Assistant Director, Data Science (Marketing)

What’s Under the Hood

DriveTime Family of Brands is the largest privately owned used car sales finance & servicing company in the nation. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Dallas, Texas, we create opportunities and improve the lives of our customers and our employees by placing a focus on putting the right customer, in the right vehicle, on the right terms and on their path to ownership.

You can find DriveTime’s tire tracks across the nation with dealerships where we embrace a transparent pricing approach, eliminating haggling and gimmicks and reconditioning centers where we breathe new life into pre-owned vehicles. Regardless of where you’re located, if you’ve got DRIVE and you’re looking to make an impact, we’d love for you to make a difference with us!

That’s Nice, But What’s the Job?

This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas or who need sponsorship now or in the future are not eligible for hire at this time.

In short, as the Assistant Director of Data Science you will lead a team of Data Scientists responsible for advanced analytical solutions that include predictive analytics, machine learning, simulation, and optimization techniques to that generate strategic insights and enable more effective business solutions. You will utilize technical acumen and in-depth understanding of business processes and practices to collaborate with our business operations in the creation and execution of operational and strategic plans. In addition, this role collaborates with IT, Business Intelligence and other areas to build major improvements to analytical processes and systems. 

In long, the Assistant Director of Data Science is responsible for: 

• Advising Senior Leadership on the development of data science solutions that enhance the company’s long-term business strategies. 

• Overseeing the creation of machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation. 

• Maintaining relationships with academic and industry thought leaders to ensure the enterprise has access to cutting-edge thinking and technologies. 

• Collaborating with other analytical leaders to fulfill the strategic direction of the business through data and information exploration, research of emerging technologies and analytical techniques, and long-term defined/project specific strategic assignments. 

• Partnering with enterprise analytical and IT teams to build DriveTime’s core capabilities and processes. 

• Identifying additional resource needs ranging from IT investments, 3rd party support or additional analysts. 

• Understanding the business direction, environment and strategies, to identify and recommend solutions that influence decision makers and drive change. 

• Directing the design and construction of large and complex data sets from large amounts of structured and unstructured data (internal and external) to enable analytical solutions. 

• Building and leading a high performing team of experts in advanced analytics. Develops team reputation as highly skilled experts in the field of data science. 

So What Kind of Folks Are We Looking for?  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to talk and write with confidence, charisma and competence for a wide variety of audiences including management. 

• Intellectual curiosity.  Why? What? How?  Do you find yourself always wanting to learn more and broaden your knowledge base?  If so, this could be the role for you. 

• Creative problem solving. You are always looking beyond the obvious for continuous improvement. 

• Strong business acumen. Ability to collab