Drimva

Chime

Tech Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Growth and Marketing

$199K–$275K

San Francisco, CA, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026

Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, California, United States
Experience
7+ years developing machine learning models for marketing and growth; 5+ years leading data science teams.
Education
M.S. or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related STEM field.

About the job

Leads a data science and machine learning team building and deploying models that improve customer acquisition, engagement, and retention across growth and marketing.

What you'll do

  • Lead data scientists and ML engineers and guide model development and deployment for acquisition, conversion, and retention.
  • Set strategic direction for marketing and growth ML, overseeing models such as lifetime value, churn, segmentation, attribution, and referrals.
  • Partner across marketing, product, growth, and engineering; establish ML practices for validation, deployment, monitoring, and experimentation.

What they ask for

  • 7+ years developing marketing and growth machine learning models from inception to production.
  • 5+ years leading data science teams.
  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related STEM field.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL; hands-on production ML deployment experience.

Pay

$199,000 — $275,000 USD base salary

Tools

Python, SQL, AWS, Kafka, Airflow, Redis, MySQL, Postgres

AI focus

Develop and deploy growth and marketing ML models, including lifetime value prediction, churn risk modeling, segmentation, attribution, referral recommendations, and personalized communications; use AI/ML to optimize the customer funnel.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)