Data Science Lead

Company: UP.Labs
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: April 26, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description: Lead Data ScientistAs the Lead Data Scientist at UP.Labs, you'll play a key role in building new startups from 0 to 1 and creating practical outcomes from emergent technologies and accessible data.You'll act as the principal expert while leading data science for a technology venture. You will collaborate with your venture team to design and implement data pipelines, guide data science best practices, oversee data monitoring, and build AI/ML solutions. Your duties will include assisting in validating the initial business concepts, ideating and validating AI/ML use cases, developing prototypes and proof of concepts, and working closely with the product and engineering team members to drive practical outcomes.In this role, you will:

• Act as the primary owner of Data Science, Analytics, and in some cases Data Engineering as a subject matter expert.
• Build out a team and incubate expertise amongst several venture start-ups.
• Create rapid proofs of concept, then scale into functional MVPs to turn concepts into tangible reality.
• Mentor and support early-stage venture teams to achieve bigger outcomes at a greater scale in data density and system complexity.
• Cross-pollinate learnings, best practices, and insights between multiple ventures to drive continuous improvement of Engineering and Data Science at UP.Labs.
• Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, and inclusive environment where all ideas and opinions are equally valued.You should have:
• 8 years experience within Data Science, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning domains and their practical applications.
• Experience working in a startup environment; member of a founding team ideal.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning algorithms like random forest, linear and logistic regressions, gradient boosting, classification, algorithms for building, evaluating, deploying and monitoring ML models from scratch.
• Familiarity and preference for working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments such as startups and growth-phase tech companies.
• Hands-on and end-to-end product build, development, and delivery experience.
• Experience working with or managing and leading remote, distributed teams including full-time data scientists, engineers and vendors/contractors.
• Awareness of the latest in Data Science and Data Engineering trends, as well as new use cases within the ML Space.
• Experience working with major cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS) and cloud-native software architectures.
• Experience with Database and Warehousing solutions, e.g. Data Bricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT and respective public cloud data infrastructure service offerings from AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Strong experience in collaborating with Product teams to find effective solutions.
• Strong communication skills put to use by explaining technical vision and deeply technical concepts to a variety of multidisciplinary team members.
• An open, curious, and humble mindset that builds on to our open, inclusive, and collaborative environment.Additional desired competencies:
• Experience with systems planning in the domains of transportation, aviation, or digital simulation would be valuable.
• Familiarity with AB testing setup and analysis.
• Familiar with Reinforcement Learning for practical use cases.UP.Labs Summary:We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.Our platform is unique in three ways:
• Risk: We reward our entire team and ecosystem of partners with meaningful equity.
• Technology: We build and launch scalable technology products that form the basis for each venture.
• Industry Focus: We stay focused on the underlying fabric of society mobility and transportation.We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture's life cycle: from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business. We rapidly ideate concepts from scratch and vet them for early indicators of product-market fit.Location: Santa Monica, CAHybrid Work Environment: In-office from Monday-Thursday; remote on Fridays.Travel: 6+ weeks per year.
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