VP, Head of Data Science

What’s in it for me? • Competitive salary and compensation structure • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule • Frequent firm-wide social events and activities • Excellent environment for learning and growth • Further benefits, depending on location About the Role We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to lead Penta’s Data Science team: someone who still designs, builds and reviews real solutions while owning execution, delivery and team development. You will be accountable for turning data science capability into shipped, dependable value for our clients and advisory teams, in alignment with our product roadmap. Penta’s technology makes client outcomes sharper, faster, more differentiated and harder to replace. The Data Science team’s success is measured by how much it improves live client work, not by technical elegance in isolation. Our core data science focus is natural language understanding at scale, processing millions of articles daily across stakeholder sentiment, topic identification over time, competitive peer-set selection, summarisation, contextualisation and other processing of unstructured content. Most use cases are creative chains of multiple steps drawn from data processing, exploratory analysis, fundamental ML, NLP, SQL, LLMs and integration into our live systems. What you’ll do Lead the team • Manage, coach and develop Penta’s Data Science team, setting priorities, planning capacity and creating a high-trust, high-output delivery culture. •…