Founders Factory Africa (FFA) is a pan-African company investing in transformative early-stage ventures, from founders with an idea to ventures raising a Seed round.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Data Science Lead
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
About the Role
- We’re looking for a Data Science Lead to support our portfolio startups, with a mix of strategy work and hands-on execution.
- You’ll be working across a varied portfolio of ambitious AI startups (and startups that need to implement AI), with an opportunity to work across different domains, technologies, products and infrastructure.
- You will work closely with portfolio company founders and CTOs to understand their business needs and identify opportunities for using data and analytics to drive growth and innovation.
- You will report to our Head Of Product, and work closely with them to craft, and adapt our theory of support for AI businesses.
Responsibilities
You will:
- Engage with our portfolio companies to support their data science ambitionsLead the development of machine learning models and other data-driven solutions for portfolio companies.
- Spot opportunities to use data and algorithms in novel ways to deliver value and improve processes.
- Work with startups across the Founders Factory portfolio to identify their data science capability gaps.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the use of data science/ML and have a strategic impact on their overall businesses.
Requirements
You should:
- Have good knowledge of Data Science, Statistical Analysis and Data Engineering.
- In particular statistical learning methods, and the ability to work with large, complex and uncleansed datasets.
- Have good coding skills in a language suitable for data science, preferably Python.
- Be able to switch between hands-on execution and strategic advice, as needed.
- Be comfortable with deploying data services and infrastructure to production systems.
- Have high emotional intelligence and empathy for our founders and their teams as well as for your fellow colleagues in the Founders Factory operations team.
- Be organised with a strong attention to detail and an ability to balance detail with the big picture.
- Have a deep passion for defining and solving loosely defined problems.
- Have good communication and collaboration skills.
- Have 5+ years experience, especially deploying commercial data science/ML projects and working collaboratively with team members.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online