Senior Data Scientist

The role

You will lead the research process alongside the Chief AI Officer to find value in Foley's data. You will turn data into models, product features, and new offerings by working with business leaders and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Partner with the Chief AI Officer to set the research agenda and run the process from hypothesis to recommendation
• Work with leaders, customers, and subject matter experts to find where data science moves the business
• Develop forecasts, leading indicators, and models to help leadership see where the business is heading
• Lead EDA, build and test hypothesis trees, engineer domain-driven features, and build production-ready models
• Validate models with holdouts, leakage checks, calibration, error analysis, and bias and fairness review
• Size the value of Foley's data, identify gaps, evaluate external data, and help shape and price data products
• Explain model functionality and confidence to executives, customers, and engineers
• Turn findings into product proposals and define success metrics before launch

Required qualifications

• Senior-level, end-to-end data science experience including EDA, hypothesis development, feature engineering, modeling, and validation
• Exceptional written and verbal communication for presenting to executives and non-technical audiences
• Strong business analytics skills
• Consulting or consulting-adjacent experience including leading a research or analytics process
• Strong statistics, including recognizing noise, leakage, and confounding, and communicating uncertainty
• Fluency in Python and SQL
• Experience partnering with engineering to ship models to production

Nice to have

• Experience in transportation, logistics, or fleet, such as trucking, DOT/FMCSA, insurance, or safety
• Experience in regtech or compliance, such as background screening, FCRA, drug testing, or other regulated data
• Experience with forecasting, scenario planning, or leading-indicator work used by an executive team
• Experience turning a model or analysis into a product customers pay for
• Experience with data sourcing, licensing, partnerships, pricing, or data product strategy
• Experience with graph data, entity resolution, or text and document data with LLMs

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Wellness programs
• Employee assistance program

About the company

Foley is a modern SaaS company with an all-in-one, AI-ready platform that helps transportation, construction, distribution, and utility businesses operate faster, smarter, and safer.