Principal Data Scientist, Digital Innovation
About The Position
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be our data science guru, our technical trailblazer, and the mastermind behind a scalable, adaptive data lakehouse and analytical layer that transforms raw data into strategic insight. Your work will empower our global formulators and food scientists to unlock the full potential of over a century of collective knowledge, guiding experimentation, formulation, and product development with precision and purpose. You will accelerate innovations - bringing the potential of people, nature and technology together to make life better. We are looking for a trusted advisor on technical strategy, a mentor to your peers, and a champion of impactful data science. If you’re ready to build something extraordinary, apply now and help us shape the future of predictive formulation.
Requirements
- Years of work experience in predictive modeling, data science and analysis – where you have demonstrated the ability to set the long term technical vision and see it through (with a strong preference for those who have done this within a Google ecosystem).
- Proven delivery of multiple major data science initiatives providing measurable value and insight to business stakeholders - articulating and translating business questions, using statistical techniques to arrive at a solution using available data.
- Technical leadership – from your degrees in relevant quantitative fields, on top of the ability to utilize data scripting languages (e.g. SQL, Python) and understand statistical methods and advanced modeling techniques (e.g. machine learning, Bayesian inference).
- Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to inspire and speak about technical concepts to business, technical and lay audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Preferably a strong background in Food or Global ingredient solutions – to understand the challenges and opportunities of new solution formulation using data.
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and implementation of a robust data framework that evolves with our innovation business.
- Structuring and scaling a dynamic data lakehouse and democratic analytical layer in Google Cloud, which supports our vision for using data to guide ingredient selection, predictive formulation strategies, and customer-centric innovation.
- Collaborating with technical resources to stand up scalable machine learning pipelines that can quickly adapt to new challenges.
- Developing and deploying machine learning models tailored to evolving business needs.
- Mentoring the next generation of data scientists - fostering a culture of excellence.
- Supporting the Director – Innovation, Digital to select & drive use cases that will accelerate our ability use data to hone in on the right solutions for our customers.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based pay
- Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
- Learning, training, and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement
- A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally
- Exclusive discounts on everyday products, services, and travel
- medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with an competitive company match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
