[Remote] Lead Data Scientist at Scribd

Scribd offers Scribd Flex, allowing employees to choose their daily work-style in partnership with their manager, balancing flexibility with community connections. Occasional in-person attendance is required for all employees to build collaboration, culture, and connection, regardless of location.

GRIT stands for setting and achieving Goals, achieving Results within job responsibilities, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively influencing the Team through collaboration and attitude. It's the standard Scribd holds for employees, inspired by passion and perseverance toward long-term goals.

The role involves owning measurable outcomes across recommendation surfaces, translating product goals into metrics, leading roadmap bets, designing and running experiments, building prototype models, and applying AI like LLMs and embeddings to improve retrieval and ranking.

Essential skills include expertise in defining metrics and experiments, opportunity sizing, model prototyping and productionizing with engineering, and applying AI techniques like LLMs and embeddings for recommendation systems.

A strong candidate demonstrates GRIT by setting and achieving goals, delivering results, innovating solutions, and collaborating positively with the team, with hands-on experience in data science for recommendations, experimentation, metrics, and AI applications.