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Grounded in that purpose and focused on our mission to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners everywhere, we work every day to help people feel more confident, supported, and capable in caring for the animals they love-showing up with the products, services, care, and guidance they need, whenever they need it.\nBringing that to life takes exceptional leaders.\nLeadership at Chewy is guided by our Operating Principles, which define how we lead, make decisions, develop talent, serve our customers, and grow our business. We value leaders who think strategically, stay close to the customer, and aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves alongside their teams. They solve complex challenges, build high-performing organizations, and partner closely with senior leaders to shape the future of Chewy.\nYour Opportunity\nWe are hiring a Director, Data Science to own and lead all Ads Data Science for Chewy-fully accountable for the science strategy and production implementation behind Chewy’s onsite and offsite Chewy Ads.\nYou will lead a team of data scientists building the intelligence layer across the full advertising marketplace:\n (a) Supply-side algorithms - search, relevance, ranking, real-time bidding, bid-boosting, premium positioning, and dynamic auctions.\n (b) Demand-side algorithms - budgeting, pacing, budget allocation/reallocation, keyword recommendations, bid recommendations, campaign setup and auto-optimization, and advertiser ROAS optimization.\n (c) Portfolio management - orchestrating Chewy’s onsite and offsite Ads portfolio for optimal, balanced performance across shopper experience, advertiser outcomes, and Chewy revenue.\nThis is a rare seat: you will define how modern AI-LLMs, generative AI, foundation models, and multimodal systems-shows up in a real advertising marketplace, not as demos, but as durable production systems that move customer and advertiser outcomes at scale. As a core member of Ads leadership, you’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business partners, and represent Ads science to Chewy senior leadership.\nWhat You’ll Own\nFull ownership of Chewy Ads Data Science across onsite and offsite channels-strategy, roadmap, model portfolio, delivery, and scientific quality bar.\nLead, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists; set standards for modeling, experimentation, MLOps, and research-to-production excellence.\nAdvance state-of-the-art applied science across the three pillars above: embeddings and representation learning, CTR/CVR prediction, multi-objective ranking, auction and bidding dynamics, budget optimization, ROAS optimization, causal measurement, and marketplace balance.\nDefine and execute Chewy Ads’ AI / GenAI strategy, including LLM-powered workstreams such as:Generative creative and offer assistance\nIntelligent keyword and query recommendation\nBid recommendation and automated bidding guidance\nAuto-campaign setup and optimization copilots for advertisers\nRetrieval-augmented systems for relevance, discovery, and ranking quality\n\nPartner with Product and Engineering to ship production systems that improve shopper relevance, advertiser ROI/ROAS, and Ads business performance.\nEstablish rigorous experimentation and decision frameworks so science investments map clearly to customer and revenue impact.\nRepresent Ads science to senior leadership-translating complex work into clear strategy, tradeoffs, and recommendations.\nRaise Chewy’s external scientific presence through publications, talks, and recruiting at leading ML/AI/advertising venues (encouraged, not required).\nWhat You’ll Need\nAdvanced degree (M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience) in a quantitative field (e.g., CS, ML, Statistics, OR, Applied Math, Data Science), or 10+ years building and leading large-scale ML/optimization systems.\nProven experience leading data scientists / applied scientists and owning end-to-end science delivery in production-ideally in ads, search, recommendations, personalization, or marketplace systems.\nDeep hands-on fluency with modern ML for ranking and prediction at scale: deep learning, embeddings, retrieval, multi-objective optimization, and online experimentation.\nExperience with advertising optimization systems spanning supply and demand-auctions, real-time bidding, pacing, budget allocation, keyword/bid recommendations, auto-campaign optimization, and ROAS optimization under real-time, constrained-spend settings.\nDemonstrated experience productizing LLMs / generative AI in real systems (e.g., RAG, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, quality/safety controls)-ideally in ads, search, or ecommerce.\nStrong foundation in mathematics, statistics, and scientific method; a high bar for model quality, causal measurement, and production reliability.\nExperience operating distributed training/serving pipelines and partnering with Engineering on scalable deployment.\nExceptional communication: able to influence senior executives and cross-functional partners with clarity and technical credibility.\nNice to Have\nDirect experience in digital advertising / retail media / sponsored products.\nEcommerce or retail marketplace experience.\nExperience with cloud ML platforms (e.g., AWS SageMaker or equivalent) and modern GenAI tooling.\nTrack record of hiring and developing senior scientific talent.\nWhat You’ll Get\nChewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, please contact .\nChewy offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with company matching, paid time off, employee discounts, and additional wellness and support programs designed to help Team Members thrive personally and professionally.\nThe base salary range for this role is $198,500 - $300,000.00.The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.\n\nWe offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.\nExempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.\nChewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact .\nTo access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7836,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Parental leave","Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["E-commerce Platforms","Pet Food, Supplies & Care"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T15:36:29Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 184 · green card filings: 110","filings_12m":184,"filings_prev_12m":257,"green_card_filings_12m":110,"median_offered_wage_usd":149813,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":4}],"liveness":{"score":18,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.645,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":54,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":300000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/chewy-director-data-science","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/chewy-director-data-science.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T01:01:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1284,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":709617},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=709617"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fchewy-director-data-science"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fchewy-director-data-science"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fchewy-director-data-science"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/chewy-director-data-science\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fchewy-director-data-science"}]}