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Robots & Pencils · 1 day ago

Data Practice Lead/director

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityDirector/Executive
date7+ years exp

Robots & Pencils is a company that harnesses the power of data to help clients achieve meaningful digital transformation. They are seeking a Data Practice Lead who will blend advanced data knowledge with real-world problem solving, leading a data practice within the engineering organization.

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Responsibilities

With the help of your team lead design, developing, and deploy predictive and prescriptive models across a variety of domains (e.g., customer behavior, operational efficiency, personalization)
Analyze large, complex datasets to extract key insights and translate them into strategic recommendations
Communicate findings clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, using compelling data knowledge and visualization
Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to identify opportunities and frame data science solutions
Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and software developers to build scalable, data-powered applications
Mentor junior data engineers, data architects and data scientists, supporting technical development and scientific rigor
Contribute to the development of reusable assets, tools, and processes to increase team velocity and impact

Qualification

AWSData Mesh architectureDatabricksSnowflakeMachine learningStatistical analysisCloud AI toolsBusiness acumenTechnical leadershipMentoringCommunicationTeam collaboration

Required

7+ years of professional experience in data science, statistics, and applied machine learning
Understand the skills required to build and lead a data practice team, and be able to hire the appropriate skills to the team
Building and deploying Data Mesh architectures
Strong experience in AWS tools and infrastructure and cloud AI and data tools essential
Demonstrated success deploying data models into production environments using APIs, pipelines, or ML frameworks
Background in quantitative disciplines such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering
Experience with tools such as Databricks, AWS data tools such as SageMaker, Glue etc and Snowflake is essential

Preferred

Experience in working in other cloud environments like Azure would be an advantage
Experience of Palantir would be an advantage
AWS cloud certifications or ML specialization credentials are an advantage

Company

Robots & Pencils

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Robots & Pencils develops digital strategies and products that deliver exponential impact to our clients.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://robotsandpencils.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Robots & Pencils has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2022 (1)
2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
unknown
Key Investors
Slack Fund
2022-04-26Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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Leonard Pagon
Chairman & CEO
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Nathan Carmon
Chief Operating Officer
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Recent News

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Robots & Pencils Opens Studio for Generative and Agentic AI in Bellevue
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Robots & Pencils Plans Seattle-area Expansion with Studio for Generative & Agentic AI
2025-12-02
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Robots & Pencils Brings Its Applied AI Engineering Expertise to AWS re:Invent 2025
2025-11-07
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