Lead Data Scientist

Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.

Toronto, Canada
About Cohere

Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will own the analytical lifecycle, including framing business questions, designing experiments, and delivering actionable recommendations. You will develop predictive models for forecasting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and opportunity sizing. You will manage and mentor analysts and data scientists, set analytical priorities, allocate resources, and partner with product, research, sales, and finance leaders.

Requirements

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Git
  • Statistical inference
  • Experimental design
  • Predictive modeling
  • Analytics leadership
  • Data science leadership
  • BigQuery
  • dbt
  • Looker
  • Airflow

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead experimentation programs, including A/B tests, multi-armed bandits, and causal-inference studies
  • Develop and deploy predictive models for forecasting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and opportunity sizing
  • Manage and mentor a team of analysts and data scientists
  • Define analytical priorities, allocate resources, and deliver initiatives from question to production
  • Partner with product, research, sales, and finance on growth strategy

Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
  • Health and dental benefits
  • Mental health budget
  • RRSP matching, 401K, and Pension Scheme
  • 100% parental-leave top-up for up to 6 months
  • Arts and culture, fitness/wellness, quality-time, and workspace-improvement benefits
  • Education and learning stipend
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation
  • Remote-office travel budget and annual company offsite
  • Co-working benefit
  • $500 home-office stipend