Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems

Manager, Data Scientist - Recommendation & Personalization Systems Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives. Team Description Join an elite Applied AI team within AI Foundations, operating at the intersection of deep research and massive real-world impact. We are pioneering the next generation of personalized customer experiences across Capital One's web and mobile applications, leveraging our high-scale ML models. Our core mission involves architecting and deploying cutting-edge personalized recommendation engines. This is powered by original research into homegrown Foundation Models, advanced Reinforcement Learning techniques, and a state-of-the-art scalable [... source excerpt omitted ...] refront of the field, actively focusing on areas such as Causal Inference, Transformer-based architectures, and sophisticated Recommender Systems. Role Description In this role, you will: Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity o [... source excerpt omitted ...] irst. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers. Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them. Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms. A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retriev