Lead Data Scientist, Evolve
$141-184k
+ Variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance and equity grants
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Making vacation rental easy for everyone
Open for applications
Making vacation rental easy for everyone
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$141-184k
+ Variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance and equity grants
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make renting a vacation home easy for both guests and owners by offering verification and 24/7 support.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of science, engineering, and business — designing advanced models, leading experiments, and mentoring teammates, all while partnering with Product, Commercial Strategy, and FP&A to turn models into measurable business outcomes
- 7+ years of applied data science experience, including 3+ years leading ML projects in production
- Prior leadership and/or mentorship experience with a strong record of code reviews, reproducibility, and standards enforcement
- Proven track record of business impact from churn, retention, LTV, or anomaly detection models
- Expertise in survival analysis, causal inference, uplift modeling, anomaly detection, and calibration
- Strong programming experience with Python and SQL; experience with ML ops and orchestration (Airflow, GitLab CI/CD)
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, especially AWS (S3, EC2, SageMaker)
- Ability to partner cross-functionally with Product, Commercial Strategy, and FP&A
- Excellent communicator — able to translate complex analyses into actionable business decisions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field; Master’s or PhD preferred
What the job involves
- At Evolve, data science is the engine that transforms insights into outcomes across the vacation rental ecosystem
- From reducing churn to enabling Dollars-at-Risk scoring and LTV forecasting, our models power retention, revenue growth, and customer trust
- As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be responsible for leveraging data insights to impact strategy and tackling the most challenging prediction problems within the vacation rental industry
- You will lead critical modeling initiatives (churn prediction, Dollars-at-Risk, anomaly detection, causal inference) while ensuring that LTV modeling continues evolving into a decision-ready tool
- You will balance hands-on modeling with mentorship and leadership, ensuring prototypes become production systems and that the data science team delivers with rigor and consistency
- Serve as a senior technical contributor and scientific lead for churn prediction, Dollars-at-Risk, anomaly detection, and LTV forecasting
- Ensure LTV projections are integrated with churn, anomaly, and income signals to deliver a business-ready forecasting tool
- Mentor and develop data scientists, providing code reviews, standards, and career guidance to expand impact beyond yourself
- Partner with Product teams to design and evaluate experiments, and owner lever interventions
- Lead causal inference analyses to better understand drivers of churn, retention, and LTV
- Oversee deployment and monitoring pipelines, ensuring reproducibility, calibration, and incident readiness
- Collaborate with Data Engineering/Infrastructure teams to maintain orchestration (GitLab CI/CD, Snowflake, AWS) and deliver production-ready ML systems
- Establish and enforce best practices for modeling, documentation, monitoring, and governance
- Effectively communicate complex findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Stay current on advances in ML/AI and bring forward innovative methods applicable to Evolve’s business
Our take
Evolve is a hospitality company offering 5-star experiences to rental customers in highly vetted properties. It takes a direct hand in guest experience management, from preparing and vetting properties, to fine-tuning stays in response to client feedback.
Launched in 2011, Evolve came to the game shortly after Airbnb. However, where Airbnb makes vacation rental possible for everyone, Evolve’s aim is to make it easy. This is a difference it has made great pains to stress - perhaps a hangover from the misconceptions it faced from VCs when raising initial funds.
Evolve serves thousands of homeowners, with over 10 million guest customers. As home rentals continue to be popular, and with the market in need of quality control, Evolve’s 5-star focus enables it to stand out and secure a good position for the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$100m
LATE VC
May 2020
$25m
SERIES E
Total funding: $224.2m
Company benefits
- Onsite gym
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- Free travel credit and discounted stays
- Monthly all-company meetings
- Happy hours
- Baseball games and holiday parties
- Community groups
- Paid leave for new parents
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Brian Wegan
(Founder & CEO)They studied at Boston College and the University of Virginia School of Law. They were an Associate Attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, and VP of Exclusive Resorts.
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