# Data Science Lead at Elliptic

- Company: Elliptic
- What the company does: Blockchain analytics for financial crime risk management and compliance across crypto and digital assets. Innovate with confidence. Backed by SoftBank VF.
- Company website: https://www.elliptic.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $144K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-30
- Apply by: 2026-11-14
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elliptic/f1aef032-6d5d-4a26-a775-775852351b54?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elliptic-data-science-lead/

## 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

Tags: Intelligence

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elliptic-data-science-lead/