Lead Data Scientist
Pay Range: $166,600.00 – $227,115.00
Brand: Victoria's Secret
Location: New York, NY
Location Type: Hybrid
Job Area: Information Technology
Employment Type: Full-time
Job ID: 04OIB
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.
We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.
YOUR ROLE
The Lead Data Science Consultant will be a seasoned data science leader in the customer & marketing areas partnering effectively with enterprise marketing & customer insights teams to scale AI & data science capabilities, build Agentic decision-support tools with measurable operational impact and drive AI adoption. He/she shall play a hands-on technical role in building and architecting data science solutions by working with junior team associates. He/she would be a data science consultant collaborating closely with the VP, Data Science & core business stakeholders to deliver outstanding business outcomes for problems within the customer & marketing areas:
- MarTech data foundations, journey optimizations, lifecycle modeling,and agentic AI activations for path to loyalty,
- Customer segmentations on loyalty/value, price sensitivity, brand/category/product affinities,
- A/B testing, measurement frameworks & Causal modelling,
- Personalization & recommendations – personalize through the right channel, with the right content for the right product,
- Lookalike, affinity, CLV & propensity models,
- Generative AI initiatives.
You will work directly on the data science & AI problems that have the most impact on VS&Co’s digital e-commerce and customer/marketing areas.
YOUR IMPACT
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Partner effectively with customer, marketing & digital teams to scale shared AI/ML capabilities across the company, build decision-support tools with measurable operational impact and drive AI adoption.
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Engage with cross-functional partners (marketing ops, digital merchants, customer analytics, etc.) to translate use cases into data science & AI problem statements.
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Build conversational AI agents to deliver faster insights that drive customer strategy on acquisition, retention & growth.
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Partner across enterprise and build/deploy AI agents for strategic enterprise priorities.
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Deliver ML models with strong performance, high reliability, and measurable business impact; ensure solutions are usable, measurable, and trusted by front-line teams.
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Conduct design reviews and solution reviews, represent data science at the enterprise technical council to drive scalable architectures and agentic AI commerce solutions.
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Collaborate and implement the overall data science strategy for strategic enterprise initiatives. Evaluate, recommend, & implement state-of-the art algorithms and methods with measurements at scale.
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Maximum Salary: $227,115.00
VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.
YOUR EXPERIENCE
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10+ years of relevant experience in data science & analytics role preferably in retail domain.
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Strong experience building & deploying data science models for customer & marketing use cases.
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Strong programming skills. Expert level proficiency in Python, SQL.
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Strong written & verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate complicated statistical analytical concepts & solutions to business stakeholders in a simplified comprehensible manner.
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Excellent presentation skills & ability to shape course of action through persuasion & negotiations.
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Collaborate actively with topic owners to understand and develop advanced analytics / data science.
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Strong consulting background with experience & exposure driving insights and data science-based value outcomes.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance
An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
401(k) savings plan with company match
Merit increases and performance bonuses
On-the-spot recognition and rewards for a job well done
Employee stock purchase program
Merchandise discounts
Medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage
Tuition reimbursement
Commuter benefits
Working and Living in New York City

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