Data Science Leader

Full Time Data Science Leader at BioRender (United States)

Data Science Leader

BioRender United States

Date Posted : 10 Aug, 2023

Work Location : Toronto, Canada, United States

Salary Offered : $150000 $250000 yearly

Job Type : Full Time

Experience Required : 6+ years

Remote Work : Yes

Vacancies : 1 available

At BioRender, our mission is to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science. We are passionate about democratizing science communication in order to accelerate scientific discovery and understanding.

We're looking for amazing people to help create the world’s go-to-place and platform where science is communicated. Come join us!

BioRender has revolutionized how 1.5M+ scientists communicate their research all over the world. The app provides personalized content and creative web-based tools to our users.

These powerful tools enable scientists to create beautiful visualizations easily, easy-to-read posters for conferences, and informative slide show presentations, all while giving and receiving feedback in real-time.

We’re looking for our first Data Science leader who’s passionate about accelerating our mission to join us on this journey.

Our teams work closely with product managers, designers, and scientists to solve our customers' problems. We have more than a million scientists on our platform, creating millions of figures relating to their scientific work product.

You will :

• Establish the mission, vision, and strategy for Data Science at BioRender.
• Work closely with your Product, Design, and UXR partners to deeply understand the user, the product problem space, and how data science can accelerate product advancements through meaningful insights generated from data analysis.
• Work closely with our Growth and GTM stakeholders in pulling signal from noise which accounts for all of the ways this signal could be off.
• Build the dream team : identify the highest leverage opportunities to grow the team and hire additional data scientists with the highest need skill sets.
• Identify, align stakeholders, and execute together with our Data Engineering team on appropriate opportunities to advance our product and business goals leveraging advanced Data Science techniques.
• Identify, align stakeholders, and execute together with our Core Product team on how might BioRender leverage recent advances in language and visual models in accelerating its product roadmap.

Our ideal fit :

• Leadership experience in hiring, mentoring, and shaping Data Science as a function.
• 7+ years of Data Science experience, ideally 2+ years at the Principal level.
• Successful track record in driving meaningful business and product outcomes through unique contributions that leverage Data Science techniques.
• Developing, hiring, and onboarding A-player data scientists onto their organization.
• Previous experience working on a large-scale web-based product, ideally in a product lead high growth environment.
• PhD preferred, and at minimum Masters, with a formal education in statistics.
• Strong Communication skills - draw information out of technical and non-technical sources and communicate them back at multiple levels.
• Strong fluency in statistics fundamentals - fluent in data analysis techniques and understands WHY one technique is preferable to another in a given context.
• Builder mindset - being early on in our journey, this role would require someone who is willing and able to roll up sleeves and work closely with our Data Engineering team.

Why join us?

• We are mission-driven and work hard to contribute to the greater good by helping improve scientific communication to accelerate scientific discovery.
• It’s a product that users love! We have a legion of evangelical users.
• We’re remote-first and have team members across Canada and the United States.
• We are profitable and continue to grow revenue north of 100% year over year with users in 200+ countries.
• We’re backed by top investors and accelerators including Y Combinator and Refactor.
• We are committed to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment.

About BioRender

Company Size : 51 - 250 People

Year Founded : 2018

Country : Canada

Company Status : Actively Hiring

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