Senior Data Scientist - Growth Modelling

Senior Data Scientist -- Growth Modelling(ML, AI)

• You're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge Data Science to drive exponential growth and innovation
• Join a dynamic team that's continuously pushing the boundaries of growth marketing
• Your work will directly impact our largest retail portfolio and millions of customers

Do work that matters

As the Senior Data Scientist working within the CDAO growth modelling supporting Home Buying acquisition, you will use your technical knowledge and understanding of business domain to define, own, drive and deliver highly complex modelling projects independently. You will be involved in and drive multiple initiatives in parallel.

You will work closely with key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams within the CDAO and the home buying teams and the wider business stakeholders to ensure best customer and business outcomes, while solving real-time business problems.

As a community, our data scientists have diverse backgrounds and industry experience, with state-of-the-art machine learning research and development expertise, and in-depth knowledge of structured and unstructured data in the Bank.

See yourself in our team

Home Buying Growth Modelling chapter provides innovative driving data-driven decisions that propel us to new heights in the fintech world. We're a diverse group of data scientists and modelling specialists united by our passion to deliver what customers want in a rapidly changing world.

We are open-minded, curious and passionate about problem solving and data driven innovation at scale. In CBA we collaborate with universities and start-ups, hold regular knowledge sharing, technical training and external talks which aid in growing the data science community and industry reputation.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead innovative approaches to model and accelerate customer acquisition and product growth
• Continuously experiment with and refine predictive models for user behaviour and lifetime value
• Develop agile, iterative A/B testing frameworks to rapidly optimize marketing and product strategies
• Transform complex datasets into actionable growth strategies, always pushing for better solutions
• Collaborate across teams to implement data-driven growth hacks and measure their impact
• Proactively identify new opportunities for growth and efficiency improvements in our acquisition funnel
• Mentor team members and contribute to building a data-driven growth culture

What sets us apart:

• Rapid experimentation culture: We believe in failing fast and learning faster. Our team runs experiments to validate our assumptions, constantly iterating to find the next big growth lever.
• Cross-functional collaboration: We work closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams, ensuring our insights translate into tangible product improvements and marketing strategies.
• Cutting-edge tech stack: We're always evolving our toolkit, currently utilising technologies like Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud-based machine learning platforms to stay ahead of the curve. We also heavily utilise the AutoML platform to further improve our speed of delivery without compromising the quality of our models
• Large Scale impact: Our models and insights directly influence decisions that affect millions of customers in Australia, giving you the opportunity to see your work make a real-world difference.
• Growth-focused metrics: We measure our success not just in model accuracy, but in real business outcomes like user acquisition, retention, and lifetime value.
• Continuous learning: We host regular knowledge-sharing sessions and encourage team members to explore new growth thinking, techniques and technologies.

We are seeking people who can:

Naturally embody a growth mindset in everything you do. You're not just comfortable with change -- you thrive on it. You see challenges as opportunities to learn and improve. You're relentlessly curious, always asking "why" and "what if" to uncover new growth levers. You're not afraid to fail, viewing setbacks as valuable learning experiences.

You're proactive in seeking feedback and continuously work on developing your skills. You're lean and pragmatic in your approach, able to balance perfectionism with the need for speed in a fast-paced environment. You have a knack for identifying the 20% of work that will drive 80% of the impact. You're excited by the prospect of wearing multiple hats and diving into new areas outside your comfort zone.

Most importantly, you're passionate about using data to drive real-world impact. You're not satisfied with just building models -- you want to see your work translate into tangible growth for the business and value for our customers.

We are also interested in hearing from people who:

• Have a growth mindset to embraces challenges as learning opportunities
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a bias towards action
• Can comfortably apply lean principles to data science workflows, focusing on efficiency and value creation
• Can rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions, prioritising speed-to-insight over perfection
• Can build, develop and deploy ML and AI solutions to drive business decisions and outcomes
• Are adept with leading data science and AI projects independently, owning the end-to-end process from data collection to model deployment.
• Can apply Gen AI and traditional statistical and ML predictive modelling techniques to develop and implement scalable AI solutions, ensuring accuracy and reliability of models.
• Can lead cross-functional teams in the design and execution of AI and data science projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Are experienced in working with large and complex data within a corporate environment and automating processes.
• Have a natural talent to communicate and positively influence a diverse and large group of stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Tech skills:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all but experience or exposure to any ML systems and statistical modelling will set you up for success in this role!

• Solid foundational experience leading projects within Data Science, ML models and AI within a financial services organisation or an equivalent large-scale environment.
• Strong hands-on coding and ability to write modular and optimised code using Python, SQL, and Spark/Hive,
• AI-curious - You possess deeper-than-surface-level insights into AI models and preferably have hands-on project experience implementing them for personal or commercial projects
• Degree qualified in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics.
• If you have tech or growth oriented personal projects, websites/blogs or experience with tech start-ups, it is a plus!

Working with us:

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our website.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

APPLY NOW, to live your best life doing your best work with us!

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