Job Abstract

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

The Director, Data Science will lead development of innovative data science and machine learning solutions to grow our customers and drive engagement and retention. The Director will work closely with customer portfolio, product, engineering, and marketing stakeholders to identify data science opportunities, build strong partnership, and deliver impactful solutions for the business.

• Develop customer data science roadmap and educate both internal and external stakeholders at all levels to drive implementation and measurement.
• Develop innovative data science solutions for segmentation, CLTV, next best action, forecasting, and experimentation that utilize the state-of-art machine learning algorithms, statistical and quantitative modeling approaches.
• Build a world-class team of data scientists. Be a hands-on leader to mentor the team in latest machine learning and AI approaches, and to introduce new technologies and processes.

• Manage projects priorities and ensure timely delivery. Develop and evangelize best practices for scoping, building, validating, deploying, and monitoring data science models.

• Prepare and present data science results and analytical insights to senior leadership.

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, or other equivalent quantitative fields.
• 5+ years of work experience in Machine Learning, AI and Data Science with a proven track record to drive innovation and business impacts.
• Strong machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling expertise, such as neural networks, reinforcement learning, causal inference modeling, NLP, and computer vision.  
• Strong knowledge and experience with big data platforms (AWS, Azure, Spark) and ML/AI languages and tools (Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience in deploying machine learning algorithms and advanced modeling solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex analysis and algorithms to untechnical audience.
• Works effectively cross functional teams to build trusted partnership.

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 25lbs

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.  Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees.  Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.