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WILLIAMS-SONOMA INDIA
JOB DESCRIPTION

Work Location : Pune, India
Job Title : Data Scientist (Lead)
Business Unit : WSI Corporate Technology, Pune/Hyderabad

Lead Data Scientist

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Scientist to join our agile team. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in advanced analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI, with a proven ability to lead complex projects from ideation to deployment. This role involves driving innovation, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, data-driven solutions in the retail sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced predictive models, agentic AI solutions, and statistical analyses to solve high-impact business problems.
• Analyze large, complex datasets to extract actionable insights and guide strategic decision-making.
• Drive exploratory data analysis (EDA) and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.




• Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define analytical objectives, data requirements, and success metrics.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to data scientists and ML engineers, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• Architect and optimize scalable data pipelines and workflows using Spark and other big data technologies.
• Oversee the integration of agentic AI models with traditional machine learning approaches, ensuring robust, autonomous, and multi-modal solutions.
• Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve the performance of deployed models and analytics solutions.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI, ML, and data science.
• Contribute to the development of data science standards, code reviews, and knowledge sharing within the team.

Criteria

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent

📌 Data Scientist (Pune)
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