Commercial Data Scientist

Synthesia Synthesia · Multimodal · EUROPE · Commercial

Commercial Data Scientist at Synthesia, an AI video platform company, responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining data science models to improve revenue outcomes and customer experience. Projects include customer health scores, lead intent scoring, churn/expansion predictors, segmentation, and experimentation frameworks. Requires end-to-end model lifecycle management, from problem definition to production deployment and maintenance, with a strong production mindset and collaboration with commercial stakeholders and Data Engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Sales, RevOps, CS and Marketing to translate ambiguous commercial questions into measurable problems and model-ready datasets.
  2. Build and iterate on predictive and classification models (e.g., health scoring, intent scoring), with rigorous validation, monitoring, and clear success metrics.
  3. Deploy models into production in collaboration with Data Engineering (batch jobs, pipelines, feature generation, versioning, and observability).
  4. Maintain and improve existing models: performance monitoring, retraining strategies, drift detection, and reliability.
  5. Make models usable: deliver clear outputs, documentation, and guidance so commercial teams can act on insights.

Skills

Required

  • Several years of industry experience as a Data Scientist (or similar), building statistical/ML models end-to-end.
  • Strong foundations in applied machine learning and statistics, with good judgment about model complexity vs. impact.
  • Production mindset: you’ve worked with deployed models, and understand monitoring, retraining, data quality, and operational constraints.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience in data wrangling and feature engineering.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, including explaining trade-offs and model limitations.
  • Comfort operating in a high-autonomy environment: you can plan your work, drive alignment, and ship without being handed tickets.

Nice to have

  • Experience working on commercial / go-to-market problems (rev intelligence, lead scoring, churn, expansion, attribution, forecasting).
  • Experience working closely with modern data stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow) and production ML patterns.
  • Experience designing model outputs that integrate cleanly into commercial workflows (dashboards, alerts, CRM signals).

What the JD emphasized

  • building statistical/ML models end-to-end
  • worked with deployed models
  • production mindset
  • high-autonomy environment

Other signals

  • AI video platform
  • build, deploy, and maintain data science models
  • improve revenue outcomes and customer experience
  • customer health scores, lead intent scoring, churn/expansion predictors, segmentation, and experimentation frameworks