Patagonia is on a journey to utilize Data & Analytics to power its purpose – helping save the home planet by leveraging AI to solve meaningful problems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of analytical modeling experience with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in: Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Information Systems, Analytics, or other relevant expertise
- Proven experience in advanced analytics, data science and/or AI leadership roles, ideally within consumer goods, retail, or sustainability-focused organizations
- Experience with multiple applied retail advanced analytics problems such as Forecasting, NLP, Image Recognition, Clustering and Segmentation, Optimization & Attribution
- Familiarity with retail domains such as customer segmentation, demand forecasting, pricing & promotion optimization, inventory optimization, marketing modeling & attribution & product attribution
- Familiarity with GenAI concepts, models and platforms
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or Julia
- Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch and/or Tensorflow
Responsibilities
- Develop and nurture a high-performing AI team
- Guide & develop analysts across the company on advanced analytical opportunities and methods
- Create and oversee the adoption of the AI vision across departments
- Drive insights across many domains including purpose, circularity, finance, strategy, customer, product, planning, merchandising, supply chain, and beyond
- Deliver products & insights that directly power key decisions using statistical models, data mining, and machine learning algorithms
- Drive requirements & needs for the AI Platform, balancing value & cost within our entire data & analytics ecosystem
- Collaborate on the development & management of said platform with engineering and architecture partners
Other
- Strategic – able to see the big picture, and a bias for action to own & drive work accordingly
- Dynamic – ability to navigate breadth and depth of skills from senior leadership presentations to getting hands dirty with design & build efforts
- Curious – continuously learning how to creatively use AI to further our purpose to save our planet
- Collaborative– skilled at working with cross-functional teams, empathetic to your partners in driving to solutions for the greater good
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
