Senior Data Scientist | Growth & Transformation

Red Ventures
Charlotte, NC
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior data scientists with end-to-end ML experience who thrive in a hybrid work arrangement and can explain technical work to clients.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with end-to-end ML production experience and a history of building complex AI solutions over months
    — “a track record of building and owning ML solutions in production end to end, including at least one complex solution that ran over several months”
  • Individuals who can design evaluations and validate results against business metrics
    — “Design the evaluations that show whether a model or agent works: offline test sets, automated graders checked against human labels, regression suites that run before every release, and online experiments that tie output quality to business outcomes”
  • Candidates who can mentor junior data scientists and collaborate closely with engineering partners
    — “Act as a technical resource for junior and mid-level data scientists through code review, pairing and help with problem framing”

Things to consider

  • No visa sponsorship available, which may limit eligibility for non-US citizens
    — “This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa”
  • Hybrid work arrangement requires at least three days in the South Charlotte, NC office weekly
    — “This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC Headquarters (Tuesday through Thursday)”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with LLM agents and agentic workflows in your resume and interview responses
    — “Experience building LLM agents or agentic workflows, in a product or to automate your own work”
  • Emphasize your ability to explain model trade-offs in business terms during interviews
    — “explaining the trade-off between model performance and business value and when a simpler approach is the right call”
  • Showcase your ability to work with clients and present technical solutions clearly
    — “Work directly with clients and partner teams to scope problems, present results and recommend next steps”
  • Demonstrate your expertise in Python, SQL, and model deployment practices
    — “Expert-level Python and SQL, and proficiency in model deployment and ML operations”
  • Include examples of how you have automated tasks using agentic tools like Claude Code
    — “Use agentic tools such as Claude Code to automate repeatable parts of your own work and the team's”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • built and owned ML/AI solutions end to end
  • designed and evaluated LLM agents
  • worked directly with clients to scope problems and present results
Typical background
PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field6+ years of experience in data science

Skills & requirements

Required

Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceData ModelingPythonSQLData AnalysisData VisualizationModel Deployment

Preferred

Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language ModelsAgentic Workflows

Stack & domain

PythonReactClassificationRegressionClusteringOptimizationExperimentationLLM AgentsPrompt And Tool DesignOrchestrationDeploymentMonitoringAgentic ToolsClaude CodeLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingOrganizational AbilitiesFinanceHealthcareTelecommunicationsDeregulated EnergyCredit CardsDeposits

About the role

Original posting from Red Ventures

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC Headquarters (Tuesday through Thursday) and work fully remotely on Fridays each week. 

RVGT, a Red Ventures company, empowers partners through a unique blend of high-scale proprietary distribution, data models, AI-enabled applications, and strategic client partnerships. We help our clients unlock significant and sustainable growth across the home services and financial services ecosystems, ranging from telecommunications and deregulated energy to credit cards and deposits. As a Red Ventures company, we have more than 20 years of experience building strategic, long-standing relationships with some of the world’s most powerful brands across industries like financial services, retail, real estate, and entertainment.

We believe the next phase of advantage will come from integrated operating systems that connect decisioning, execution, intelligence, and governance into a shared foundation that improves over time. RVGT is investing in that future through our Growth Operating System, a set of reusable workflows, agents, context layers, and governance mechanisms designed to help our teams and our partners drive growth more efficiently, more intelligently, and at greater scale.

Our Data Science team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to build and own ML and AI solutions for our partners in broadband and telecommunications. Our work spans call routing and prioritization, landing page and buy-flow personalization, propensity modeling, and LLM agents that support sales and service conversations.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You'll design, build and evaluate solutions yourself, with a particular focus on agents and on proving they work. You'll also be someone we trust in front of clients: walking a partner through how a model works, what the results mean and what we recommend next. 

What You'll Do

Build and own ML/AI solutions end to end in production, from problem framing through deployment, monitoring and iteration

Build LLM agents and agentic workflows, from prompt and tool design through orchestration, deployment and monitoring

Design the evaluations that show whether a model or agent works: offline test sets, automated graders checked against human labels, regression suites that run before every release, and online experiments that tie output quality to business outcomes

Apply traditional ML (classification, regression, clustering, optimization, experimentation) where it fits, and LLM-based approaches where they add value

Build and maintain production-grade code bases with engineering partners, including testing, CI/CD and monitoring

Work directly with clients and partner teams to scope problems, present results and recommend next steps, including when a simpler solution is good enough to ship

Act as a technical resource for junior and mid-level data scientists through code review, pairing and help with problem framing

Use agentic tools such as Claude Code to automate repeatable parts of your own work and the team's

What We're Looking For

Degree and years of experience: Bachelors Degree’s + 6 years of experience OR Master's Degree + 4 years of experience OR PhD + 2 years of experience

A track record of building and owning ML solutions in production end to end, including at least one complex solution that ran over several months

Experience building LLM agents or agentic workflows, in a product or to automate your own work, using frameworks such as LangGraph or the Claude Agent SDK, or model APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic or similar

Experience designing evaluations for ML or LLM systems: building test sets, choosing metrics that reflect what the business cares about, validating automated graders against human judgment, and catching regressions before they ship

A strong foundation in traditional ML techniques such as classification, regression, clustering and optimization, including their limitations and how to evaluate them with appropriate statistical rigor

Experience presenting technical work directly to clients or senior stakeholders, including explaining the trade-off between model performance and business value and when a simpler approach is the right call

Expert-level Python and SQL, and proficiency in model deployment and ML operations (version control, CI/CD, unit testing, job orchestration, containers)

Experience mentoring other data scientists through code review, pairing or project guidance

Experience with Databricks, MLflow or AWS is a plus; experience with call center, telecom or marketplace data is a bonus

Experience shaping a product or data science roadmap with product partners: identifying where ML can create the most value, proposing what to build next, and getting stakeholder buy-in

Understanding of how the business makes money, which KPIs matter, and how an AI/ML solution moves them

Who Thrives Here

The people who do best in this role do excellent technical work and can stand behind it in a client meeting. When a partner asks whether something works, they show the evaluation instead of asking for trust. They know when a model is good enough to ship, and they can explain that call in business terms. When they catch themselves doing a task by hand for the third time, they build an agent or workflow that does it for them. Along the way, they make the data scientists around them better.

Compensation:

Total Cash Compensation Range: $155,000 – $200,000 per year

Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)

Life Insurance

Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Holiday Pay

401(k) with match

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program

Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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