Senior Data Scientist

Staff Data Scientist Contract-to-Hire | Hybrid We're seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead the strategy and execution of machine learning initiatives focused on personalization, recommendations, audience growth, and business insights. This is a highly hands-on role where you'll define the data science roadmap while building, deploying, and supporting production machine learning models that directly impact the business. Responsibilities • Lead the data science roadmap for personalization, audience growth, subscriptions, and content recommendations. • Design, build, deploy, and maintain recommendation engines and predictive machine learning models in production. • Own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, retraining, and performance optimization. • Develop near-real-time prediction capabilities to power customer-facing experiences. • Design and analyze experiments (A/B testing) to measure business impact and inform product decisions. • Establish best practices for experimentation, model evaluation, reproducibility, and ML deployment. • Partner closely with Data Engineering and Cloud Engineering teams to build scalable data solutions. • Communicate analytical findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Required Qualifications • Extensive hands-on experience building and supporting production recommendation or personalization engines. • Strong background in applied statistics, predictive analytics, and machine learning. • Experience deploying and managing production ML models; MLOps experience is highly preferred. • Strong SQL skills with experience working in Snowflake and modern BI platforms such as Domo. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction while remaining a hands-on individual contributor. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex analytical insights to business stakeholders. What You'll Bring • Passion for solving complex business problems with data. • Experience delivering measurable business outcomes through machine learning and experimentation. • A collaborative mindset and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. • Strong ownership and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Location: Hybrid Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire If you're passionate about building production-ready machine learning solutions and want to play a key role in shaping an organization's data science strategy, we'd love to hear from you. The projected hourly range for this position is $75 to $100. On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.