Director - Data Science

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JioStar

Mumbai Full-Time 4–8 yrs exp Posted 6 hours ago · Apply by Sep 14, 2026

Job Description

Job Summary:

We are seeking a passionate Director – Data Science to lead innovation and analytics across our research, marketing, scheduling, and sales functions. In this role, you will guide the development of machine learning models using large and complex data sets. A strong background in data analysis, hands-on experience in building and deploying machine learning models, and solid working knowledge of Python/R and statistics are essential.

Key responsibilities:

Build analytical models such as forecasting, optimization, recommendation engines leveraging the vast amount of available user/behavior/consumption data to enrich the end-user experience
Develop and refine sophisticated AI models centered on audio and video data to elevate the quality of our content.
Possess a working knowledge of cutting-edge technologies such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), and demonstrate their practical application.
Leverage advanced analytics to decode social media data employing sentiment analysis, theme generation, and Named Entity Recognition (NER) to gain deeper insights into user interactions.
Write modular, efficient code to streamline the production and deployment of models.
Provide analytical thought leadership and ensure best in class analytic service delivery for business initiatives
Be proactive and entrepreneurial in identifying new problems that can be solved through analytics
Capable of structuring a business problem to an analytical problem and able to set up the model framework by identifying relevant approaches and techniques and driven for implementation
Taking the lead and liaising with business and other stakeholders, discussing, presenting, and bringing closure to projects
Deploy an agile process for analytics - generating hypotheses, running experiments, and sharing of outcomes/insights, etc. with business
Support the deployment, maintenance, and ad-hoc analysis required for existing or new analytical models
Ensure appropriate capture of data sources and metrics to share across the enterprise
Assist in identifying techniques and technology requirements to develop capabilities

Skills and attributes for success:

Strong project management and team management skills
Ability to extract, aggregate, structure, and manage large volume data sets using database querying language e.g. SQL
Strong knowledge of innovation in analytics, analytics use cases and technologies.
Exceptional problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to structure complex problems and develop solutions
Strong knowledge of statistics with experience generating models using techniques such as segmentation, clustering, multivariate regression, decision trees, forecasting, time series, nonlinear modeling, optimization models
Proficiency with one of the statistical programming tools R/Python is a must
Demonstrated expertise in handling audio and video data, with experience in building models for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), as well as leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI).

Preferred education and experience:

Graduate or Masters degree in engineering, math, statistics, economics, business analytics or relevant quantitative discipline
Strong academic performance with emphasis on analytics and business application is required
8 to 11 years of experience in advanced analytics – predictive analytics, statistical analytics, clustering, segmentation