Lead Data Scientist

Life360 is hiring a Lead Data Scientist to identify and prioritize revenue opportunities and deliver production machine learning for its Direct Revenue business. The role focuses on personalization, experimentation, and automation, while helping scale production ML and shape the team's roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct deep investigations into revenue-generating options and the data behind them, and use them to size, scope, and measure product changes in Databricks
• Design, build, deploy, and operate production ML systems, from batch inference to online services to online learning models, using the team's feature store and model registry, for personalization, experimentation, and automation use cases
• Partner with Product, Mobile Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, and MLOps to integrate these systems into user-facing features
• Set up monitoring for new ML-based features so their performance and business impact are measured
• Implement lineage tracking for data, code, and model artifacts to keep the ML lifecycle compliant, reproducible, and secure
• Improve the data ecosystem with Data Engineering, including the pipelines that feed experimentation and ML
• Mentor other data scientists and define best practices for advanced analytics and ML system development
• Use Claude Code and other AI tools across data discovery, modeling, and experiment evaluation