Job Summary:

We are seeking a passionate Director – Data Science to lead innovation and
analytics across our research, marketing, scheduling, and sales functions. In
this role, you will guide the development of machine learning models using large
and complex data sets. A solid background in data analysis, hands-on experience
in building and deploying machine learning models, and solid working knowledge
of Python/R and statistics are essential.

Key responsibilities:

* Build analytical models such as forecasting, optimization, recommendation
engines leveraging the vast amount of available user/behavior/consumption
data to enrich the end-user experience
* Develop and refine sophisticated AI models centered on audio and video data
to elevate the quality of our content.
* Possess a working knowledge of cutting-edge technologies such as large
language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), and demonstrate their
practical application.
* Leverage advanced analytics to decode social media data employing sentiment
analysis, theme generation, and Named Entity Recognition (NER)



to gain deeper
insights into user interactions.
* Write modular, efficient code to streamline the production and deployment of
models.
* Provide analytical thought leadership and ensure best in class analytic
service delivery for business initiatives
* Be proactive and entrepreneurial in identifying new problems that can be
solved through analytics
* Capable of structuring a business problem to an analytical problem and able
to set up the model framework by identifying relevant approaches and
techniques and driven for implementation
* Taking the lead and liaising with business and other stakeholders,
discussing, presenting, and bringing closure to projects
* Deploy an agile process for analytics - generating hypotheses, running
experiments, and sharing of outcomes/insights, etc. with business
* Support the deployment, maintenance, and ad-hoc analysis required for
existing or new analytical models
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📌 Director - Data Science (Mumbai)
🏢 JioStar
📍 Mumbai