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Patagonia · 22 hours ago

Principal, Head of AI

Ventura, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$195K/yr - $225K/yr

10+ years exp

Patagonia is on a journey to utilize Data & Analytics to power its purpose – helping save the home planet. As the Principal, Head of AI on the Data & Analytics Team, you will be empowered to solve meaningful problems leveraging AI, collaborating with various teams to create a multi-year AI strategy and enhance a data-powered culture.

Consumer GoodsE-CommerceOutdoorsRetailSporting GoodsSports

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Create and drive a multi-year AI strategy that builds capabilities & skillsets, deliver valuable outcomes through projects & programs, and advances our overall company strategies through AI

Build a matrixed AI organization that will use machine learning, GenAI and advanced qualitative & statistical methods to power key decisions

Enhance our data-powered culture, advancing awareness & support for AI capabilities to power our most important opportunities

Drive the technical platform requirements & features needed to support these efforts

Develop and nurture a high-performing AI team

Guide & develop analysts across the company on advanced analytical opportunities and methods

Set hiring standards, mentor team members, and foster a collaborative culture

Build partnerships with consulting partners to help augment your internal team

Create and oversee the adoption of the AI vision across departments

Collaborate with executives and stakeholders to align initiatives with business goals

Drive insights across many domains including purpose, circularity, finance, strategy, customer, product, planning, merchandising, supply chain, and beyond

Deliver products & insights that directly power key decisions using statistical models, data mining, and machine learning algorithms

Provide overall direction for advanced analytics efforts, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives

Identify opportunities for innovation and growth through data-driven insights

Drive requirements & needs for the AI Platform, balancing value & cost within our entire data & analytics ecosystem

Collaborate on the development & management of said platform with engineering and architecture partners

Qualification

AI strategy developmentAdvanced analytics leadershipMachine learningData sciencePythonCloud data platformsGenAI familiarityStatistical modelingCuriosityCollaborationAdaptabilityStrategic thinking

Required

10+ years of analytical modeling experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in: Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Information Systems, Analytics, or other relevant expertise

Proven experience in advanced analytics, data science and/or AI leadership roles, ideally within consumer goods, retail, or sustainability-focused organizations

Experience with multiple applied retail advanced analytics problems such as Forecasting, NLP, Image Recognition, Clustering and Segmentation, Optimization & Attribution

Familiarity with retail domains such as customer segmentation, demand forecasting, pricing & promotion optimization, inventory optimization, marketing modeling & attribution & product attribution

Familiarity with GenAI concepts, models and platforms

Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or Julia

Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch and/or Tensorflow

Cloud-based data platform experience – Snowflake/Databricks/AWS/Google/Azure

Experience enabling a broader community of contributors (e.g. data analysts) in analytics efforts

Experience with Product-Centric, agile delivery

Experience applying CI/CD best practices in an analytics context

Preferred

Familiarity with data pipeline tools such as DBT, Fivetran, Stitch, Boomi, LogicApps

Business intelligence (BI) tools experience (Tableau, PowerBI, metabase, etc)

Company

Patagonia

Glassdoor4.2

Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted.

Founded in 1973

Ventura, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://patagonia.com

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