Data Science Lead at Founders Factory Africa (FFA)

Founders Factory Africa (FFA) is a pan-African company investing in transformative early-stage ventures, from founders with an idea to ventures raising a Seed round.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Science Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

About the Role

• We’re looking for a Data Science Lead to support our portfolio startups, with a mix of strategy work and hands-on execution.
• You’ll be working across a varied portfolio of ambitious AI startups (and startups that need to implement AI), with an opportunity to work across different domains, technologies, products and infrastructure.
• You will work closely with portfolio company founders and CTOs to understand their business needs and identify opportunities for using data and analytics to drive growth and innovation.
• You will report to our Head Of Product, and work closely with them to craft, and adapt our theory of support for AI businesses.

Responsibilities
You will:

• Engage with our portfolio companies to support their data science ambitionsLead the development of machine learning models and other data-driven solutions for portfolio companies.
• Spot opportunities to use data and algorithms in novel ways to deliver value and improve processes.
• Work with startups across the Founders Factory portfolio to identify their data science capability gaps.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance the use of data science/ML and have a strategic impact on their overall businesses.

Requirements
You should:

• Have good knowledge of Data Science, Statistical Analysis and Data Engineering.
• In particular statistical learning methods, and the ability to work with large, complex and uncleansed datasets.
• Have good coding skills in a language suitable for data science, preferably Python.
• Be able to switch between hands-on execution and strategic advice, as needed.
• Be comfortable with deploying data services and infrastructure to production systems.
• Have high emotional intelligence and empathy for our founders and their teams as well as for your fellow colleagues in the Founders Factory operations team.
• Be organised with a strong attention to detail and an ability to balance detail with the big picture.
• Have a deep passion for defining and solving loosely defined problems.
• Have good communication and collaboration skills.
• Have 5+ years experience, especially deploying commercial data science/ML projects and working collaboratively with team members.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.