Perpay
Data Scientist Manager
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2025
- Experience
- At least three years directly managing data scientists, in addition to substantial individual-contributor experience.
About the job
Leads Perpay’s Data Science team while remaining a hands-on contributor building, deploying, and overseeing production models for credit, risk, marketing, and customer-facing products.
What you'll do
- Own the team’s hiring, performance management, and technical strategy; partner with data and functional leaders on organizational direction.
- Build and ship production modeling work, including contributions to risk decisioning, card-portfolio modeling, and LLM initiatives.
- Set modeling standards and collaborate with Engineering, Risk, Marketing, Merchandising, Finance, and Compliance.
What they ask for
- At least three years directly managing data scientists.
- Substantial individual-contributor experience, kept current.
- Ability to design, code, and ship production modeling work while managing a team.
Tools
Python, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, statsmodels, PyMC, AWS
AI focus
Expand the use of LLMs in internal workflows and customer-facing surfaces; use modern LLM tooling where it improves work or team throughput.
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