Why you?

You are someone who brings your life experience to create products that truly make a difference in the lives of working parents. You use data to inform roadmaps, but you also know when you have enough information for action. You love the challenge of prioritizing user needs amongst multiple business objectives. You enjoy growing from diverse perspectives and coworkers while collaborating with others in a cross-functional team, and across departments.

You are looking for something more from your job. Maybe a bigger problem to solve with both immediate and long term impact, or perhaps you just need a mission you can believe in every day. You are scrappy and collaborative while looking to join an inclusive and supportive culture with a bias for action. You dig a balanced startup life and can wrestle challenges with grace. You love big, interesting problems and bringing solutions to the masses while making sure it feels personal, authentic, and connected. If this sounds like you, we'd like to talk.

Why us?

The Mom Project is a pioneering, remote-first venture-backed startup with roots in Chicago & Cincinnati. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world and are lucky to be surrounded by an incredible team of advisors, including Serena Williams.

The Mom Project is a platform and community leading a cultural movement that matches companies with diverse talent. To date, our platform has unlocked over $200M in earning potential by connecting our 500,000+ moms and mom-supporters with opportunities at world class brands like Apple, Accenture, Etsy and Nike… and we are just getting started!

Our team is growing as we push to rewrite the narrative for working women at every stage of life. We believe women should be able to choose both a successful family life AND career aspirations without sacrificing one over the other. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us and our mission forward every day. We strive towards inclusion and that means everyone is comfortable bringing their authentic and best self to work every day.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Data Science to lead our growing team, which currently has two senior data scientists! The data science team was fully established in summer 2021 and the team is putting the foundational pieces we need in place. We are looking for a lead who can continue building out the data science team and collaborate with other teams to get models into production.

Our data science team is full-stack, meaning we own the DS process end-to-end from training models to API deployment. We code in Python, and we use technologies like Docker, Redshift, FastAPI, and PyTorch. We work in two-week sprints with daily scrums, bi-weekly planning, demos, and retros.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have US residency at the time of application

What you’ll do:

• Manage, mentor and coach data scientists
• Shape the roadmap for data science with the team’s product manager
• Facilitate communication with other teams, including product managers and engineering managers, to ensure data science needs are on other teams’ roadmaps
• Collaborate with our platform team to ensure we have the infrastructure we need for data science
• Define processes and standards for the team to follow
• Jump in code reviews
• Advocate for best data practices throughout the organization including thinking about what data we should be collecting
• Evangelize data science throughout the company
• Recruit data scientists to build up the team
• Represent data science with external vendors

The skills and abilities you’ll need to succeed:

• You have been the people manager of a data science teams before (at least two years of experience)
• You have built out roadmaps for data science teams
• You’re excited about joining a new team and developing best practices
• You like working in a startup environment; part of your job will include establishing the infrastructure needed for data science
• You can collaborate with folks across the company, e.g. product, engineering, finance, operations, and sales
• You enjoy thinking about industry best practices for data science projects
• You have experience writing production Python code that follows best software engineering practices including writing unit tests and Dockerizing projects
• You care about ensuring that the algorithms the team builds are not biased against specific groups of people
• You enjoy working with a team of goofy people who do things like name all of their projects after candy

Why you’ll love working for TMP:

Compensation & Benefits:

• Base Compensation
• Full medical, dental, vision
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Generous Paid Parental Leave
• Family planning benefits through Progyny
• Generous PTO (that people actually use!)
• 401K match
• Career Pathing
• Flexibility/Autonomy
• Talkspace

Let me see those Perks, Perks, Perks!

• An incredible remote team that will support and champion your work
• Casual Culture: because work should be a place you want to be
• Health and Wellness stipend
• Learning and Development stipend
• Work From Home Stipend

We're just getting started. Join us in building the future of work.