Strategic Data Science, Manager

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Role Description

As a Strategic Data Scientist, you will own the end-to-end design, development, and production deployment of advanced AI and data-driven solutions. You'll build scalable machine-learning models with large, heterogeneous datasets to solve complex business challenges and provide proactive, data-driven guidance to our Customer Success organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customer success, product, engineering, and sales teams to define KPIs and analytical approaches that answer key business questions.
• Design, build, and deploy machine learning and AI models (classification, regression, NLP, recommendation engines, etc.) to identify at-risk customers, predict attrition, and assess impact of product offerings.
• Develop customized recommendation engines that suggest next-best actions for customers (collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid, graph-based techniques, etc.).
• Drive the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from data preprocessing and feature engineering to model training, testing, and automated retraining workflows.
• Architect high-performance data pipeline for massive, multi-source datasets (streaming, batch, semi-structured), ensuring optimal storage, fast query performance, and high data integrity in hybrid cloud environments.
• Monitor production model performance by tracking key metrics like accuracy, drift, and latency. Leverage A / B testing and establish feedback loops to drive continuous improvement and rapid iteration.
• Support translation of strategic direction into analytical problems and actionable data science initiatives, ensuring data science alignment with organizational goals and long‑term vision.
• Present clear, actionable insights and technical roadmaps to technical and non‑technical stakeholders at all levels.

Collaborative Partners

Role Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Unleash Your Potential

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Compensation and Benefits

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well, including time‑off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock‑purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at https : / / www.salesforcebenefits.com. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For New York‑based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $236,500. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $236,500.

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