Head of Data Science (Growth, in the US)

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day

• Lead Gusto’s Employer Growth data science team - recruit, hire, empower and coach a team of data scientists working to grow Gusto’s customer base and drive customer engagement, retention and revenue.
• Partner with Marketing, Product, and Sales to drive data efforts for all Growth workstreams, using all of the tools in our data science toolkit - forecasting lead and customer value, personalizing and targeting in our onboarding experience, recommending features and product experiences, and experimenting across all Growth areas. 
• Work with our engineering and systems counterparts to develop and deploy critical technology for driving growth, such as audience segmentation, communications platforms, experimentation frameworks, etc.
• Identify new opportunities to leverage data to improve Gusto’s products and help our business
• Present and communicate results to stakeholders across the company

Here’s what we're looking for

• 8+ years of data science experience, with 3+ years leading a data science team
• Very strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills
• Able to lead both analytical and machine learning/algorithmic data scientists and work streams - we have both on this team!
• Strong programming skills - comfortable with all phases of the data science development process, from initial analysis and model development all the way through to deployment
• Experience applying advanced statistical and modeling techniques to solve business problems
• Excellent communication skills - able to effectively deliver findings and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and compelling fashion
• Experience solving growth problems at consumer or SMB technology companies a plus