Data Science Manager - Space Planning Intelligence

The Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: We are transforming how merchandising decisions are made through AI-powered solutions and automation. The Data Science Manager – Space Planning Intelligence plays a critical role in the technical design and delivery of AI-enabled planogram automation capabilities. This role partners closely with Strategy and Process teams to ingest business requirements and translate them into a scalable technical roadmap, overseeing the development of business rules, AI/ML algorithms, and optimization techniques that accurately reflect merchandising intent. As the technical owner of the solution, this leader designs the end-to-end technical strategy to integrate tools and platforms together into a cohesive, scalable process, ensuring the underlying math, automation logic, and learning systems are sound, efficient, and adaptable. As a people and technical leader, the Data Science Manager leads and mentors a team of data scientists and solution engineers, setting coding standards, QA processes, and deployment best practices to ensure solutions are robust, maintainable, and production-ready. Acting as a trusted technical advisor to Strategy and business partners, this role evaluates proposed initiatives for technical feasibility, identifies advanced analytical and AI opportunities, and translates high-level business goals into impactful automated systems. The role also collaborates closely with fellow Data Science Managers to align approaches, manage talent effectively, and deliver clear, executive-level communication that drives alignment across all levels of the organization.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• 8 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

• 9+ years of experience in business intelligence and analytics
• Previous people or project team management experience
• Expertise in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Mastery running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
• Proficient with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
• Mastery utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
• Proficient in Prescriptive Modeling like optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP
• Demonstrated proficiency in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting

Responsibilities

• People Management & Team Leadership - Provide leadership, mentorship and coaching to Data Scientists (individual contributors) and evaluate performance, execution, and contribution; Attract, retain and develop top talent to build an effective and high performing team; Support team in development of business knowledge and technical skills with clear plans and regular assessment of progress; Ensure appropriate processes and job-specific requirements are properly documented; Develop onboarding and training plan for both technical and soft skills that will ensure high level of capabilities within the team; Manage resources effectively to align with strategic initiatives and business needs; Foster collaboration with team members to develop a supportive and engaged team; Support team in the design and development of algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights; Drive team's results and celebrate accomplishments
• Project Management - Prioritize and assign projects by striking a balance between a variety of factors, like funding, return on investment, innovative or challenging work, among others; Manage programs for the team to ensure consistency of execution, balance of resources and quality solutions; Collaborate with program managers and business partners to align on objectives and expectations and ensure project teams deliver against them; Serve as escalation point for any issues or difficulties with specific projects; Provide executive updates to leaders at all levels of the organization on program effectiveness, team accomplishments, summary of findings and recommended solution, and explain internal and external impacts
• Strategy & Business Development - Leverage extensive business knowledge and relationships to seek out new business opportunities to leverage data science and advocate for team's skills; Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams; Ensure alignment with IT support model, collaboration, tools and governance to enable data scientists to be most effective in executing their roles; Collaborate with other data science managers across the organization to establish high level strategy and optimize talent management
• Technical Exploration & Development - Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science, technical skill sets, and additional data sources; Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects; Ensure best practices and vision for data analysis and model productionalization are leveraged

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager