Lead Data Scientist

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About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist building production ML for Life360’s family safety and tracking products. Driving revenue experimentation, personalization, advertising, and subscription growth.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate revenue-generating opportunities and data, and use findings to size, scope, and measure product changes in Databricks
  • Design, build, deploy, and operate production ML systems, including batch inference, online services, and online learning models
  • Use the team’s feature store and model registry for personalization, experimentation, and automation use cases
  • Partner with Product, Mobile Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, and MLOps to integrate ML systems into user-facing features
  • Set up monitoring to measure ML feature performance and business impact
  • Implement lineage tracking for data, code, and model artifacts to keep the ML lifecycle compliant, reproducible, and secure
  • Improve the data ecosystem and pipelines supporting experimentation and ML
  • Mentor data scientists and define best practices for advanced analytics and ML system development
  • Use Claude Code and other AI tools across data discovery, modeling, and experiment evaluation
  • Help scale production ML delivery and shape the team roadmap with the data science lead and product manager

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in a field that relies on sophisticated statistical analysis or equivalent industry experience
  • 6+ years of experience scoping, building, and analyzing ML-powered systems, including models shipped to production
  • Significant experience with Python, scikit-learn, PySpark, and causal inference programming languages
  • Familiarity with software engineering best practices, including testing, modularization, and version control
  • Technical training and professional experience applying modern causal inference and causal analysis techniques
  • Significant experience working with found data, guiding instrumentation, and implementing data transformations
  • Hands-on experience setting up consumer technology experiments, including experiment design, monitoring, and analysis
  • Experience building ML or running experiments at a consumer (B2C) technology company
  • Strong communication and project leadership skills
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams
  • Structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported problem solving
  • Prior experience leveraging LLMs in advanced data processing and analysis workflows
  • Preferred: experience with digital advertising and ad tech infrastructure
  • Preferred: experience with ranking and grouping algorithms for content feeds
  • Preferred: experience managing production feature stores and ML model registries
  • Preferred: experience working with product line GMs, revenue reporting, and forecasting analyses
  • Preferred: experience with subscription products, lifecycle marketing, or user acquisition
  • Preferred: experience with geospatial data and mobile location-based services
  • AI fluency, critical review of AI-generated code and models, and accountability for shipped work
  • Ability to run parallel AI-assisted workstreams and share AI workflows with the team
  • Continuous learning about new AI tools and techniques

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees)
  • Life and disability insurance and supplemental medical and dental plans for Canadian employees
  • 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US
  • RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees
  • Paid parental leave
  • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Companywide holidays
  • Summer and winter shutdowns
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers
  • Equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$175,000 - $218,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

CloudPySparkPythonScikit-Learn

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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