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Co-founder / Chief Data Scientist

Permanent contract
Brussels
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: April 30, 2019
No remote work
Experience: > 3 years
Education: Master's Degree

Startup Factory
Startup Factory

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Job description

Do you want to become a co-founder of this exciting data science startup, and leverage your data science skills for other startups, scale-ups and companies with a positive impact? You will be responsible for all data science topics, and in parallel build and manage a team of data scientists to grow the company. You will get a significant part of the shares, and will be able to define the vision and value proposition together with the other co-founder / CEO.

As co-founder / Chief Data Scientist, you will be responsible for :

  • Defining the vision and value proposition of the startup together with the other co-founder / CEO
  • Identifying data science opportunities at clients and prospects, developing use cases and convincing them of the value
  • Deep-diving into the initial projects’ content to research the state-of-the-art and develop an approach for the project and subsidy application, together with our partners
  • Building and managing a team of data scientists, by hiring the right profiles, defining their training needs and supporting their development

Preferred experience

As co-founder / Chief Data Scientist, you possess the following competencies and skills :

  • You are passionate about an entrepreneurial adventure
  • You have a can-do mentality, focusing on solutions rather than problems
  • You are an expert in at least some aspects of AI/Data Science
  • You have a good understanding of key data science methodologies and their most valuable business opportunities
  • You have experience in working on data science projects in different industries and/or for different applications
  • You are keen to learn new skills on a daily basis
  • You are able to manage plenty of stuff at the same time
  • You want to work in a dynamic, quick-changing environment
  • You possess strong communication skills

Recruitment process

  • Call 15 minutes
  • Business case or take-home exercise
  • Face-to-face meeting @ costation