Senior Director, Data Science

7 Months ago • 10 Years + • Data Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Director of Data Science at Product Madness will lead and inspire a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, driving the development of data solutions to enhance gameplay, user engagement, and business outcomes. This role requires a visionary leader with 10+ years of experience, expertise in A/B testing, predictive modeling, and reinforcement learning, and strong communication skills. Responsibilities include defining data science strategy, mentoring the team, partnering with cross-functional teams, and translating complex insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership. The successful candidate will oversee the development and implementation of data science frameworks, ensuring scalability and accuracy across projects and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Must have:
  • 10+ years data science experience
  • 5+ years leadership experience
  • Expertise in predictive modelling, reinforcement learning
  • Proficiency in Python or R
  • Excellent communication & influencing skills
Good to have:
  • Gaming or digital entertainment experience
  • Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Kafka)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure)
Perks:
  • Global team & hubs
  • Fun work environment
  • Weekly breakfasts & lunches
  • Lavish parties
  • Happy hour drinks

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.

What You'll Do

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're Looking For

Qualifications

Education: 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 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.

Why Product Madness?

You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino.  The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United. 

Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.

You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more. 


So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?

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

None

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About The Company

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming),social casino (Product Madness)and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission tobring joy to life through the power of play.For further information visit the Group's website at

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