# Director, Data Science

About the Role In this role, you lead a cross-functional Data Science team responsible for building and deploying AI and ML solutions that drive measurable business impact across Gap Inc. brands. You combine strong domain expertise with a people-first leadership approach - setting a high bar for analytical rigor, model quality, and stakeholder partnership, while creating an environment where Data Scientists can do their best work. A particular focus of this role is Optimization: you will lead efforts to apply optimization techniques across assortment, inventory, allocation, pricing, and supply chain problems, ensuring that DS solutions move the business from insight to action at scale. You are a trusted strategic partner to senior business and technology leaders, and you hold your team accountable for delivering with urgency, precision, and commercial impact.What You'll Do Business Leadership & Strategic Alignment Lead the team with strong domain knowledge - understanding business goals, challenges, and key metrics - and align DS projects with organizational strategies to meet stakeholder needs and deliver impactful solutions Establish a culture of rigorous measurement, leading the

- **Id**: 3721722
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gap-inc-director-data-science>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Folsom, United States, Dallas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T02:39:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6768
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Consumer Goods, Retail & Shop Systems, Apparel & Fashion Brands

## Company

- **Id**: 12256
- **Name**: Gap Inc
- **Domain**: gapinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gap>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 33
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.939
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T02:55:43Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 61 · green card filings: 19; Filings 12m: 61

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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