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Data Science Lead

Elliptic · Washington, D.C. · Remote

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About Elliptic

Blockchain analytics for financial crime risk management and compliance across crypto and digital assets. Innovate with confidence. Backed by SoftBank VF.

About the role

Lead and grow the team. Set objectives with your data scientists in the context of company strategy, own their performance and development, and be the manager who has the difficult conversation rather than deferring it. Level the team against Elliptic's Intelligence career framework and build real development paths. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated experience managing data scientists or machine learning engineers: setting objectives, owning performance including underperformance, and developing people. You can point to someone whose career changed because of how you managed them
  • Experience hiring into a technical team, including defining the bar rather than only sitting on panels
  • Deep, hands on data science and machine learning capability that is current. Strong Python and SQL, and the ability to interrogate large behavioural or transactional datasets yourself and defend your method under challenge
  • A track record of taking an ambiguous question to a delivered dataset, model or capability, including deciding what was good enough
  • Experience with a modern data stack comparable to ours: a cloud data lake, Spark or Databricks, and AWS
  • Clear communication with technical and non technical stakeholders, and the ability to cascade direction to a team so that each person knows why their work matters
More about this role

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy.

Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.

Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., UAE, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and X .

Do you want to lead a data science team on a problem the industry has not solved yet, while still writing code yourself? Are you excited about building the data foundation for how compliance works when the customer is an autonomous agent rather than a person? Are you looking for a values led company where a small team is trusted with a question that matters commercially in months, not years?

You will lead data science inside Elliptic's Intelligence team, alongside Intelligence Collection, Research and Investigations, and Professional Services. This is...

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