CareerPlan

Staff Data Scientist, Forward Deployed

San Francisco, CAFull-time$195k–$266k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead technical engagements for strategic customers to tailor predictive models to their go-to-market strategies and ensure results impact their sales pipeline.

Role type

Staff Data Scientist (Forward Deployed)

Builds

Custom predictive models for enterprise customers and reusable product patterns

Domain

B2B SaaS, Predictive Analytics, Marketing Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model deployment, supervised learning on tabular/behavioral data, tree-based models (XGBoost, Random Forest), feature engineering, model evaluation and calibration, Python, SQL, stakeholder management, product mindset

Preferred skills

B2B go-to-market data expertise, LLM-based tools, data platforms (SingleStore, Hive, Spark on AWS), team leadership

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end customer engagements from discovery to production deployment, tailor models for specific customer use cases, partner with customer marketing and revenue teams, translate technical results for business leaders, productize recurring patterns, mentor data scientists

Seniority

Staff, 10+ years experience, hands-on IC with team leadership