Lead Data Scientist

At Netcore, innovation isn t just a buzzword its the core of everything we do. As the pioneering force behind the first and leading AI/ML-powered Customer Engagement and Experience Platform (CEE), were dedicated to revolutionizing how B2C brands interact with their customers. Our state-of-the-art SaaS products are designed to foster personalized engagement throughout the entire customer journey, creating remarkable digital experiences for businesses of all sizes.**Engineering at Netcore:** Dive into a world where your work directly impacts engagement, conversions, revenue, and customer retention. Our engineering team tackles complex challenges that come with scaling high-performance systems. We thrive on versatility and speed, employing advanced tech stacks such as Kafka, Storm, RabbitMQ, Celery, RedisQ, and GoLang, all hosted robustly on AWS and GCP clouds. At Netcore, youre not just solving technical problems youre setting industry benchmarks.**Global Presence, Local Impact:** Headquartered in Mumbai with a presence in 10 countries, including the United States and Germany, our influence is both global and personalized. We are proud to serve over 5,000 enterprise brands across 18 countries, including more than 70% of the unicorns in India, underscoring our role as a top-tier customer engagement and experience platform.**A Great Place to Work:** Recognized as a Great Place to Work for three consecutive years, Netcore is deeply committed to a people-centric culture. Here, you re more than an employee; you re part of a family. We value curiosity, collaboration, and the unique contributions of each member, ensuring everyone s voice is heard.**Join Us:** If youre ready to be at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are looking for a role where you can truly thrive, dont hesitate to apply. We are eager to learn more about you and explore how your skills and passions align with our visionary team.Lets start a conversation and make magic happen together! Website - https://netcorecloud.com/ Data Scientist About us: We are a Martech platform helping businesses design, execute, and optimize campaigns across multiple channels. With a strong focus on leveraging data, machine learning, and AI, we empower our clients to make smarter marketing decisions and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Our team is passionate about innovation and collaboration, and we are looking for a talented Lead Data Scientist to guide and grow our data science team. Role Summary: As the Lead Data Scientist, you will head our existing data science team, driving the development of advanced machine learning models and AI solutions. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our ML/AI strategy, leading projects across NLP, deep learning, predictive analytics, and recommendation systems, while ensuring alignment with business goals. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic decision-making to build impactful solutions for our customers. Key Responsibilities: Leadership and Team Management: Lead and mentor the existing data science engineers, fostering skill development and collaboration. Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and ensure best practices in model development and deployment. Model Development and Innovation: Design and build machine learning models for tasks like NLP, recommendation systems, customer segmentation, and predictive analytics. Research and implement state-of-the-art ML/AI techniques to solve real-world problems. Ensure models are scalable, reliable, and optimized for performance in production environments. We operate in AWS and GCP, so it s mandatory that you have previous experience in setting up the MLOps workflow in either of the cloud service provider. Business Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, marketing, etc.) to identify opportunities where AI/ML can drive value. Translate business problems into data science solutions and communicate findings to stakeholders effectively. Drive data-driven decision-making to improve user engagement, conversions, and campaign outcomes.Technology and Tools: Work with large-scale datasets, ensuring data quality and scalability of solutions. Leverage cloud platforms like AWS, GCP for model training and deployment. Utilize tools and libraries such as Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and Spark for development. With so much innovation happening around Gen AI and LLMs, we prefer folks who have already exposed themselves to this exciting opportunity via AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex. Qualifications: Education: Master s or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field. Experience: With an industry experience of more than 10 years with 5+ years of experience in data science, and at least 2 years in a leadership role managing a strong technical team. Proven expertise in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and recommendation systems. Hands-on experience deploying ML models in production at scale. Experience in Martech or working on customer-facing AI solutions is a plus. Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. Strong understanding of statistical methods, predictive modeling, and algorithm design. Familiarity with cloud-based solutions (AWS Sagemaker, GCP AI Platform, or similar). Soft Skills: Excellent communication skills to present complex ideas to both technical and non technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving mindset and the ability to think strategically. A passion for innovation and staying up-to-date with the latest trends in AI/ML. Why Join Us: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI/ML projects impacting millions of users. Be part of a collaborative, innovation-driven team in a fast-growing Martech company. Competitive salary, benefits, and a culture that values learning and growth.