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They are also responsible for curating a community of practice to determine the best standards and practices around data science at General Mills.\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nLead the design and delivery of scalable data science solutions that solve high-value business problems across Core ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.\n\nPartner with business stakeholders to frame problems, translate needs into measurable outcomes, and communicate insights and recommendations clearly.\n\nDevelop and evaluate ML models across regression, classification, forecasting, optimization, NLP, and deep learning, apply robust experimentation, evaluation, and error-analysis practices.\n\nDesign and implement Agentic AI, LLM, NLP, and RAG solutions, including data curation, ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval optimization, fine-tuning, and human-in-the-loop evaluation.\n\nDefine and maintain business semantics, including ontologies, taxonomies, and metadata, to enable consistent retrieval 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