Senior Manager, Data Science

INTRO

We’re looking for an inspirational leader that understands and respects the honorable burden of leading fellow brilliant minds. Someone that will have a say in how our data science team executes and how we stay true to our values.

Your mission will be to run a world-class, highly efficient, and business-impact-driving data science team. Under your leadership, this team will balance:

Delivering applicative DS models that power our market-leading innovative products.

Research Lab functionality through DS, allowing the Data Org’s proactive identification of thematic opportunities for the business.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the strategy, methodology, and execution patterns of this vital data function. And lead the team and data culture at a global, data-driven company that creates worlds beyond gameplay and brings communities together.

EXPECTATIONS

• Serve as a Heart-First, People-First, Leader

• Exemplify the values we live by. Know and care for the people in your teams out of the understanding that, as a leader, you work for them.
• Nurture a blameless culture. Inspire, develop, and guide your team members to be the best that they can be.
• Formalize your team’s identity to one everyone wants to be a part of.

• Excel as a Senior Manager

• Build the processes that make us run efficiently. That automates the ordinary so we can focus on the extraordinary.
• Be a champion of best practices for project management, and find the right recipe that makes your teams demonstrate high performance.
• Prioritize pragmatically, communicate effectively, and know when to juggle and when to focus.

• Business & Data Focus

• Know the data - Ask ALL the whys, relentlessly, until you know it inside-out. Instill that same rigor in your teams and push context to the entire Data Org.
• Bring Business Value - Obsess about designing DS products that serve the business needs and provide empirical lasting value. You’re not here to produce models but to create measurable quality and impact.

• Be the Face of Your Teams

• Create strong bonds & true partnerships with your stakeholders at the product, company leadership, and data leadership level.
• Translate DS needs from strategic conversations to the day-to-month actions your teams will take.
• Tell the stories of your teams’ deliverables, know how important it is to create awareness, and bridge the gap between non-technical people and what your team does

• Leadership Team Member

• Demonstrate a servant-leadership mindset. Passionately deliver people, process, and culture-enabling products to our team members. Consistently.
• Be willing and able to continuously be expected to learn and improve as a leader and a manager. Challenge and be challenged to develop together.
• Be deliberate about our leadership team’s culture. Spend time with your fellow leaders, laugh together, cry together, and be who you really are.