Job Description

About The Role

As Data Scientist II, you will work with a data science team and cross-functional partners to solve business challenges, promote data-driven decision-making with advanced data analysis and machine learning and develop products that strongly impact Kohl’s revenue and customers. As a senior member of the Data Science organization, you will be the technical expert for a team that builds models for initiatives such as recommender systems, NLP, image recognition, segmentation and user behaviors. You will take a mentorship role within the DS team and work collaboratively with other business areas.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead exploratory data analysis to cull actionable insights
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
  • Develop and implement statistical and machine learning models
  • Fine-tune, optimize and ensure the scalability of models and algorithms
  • Aid in designing experiments to answer targeted questions
  • Identify and drive continuous improvement of key business metrics in an assigned business functional area
  • Drive adoption and usage of data science products and models
  • Translate data science outputs into business outcomes and value delivered
  • Mentor and guide junior data scientists, providing technical expertise and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development
  • Stay up to date on the latest trends and developments in data science and technology and identify implementation opportunities to support innovation at Kohl’s
  • Additional tasks may be assigned

Required

What Skills You Have

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
  • 3+ years of progressively complex Data Science in the Recommendation Systems field, solving problems at scale
  • Extensive experience developing and deploying state-of-the-art algorithms using machine learning, statistical and optimization methods
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, GBQ, Spark MLlib, Keras or scikit-learn
  • Experience in one or more areas of advanced data science (Recommender Systems, NLP, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Generative AI, etc.)

Preferred

  • Master’s degree and/or Ph.D
  • Retail experience
  • Marketing models

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