Director, Data Science
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strategic leadership role in data science, with a chance to influence product innovations and business outcomes. Strong salary with growth potential and a focus on collaborative innovations.
- Strategic leadership role with significant influence over AI initiatives
- Competitive compensation and benefits structure
- Demands extensive data science experience (7+ years)
- Emphasis on mentorship and collaboration in team dynamics
Pros
- High-level strategic role overseeing multidisciplinary teams.
- Innovation-driven environment with a focus on cutting-edge AI technologies.
- Opportunities for significant personal and professional growth.
Cons
- High expectations may create a competitive atmosphere.
- Intensive focus on project timelines could pressure work-life efficiency.
- Requires a blend of technical and soft skills for team management.
Who it's for
Senior / Executive • Hybrid with flexible onsite requirements
Good fit
- Senior data scientists aspiring to take on leadership roles
- Leaders looking to innovate in the tech space
- Professionals who thrive in a collaborative culture
Not recommended for
- New graduates or individuals without senior roles in data science
- People uninterested in team dynamics or leadership tasks
- Candidates seeking roles with less responsibility or pressure
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Our mission is to provide manufacturers and other industrial sectors with insights into the health of machines, processes, and operations to transform how people work and what they can create. A leader in Machine Health and Process Health solutions, Augury uses purpose-built AI technology, trained by industry experts and the world’s largest data library, to help companies realize the full potential of their production. Together with our customers, we are pioneering Production Health by removing friction created by competing business goals so companies can improve business outcomes, empower their workforce, and achieve sustainable production- all at the same time.
We are seeking a Director, Data Science to oversee a multidisciplinary group of Data Scientists, owning the end-to-end lifecycle from research to production deployment. You will solve real-world problems and have a direct impact on innovating Augury’s core technology. You will be at the forefront of technology, utilizing advanced machine learning approaches and the latest big-data technologies with a unique dataset.
You will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership, guiding the development of cutting-edge ML/DL models while ensuring alignment with business goals. This is both a strategic and hands-on role, where you will inspire, mentor, and scale a high-impact data science team.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, grow, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists.
- Define the strategic roadmap to ensure alignment with product and business priorities.
- Drive innovation by researching, prototyping, and deploying advanced ML/DL models into production.
- Foster a culture of experimentation, technical excellence, and collaboration across product and engineering teams.
- Translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for executives, customers, and cross-functional partners.
- Ensure scalable, production-ready AI solutions by overseeing the full model lifecycle, data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Establish best practices for Data Science in a SaaS environment, including experimentation frameworks and model governance.
What You Bring
- M.Sc./Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics or relevant engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Scientist, delivering models into production.
- 4+ years of proven leadership managing Data Science teams, ideally in a SaaS or technology company.
- Strong expertise in Machine Learning and Deep Learning; time series modelling or RNN is a plus.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and modern ML frameworks.
- Experience in sampling, sensing, signal processing, and physics is a strong advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to connect technical solutions to business outcomes and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Proven capabilities in leading multidisciplinary research.
- A track record of scaling teams, systems, and processes in a high-growth environment.
Augury is a people-first organization. We believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and we welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences. We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We believe that diversity is more than just good intentions, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Augury is a proud equal opportunity employer, we strive to create a work environment in which everyone, all applicants, employees, customers, guests, and vendors feel safe and comfortable. We commit to maintain a workplace that is free of any type of harassment and does not tolerate anyone intimidating, humiliating, or hurting others. We prohibit willful discrimination based on age, gender, ethnicity, race, color, religion, political opinions, sexual orientation, sexual identity or expression, military or veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
