Director, Data Science
Location: Elkins Park
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s largest work marketplace,
connecting businesses with highly skilled professionals worldwide.
From entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 enterprises, companies trust
Upwork’s platform to access expert talent, leverage AI-powered work
solutions, and drive meaningful business outcomes. Upwork’s
AI-powered platform has facilitated over $20 billion in economic
opportunity for professionals worldwide. With professionals
spanning 10,000 skills, including AI and machine learning, software
development, sales and marketing, customer support, finance and
accounting, and more, Upwork empowers businesses of all sizes to
scale, innovate, and build agile teams. The Analytics, Data
Science, and Economics team is looking for an experienced Director
of Data Science to guide strategy and decision-making across the
company across a variety of teams and levels. Data Scientists at
Upwork work to uncover insights through machine learning techniques
and turn them into relevant recommendations, driving decisions for
all areas of the organization. This is a unique opportunity to
build a function from an early stage. Your Responsibilities: •
Scale and Lead: Hire, mentor, and scale a world-class data and
decisioning science team. • Communicate Clearly: Present insights
with conviction, translating model explanation to key business
drivers and results. • Collaborate & Partner: Work closely with
data engineering to enhance and maintain shared feature stores. •
Build Ways of Working: Reinforce rigorous processes for model
selection, validation, and retraining across the MDS team. •
Business Acumen & Problem Solving: Guide strategic decisions in
partnership with business leaders with a keen eye on business
impact. What it takes to catch our eye: • A degree in Economics,
Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or a related field. •
Leadership experience in Data Science or Econometrics with causal
inference / predictive modeling in Python, SQL & Sagemaker etc. •
Demonstrated Impact: Proven success with supply-demand models,
econometric modelling, market mix, segmentation, and other
optimization tools. • Structured Thinker: Ability to tackle
ambiguity through a hypothesis-driven, data-centric mindset. •
Clarity & Empathy: Keen attention to detail coupled with the
ability to articulate ideas succinctly and in an empathetic manner.
• Sound Judgement: Balance of the art and science of Data Science
while staying objective and pragmatic. • Effective Relationships:
Build and gain trust with relationships to drive decisions in a
consensus manner. • Startup Mindset: Own, operate, lead and
influence in an agile startup environment and high-performing
team.
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