Senior Data Science Director

1 Week ago • 10 Years + • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Senior Director of Data Science at Product Madness, you will lead and inspire a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers. You'll define the data science strategy, aligning it with organizational goals, and drive the development of cutting-edge data solutions to enhance gameplay, user engagement, and business outcomes. Key responsibilities include mentoring the team, partnering with cross-functional teams (product, operations, marketing), implementing data science best practices (A/B testing, predictive modeling, reinforcement learning), and translating complex insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership. You'll also oversee the development and maintenance of data science infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability. Success in this role requires a PhD or MSc in a relevant field, 10+ years of data science experience (including 5+ years in leadership), and expertise in various modeling techniques, including reinforcement learning. Strong communication and influence skills are crucial for success.
Must have:
  • PhD or MSc in relevant field
  • 10+ years data science experience
  • 5+ years leadership experience
  • Expertise in predictive modeling, reinforcement learning
  • Proficiency in Python or R
  • Experience with big data technologies and/or cloud platforms
  • Exceptional communication and influence skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in gaming or digital entertainment
  • Experience in ML Ops and deploying models at scale
  • Experience in reinforcement learning and Agentic systems

Job Details

As the Senior Director of Data Science, you will be a transformational leader, responsible for guiding and inspiring a talented team of data scientists and machine learning engineers. In this role, you’ll drive the thought leadership and development of cutting-edge data solutions that enhance gameplay, improve user engagement, and optimize business outcomes. You will be a key partner for cross-functional teams—including product management, game operations, and growth—leveraging your data expertise to deliver engaging mobile games as well as industry-leading marketing performance.

Key Leadership Responsibilities

  • Visionary Leadership: Define and communicate a clear vision and strategy for data science, ensuring alignment with organisational goals while inspiring your team to innovate and excel.
  • Mentorship & Development: Provide ongoing mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to foster growth and enhance team performance. Create a collaborative and high-performance team culture that attracts top talent and encourages long-term career progression.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor and thought leader across the organisation, particularly with senior executives and cross-functional leaders, advocating for data-driven decision-making and empowering business units to leverage data science insights.
  • Change Management: Lead the adoption of data science practices and continuous improvement, managing agility, ROI, and keeping the company up to date with evolving industry trends.
  • Ownership & Accountability: Assume full accountability for the data science function, from project execution to final integration and outcome assessment, ensuring that your team delivers impactful results on time and within scope.

Key Technical Responsibilities

  • Data Science Strategy & Best Practices: Drive best practices in A/B-testing, predictive modelling, user clustering and reinforcement learning, to continually raise the bar on data science value add.
  • Infrastructure Ownership: Lead the development of data science frameworks, including A/B testing and other data science tooling. Ensuring scalability, accuracy, and reliability across projects.
  • Product & Engineering Collaboration: Oversee integration of data science solutions into games and platforms, partnering closely with product and engineering to ensure end-to-end solution success.
  • Growth & Marketing Innovation: Collaborate with growth and marketing teams to develop advanced prediction models that support a dynamic, high-performance marketing landscape.
  • Insight Communication: Translate complex analytical insights into actionable recommendations, presenting them to the senior leadership team to inform critical business decisions.

What we need from you

PhD or MSc in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or a related field.

Experience: 10+ years of data science experience, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role, managing teams in dynamic and collaborative environments.

Technical Skills:

  • Proven expertise in clustering, predictive modelling, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian statistics.
  • Experience in reinforcement learning and Agentic systems would be ideal
  • Experience in ML Ops and deploying machine learning models at scale.
  • Proficiency in Python or R, and familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Kafka) and/or cloud platforms (e.g., GCP or Azure).
  • Industry Knowledge: Experience in gaming or digital entertainment is a strong plus.
  • Communication & Influence: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from junior analysts to executive leadership.

What We're Looking For

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Why Product Madness?

As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino. 

With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.

We live by our People First principle. Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us. We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day.

But don’t just take our word for it. In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.

So, what’s stopping you?

Our Values

  • People First

    We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

  • MAD for More

    Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

  • Champion Together
    We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

  • Globally Inclusive

    We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

  • Customer Focused

    We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

    Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations

Up to 25%

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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About The Company

Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 7000 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be.


Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day.  


Come and join us – let’s play!


𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 @𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵.𝘤𝘰𝘮, @𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮, @𝘱𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥.𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘰𝘳 @𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵.

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