Lead Data Scientist

About this role

DemandTec is a retail analytics and demand science platform used by grocery retailers and CPG suppliers to run pricing, promotions, markdowns, and trade fund decisions on connected, AI-powered intelligence rather than siloed point solutions. Backed by Longshore Capital, we're modernizing a market-leading core into an AI/ML-native, composable platform — with a live network of 7,800+ connected CPG suppliers, the largest and hardest-to-replicate asset in the category.


We're building the next generation of our solution platform for retail and analytics: GenAI-powered agents, real-time decisioning, and connected optimization across pricing, promotions, markdowns, and trade funds. This team sits at the center of that build.


We're hiring a Lead Data Scientist to own the technical roadmap for the ML and GenAI capabilities powering our next-generation retail and analytics platform — from price optimization and demand forecasting to promotion effectiveness and AI-driven copilots. You'll set the technical bar for the data science organization and lead a distributed team, including our Poland-based data scientists.


Requirements
Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for ML/AI models powering price optimization, demand forecasting, promotion effectiveness, and markdown recommendations
• Architect and lead development of GenAI-powered agents and copilots (e.g., pricing copilots, demand intelligence agents) in partnership with engineering and product
• Set technical standards for model development, validation, and MLOps across the data science organization
• Mentor, coach, and grow a distributed team of data scientists, including direct oversight of the China and Poland-based team
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate retail and trade-promotion business problems into Data Science solutions
• Make build-vs-buy calls on LLM/GenAI tooling and vendor platforms together with ENG
• Present model performance, technical roadmap...