Associate Director, Data Science - IT Healthcare

Our Team

Chewy’s Pet Health is on a mission to build innovative solutions for our customers and our partner vets, such as our recent launch of Chewy’s first Telehealth service and Pet Insurance. Engineering plays a meaningful role in defining and implementing our platform roadmap. We take time to understand the “why” before we start crafting up the “how.” We celebrate engineering successes and promote blameless and continuous learning and improvement in engineering culture. We set the bar high for delivering production-ready code by adopting CI/CD and DevOps engineering best practices. Our engineers are encouraged to contribute ideas and code to our own platform and to other partner teams.

Our Opportunity:

Chewy is in search of an Associate Director of Data Science to coordinate the data science team dedicated to Rx within our IT Healthcare organization in Boston, MA. In the role of a Data Science Associate Director, your duties will include leading all aspects of the systems, processes, and infrastructure essential for the operation of Chewy’s pharmacy business. Your team will develop  and modern data platforms to improve pharmacy operations, aid business intelligence users, and support advanced AI/data science models. This is a high visibility leadership position that will have exposure across our entire technology organization that will provide the opportunity to influence the vision, development and implementation of data engineering practices that will scale and grow the Chewy pharmacy business.

What you'll do:

• Partner with multi-functional teams to deliver critical initiatives that reduce costs and improve order fulfillment speed and efficiency for pet parents.
• Develop and implement scalable data pipelines to transform prescription and dispense data for order lifecycle tracking and detailed fulfillment funnel analysis.
• Collaborate with data scientists to establish standard processes, adopt emerging models, and drive large-scale production deployment of new models that unlock business insights.
• Build positive relationships across all levels and functions of the organization.
• Recruit, develop, and lead data engineers and data scientists on complex, multi-functional initiatives.
• Provide hands-on leadership by defining and managing team priorities.

 

What you'll need:

• Proven track record of leading high-impact data science and engineering projects that result in significant business outcomes.
• 8+ years of data science experience, including 5+ years managing and mentoring technical teams.
• Solid ability to structure and solve complex, ambiguous problems.
• Proficient in one or more AI platform, including AWS Bedrock.
• Proficient in SQL, Python or R, Tableau, Snowflake, DBT; skilled at thriving in fast-paced, data-driven environments.
• Excellent communicator with senior leadership and multi-functional partners.
• Entrepreneurial mentality.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a related field) or equivalent work experience.
• Position may require occasional travel.

Client-provided location(s): Boston, MA

Job ID: 7073989

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-09T18:35:09