At Evolve, data science is the engine that transforms insights into outcomes across the vacation rental ecosystem. From reducing churn to enabling Dollars-at-Risk scoring and LTV forecasting, our models power retention, revenue growth, and customer trust. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be responsible for leveraging data insights to impact strategy and tackling the most challenging prediction problems within the vacation rental industry.
Requirements
- 7+ years of applied data science experience, including 3+ years leading ML projects in production.
- Proven track record of business impact from churn, retention, LTV, or anomaly detection models.
- Expertise in survival analysis, causal inference, uplift modeling, anomaly detection, and calibration.
- Strong programming experience with Python and SQL; experience with ML ops and orchestration (Airflow, GitLab CI/CD).
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, especially AWS (S3, EC2, SageMaker).
- Prior leadership and/or mentorship experience with a strong record of code reviews, reproducibility, and standards enforcement.
- Ability to partner cross-functionally with Product, Commercial Strategy, and FP&A.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior technical contributor and scientific lead for churn prediction, Dollars-at-Risk, anomaly detection, and LTV forecasting.
- Ensure LTV projections are integrated with churn, anomaly, and income signals to deliver a business-ready forecasting tool.
- Partner with Product teams to design and evaluate experiments, and owner lever interventions.
- Lead causal inference analyses to better understand drivers of churn, retention, and LTV.
- Oversee deployment and monitoring pipelines, ensuring reproducibility, calibration, and incident readiness.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering/Infrastructure teams to maintain orchestration (GitLab CI/CD, Snowflake, AWS) and deliver production-ready ML systems.
- Establish and enforce best practices for modeling, documentation, monitoring, and governance.
Other
- Mentor and develop data scientists, providing code reviews, standards, and career guidance to expand impact beyond yourself.
- Effectively communicate complex findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current on advances in ML/AI and bring forward innovative methods applicable to Evolve’s business.
- Excellent communicator — able to translate complex analyses into actionable business decisions.
- All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day.
