[Remote] Principal Data Scientist ML Planning

What you'll work on

• Develop and execute the data science strategy for inventory and logistics planning, aligning with broader business goals.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact data-driven projects that optimize the company’s planning processes and drive operational efficiency.
• Design, develop, and refine predictive models for demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and workforce allocation.
• Leverage advanced machine learning and optimization techniques to solve complex supply chain and planning problems at scale.
• Deploy the ML models into production, run experiments, and enable performance monitoring in production.
• Collaborate across functions: Work closely with product, business, and engineering partners to initiate, develop, and deploy solutions with cross-functional support.
• Communicate insights: Present outcomes and insights to business stakeholders and leadership.
• Enhance data infrastructure: Identify gaps in existing data, create data product specifications, and collaborate with Engineering teams to implement enhanced data tracking.
• Promote best practices: Partner with Analytics team members and other functions to share insights and best practices, ensuring consistency in data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Drive automation: Continuously strive for automated and production-ready solutions to improve efficiency and scalability.

Skills

• 7+ years of experience as a data scientist in relevant industry, with hands-on experience applying machine learning, predictive modeling, optimizations, and GenAI to optimizing inventory and logistics planning.
• Deep knowledge in statistical, optimization and machine learning techniques.
• Data science libraries in a programming or scripting language (proficiency with Python and SQL).
• Model productionalization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, etc.
• Move fast, be a team player, and be kind.

Education Requirements

• MS or PhD in statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, operations research or another quantitative field.

Company Overview

• Quince is an affordable luxury brand that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices— direct from the factory floor. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.quince.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Quince has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.