SENIOR DIRECTOR, DATA SCIENCE Walmart Global Tech India

15.0 - 19.0 years

0 Lacs

karnataka

On-site

As a Senior Director at Sam's Club, your primary responsibility will be to drive strategic leadership and vision by defining and implementing data science strategies aligned with the company's overall business objectives. You will focus on crafting and operationalizing future-ready membership models, identifying high-impact new club locations, and collaborating with peers to enable Next Best Action (NBA) frameworks and conversational AI capabilities on enterprise data products. Your role will also involve serving as a thought leader on AI/ML innovation and fostering a data-driven culture across the enterprise. You will lead, mentor, and grow a multi-disciplinary data science team, including ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts. It will be essential to build a high-performing team culture centered around innovation, experimentation, and outcomes, while ensuring that talent pipelines and development pathways are aligned with evolving business and tech needs. Collaboration will be a key aspect of your role, as you will partner with various teams such as product, engineering, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, and membership to co-create data products and solutions. You will be responsible for translating complex business questions into clear data science problems and actionable solutions, influencing senior executives and stakeholders with data-backed insights and storytelling. Your role will also involve overseeing the development of ML models and AI systems for key use cases like demand forecasting, personalization, inventory optimization, pricing, fraud detection, and member engagement. It will be crucial to ensure that the models are robust, explainable, scalable, and continuously improved in production environments, while maintaining high standards in model governance, monitoring, fairness, and compliance. In terms of operational excellence and delivery, you will be expected to drive data science project delivery from problem framing to experimentation, development, deployment, and measurement of impact. You will establish OKRs, KPIs, and success metrics for all initiatives and create standardized processes for reusability, documentation, and knowledge sharing. Staying ahead of AI/ML trends and leading experimentation on next-gen algorithms and tools will be part of your responsibility. You will also be required to build partnerships with academia, vendors, and the broader AI/ML community to drive competitive advantage for Sam's Club. To be successful in this role, you should have 15+ years of experience in strategy, data products, advanced analytics, or related fields, with the ability to act as a strategic consultant. Proven experience in driving cross-functional initiatives, understanding of membership models, customer lifecycle metrics, or retail operations, a strong analytical background, familiarity with AI/ML and modern data product infrastructure, excellent communication and executive storytelling skills, and the ability to operate in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment are essential. Your success in this position will be measured by the timely delivery of foundational initiatives, tangible business impact in terms of increased member engagement, optimized club growth strategy, and scalable self-serve analytics, as well as cross-team alignment and adoption of strategic recommendations and tools.,

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