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    The Weather Channel

    Weather Forecasting

    Director, Data Science and Analytics

    Andover, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time10+ yrs experiencePosted 3w ago
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    Job description

    • Explore big data to surface Insights to inform major product and business decisions
    • Perform Statistical Natural Language Processing to mine unstructured data, using methods such as document clustering, topic analysis, named entity recognition and sentiment analysis
    • Analyze and model structured data using advanced statistical methods
    • Process data in large-scale environments
    • Attract, select, develop, motivate, train and retain a team of high performing data science professionals
    • Interface with multiple business units to help us grow analytics as a competitive business advantage and as a center of excellence within the business
    • Select and manage relationship with outsourced analytics provider to augment staff as needed from time to time
    • Manage day-to-day operations, including staffing, scheduling, and prioritization of engagements
    • Lead the definition of processes and procedures to enable the team execute efficiently and the product ingest data optimally
    • Identify data partners, both internal and external, to gather the data to build the best in class data solutions
    • Provide sales support and enable the team sell bigger and better and provide metrics to justify the customer spend
    • Be an evangelist and market the solution by promoting the value of the product from a data perspective using white papers, presentations, etc.
    • Build a performance driven culture with a strong foundation of intellectual curiosity
    • Masters degree applied statistics, mathematics, econometrics, or other discipline related to Time-Series Analysis, Machine Learning, or Forecasting, or its equivalent
    • 10 years of relevant experience in data sciences and technology management, to include deploying predictive models into production
    • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
    • Demonstrated ability to work with clients, products, and services across multiple industries
    • Demonstrated performance in managing big data projects such as - MapReduce, Hadoop, HPCC
    • Demonstrated proficiency in growing and managing a data sciences team
    • Proficiency in managing in an Agile environment.
    • Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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    About the company

    The Weather Channel

    The Weather Company is focused entirely on the weather, reaching two-thirds of all U.S. adults through a media portfolio that includes The Weather Channel, weather.com and our mobile applications –Weather Services International, and Weather Underground. Our goal is to provide the world’s best weather, powered by the best possible data.

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