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Lead Data Scientist, Transparency & Observability - Trust and Safety
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Analytics, or a related quantitative field, including technical leadership of cross-team initiatives.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Economics.
About the job
Leads the architecture and technical strategy for Trust & Safety metrics, observability, data foundations, and AI readiness, supporting internal decisions and external transparency reporting.
What you'll do
- Design observability systems and metrics for the enforcement lifecycle, including monitoring, anomaly detection, alerting, and reporting.
- Build governed, AI-ready data foundations, including data quality practices, ETL pipelines, workflow orchestration, and agent-consumable data systems.
- Lead the Trust & Safety observability and AI-readiness roadmap, partnering across teams and mentoring data scientists and engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience designing scalable data ecosystems, including data modeling, governed analytics layers, and production pipelines on large-scale platforms.
- Strong SQL and Python skills; experience building data quality, monitoring, or observability solutions and organization-wide metrics frameworks.
- Understanding of AI architecture patterns such as RAG, embeddings, and knowledge systems, plus responsible AI practices applied to operational workflows.
- Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Economics.
Nice to have
- Experience in Trust & Safety, regulatory reporting, or compliance; familiarity with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) or similar global frameworks.
- Experience driving program and change management across global, cross-functional teams.
Tools
Hive, Spark, SQL, Python, RAG
AI focus
Leads AI readiness across Trust & Safety, including AI-ready data foundations, agent-consumable data systems, AI architecture patterns, responsible and explainable AI adoption, and taking AI and data solutions from experimentation to reliable production.
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