Director of Data Science @ adidas

I am currently the Director of Data Science at adidas, responsible for all Trading Sciences global products with focus on our digital channels. My 3 core responsibilities are:

• Set the strategic technical vision for Data Science products, both in terms of performance/added-value and rollout of the products to different markets;
• Highly technical strategic and operational phases of developing a Machine Learning platform for Data Scientists in AWS;
• People manager of 3 teams of internal and external Data Scientists and Machine Learning engineers.

Some extra details:

• Manage contracting and strategy with external partners (e.g. AWS);
• In charge of +1M yearly budget for external capacity;
• Added value impact of +50M;
• Technical involvement, sometimes hands-on to teach and explain technical concepts that the team needs to adapt;
• Start a collaboration with AWS ML Labs for a high-risk / high-reward cutting edge Data Science use case based on graph neural networks;
• Lead the creation of hackathons to solve out-of-the-box business problems;
• Establish DRY principles for code and data;
• Very strong collaboration with the Data Platform team to ensure the adidas platform components address Data Science requirements.