical analysis. If you're also able to align our data products with our business goals, we'd love to meet you. This position will be part of our Product team (yes, our wonderful colleagues who make our platform a reality) and your ultimate goal will be to help improve our products and business decisions by making the most out of our data.

**Responsibilities**
- Manage a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and big data specialists
- Lead data mining and collection procedures
- Ensure data quality and integrity
- Interpret and analyze data problems, turning business problems into data insights
- Conceive, plan and prioritize data projects
- Build analytic systems and predictive models
- Test performance of data-driven products
- Visualize data and create reports
- Experiment with new models and techniques
- Has in-depth knowledge and expertise in the process of converting an unstructured problem to useful and actionable insights using data science/analytics.
- Align data projects with organizational goals
- Planning data projects
- Building analytic systems and predictive models
- Managing a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and big data specialists
- Collaborating with stakeholders across teams to execute projects.

**Requirements**:

- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or similar role, with 5 - 8 years experience.
- Demonstrate the ability to distil complex business problems, solutionize and turn them into measurable, actionable and optimizable outcomes.
- Have experience in building, maintaining and evaluating models in a production (real time and offline) environment. Design and build scalable systems (a short SLA only excites you like there's no tomorrow)
- Experience building a team from scratch with a strategic vision on how Cialfo can be even more data driven.
- You've done production (real time and offline), hands down you've got this. A short SLA only excites you like there's no tomorrow
- Strong in the common data science tongues (R, Python, Scala,), with deep expertise in common data science tools/package (sklearn, mllib, tensorflow, torch, etc.)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience building a team from scratch with a strategic vision. Earn extra stripes if you can demonstrate your talent retention ability.
- Stakeholder management is your strong suit, you know how to use data for stakeholder buy-in.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills, with a bias to action
- Masters Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or similar field

**Benefits**

Exact benefits vary depending on your location. That said, all Cialfo employees receive the following benefits:

- Private health insurance
- 20 days paid vacation
- Company sponsored laptop

Visit our **culture manifesto deck** to learn more about the unique Cialfo culture and the opportunity to be one of us. _This_ is an opportunity to be a part of a fun, flexible, and fast-moving o