Data Science Lead

The role

You will lead a data science team within the Intelligence team as a player-coach. You will manage team direction, performance, and growth while remaining hands-on with coding and research. You will also own model governance and build data collections for compliance.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the data science team
• Hire new data scientists
• Build data collections for compliance
• Own model governance for the team's models
• Lead Elliptic's data science work and research questions
• Stay technically hands on by writing code and reviewing work
• Own existing commitments like clustering, attribution, heuristics and labelling
• Partner across functions including Intelligence Collection, Research, and Product
• Set the AI working standard for the team

Required qualifications

• AI fluency
• Demonstrated experience managing data scientists or machine learning engineers
• Experience hiring into a technical team
• Deep, hands on data science and machine learning capability
• Strong Python and SQL
• Ability to interrogate large behavioural or transactional datasets
• Track record of taking an ambiguous question to a delivered dataset, model or capability
• Experience with a modern data stack including a cloud data lake, Spark or Databricks, and AWS
• Clear communication with technical and non technical stakeholders
• Based in Washington, D.C. or willing to relocate there
• US citizenship

Nice to have

• Work on agentic systems, LLM agents or autonomous transaction flows
• Experience building a large dataset or collection from nothing
• Blockchain or on chain data experience
• Experience in payments, fraud or risk data science
• Having grown a team from a few people to a full department
• A PhD or equivalent research training, or a record of published applied research
• Experience in a regulated environment or with model risk management frameworks

Benefits

• Hybrid working: option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• Remote Work Budget: $650
• L&D Budget: $1,000 annual
• 25 days of annual leave
• 8 US Public Holidays
• Birthday Leave: an extra day off
• 16 weeks fully-paid enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k with company match
• Full access to Spill mental health support

Before you apply

• US citizenship

About the company

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, providing a platform for extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains. Founded in 2013, it is headquartered in London.