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We connect your work to real impact, invest in your growth, and welcome you to feel at home - because care isn't just something we say, it's something you experience.\nInvitation Homes owns and operates homes in great neighborhoods across 16 top U.S. markets. We continue to innovate with smart home technology, an industry-leading maintenance app, and other lifestyle-enhancing services that make leasing easier than owning.\nOur market teams - Leasing, Property Management, and Rehab, Turns & Maintenance - work together to deliver excellent resident experiences and maintain high-quality homes. Every associate plays a meaningful role in that mission.\nInvitation Homes does not offer employment-based visa sponsorship for this role at this time.\nWhat you’ll do day-to-day\nThe Vice President, Data Science will lead Invitation Homes’ data science function-owning the strategy, technical direction, and hands-on development of the quantitative models and machine learning systems that drive decision-making across marketing, resident acquisition and retention, customer experience, pricing, and portfolio performance. This is a hands-on leadership role split roughly evenly across three areas: partnering with senior leaders on strategy and roadmap, coaching and developing the team, and personally building and validating models. You will set the vision and standards for the team while staying close enough to the technical work to frame problems, build models, and shepherd them into production.\nYou will partner closely with senior marketing, operations, and technology leaders to identify high-value opportunities, shape the analytics roadmap, and deliver scalable, reliable solutions that improve the speed, consistency, and quality of business decisions. You will lead a small, high-performing team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, dividing your time between coaching and developing talent and personally contributing to the most complex, highest-impact work.\nThe ideal candidate is a proven technical leader who combines deep data science and machine learning expertise with strong business judgment and communication skills-someone who can translate ambiguous business problems into data-driven decision systems, mentor a growing team, and turn technical excellence into measurable business value.\nData Science Strategy & Business Partnership\nDefine and own the strategy and roadmap for Invitation Homes’ data science and machine learning capabilities, aligning technical priorities with the company’s most valuable business opportunities.\nPartner with marketing, operations, revenue management, and technology leadership to identify, prioritize, and deliver analytical solutions with the greatest business impact-focused on resident acquisition, engagement, retention, and loyalty; customer experience; pricing; and long-term value.\nTranslate complex business challenges into clear roadmaps, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes, and curate a backlog that sets expectations on the timing of deliverables.\nRepresent data science in planning, prioritization, and investment discussions, and communicate findings and recommendations clearly to senior business stakeholders with supporting visualizations.\nTechnical & Analytical Leadership\nDedicate roughly a third of your time to personal technical contribution-model development, experimentation, and validation-on the highest-impact work.\nSet technical standards and direction across modeling, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and governance for the team.\nProvide leadership in advanced analytical methods including predictive modeling, forecasting, optimization, segmentation, and machine learning.\nPersistently assess the status quo, looking for opportunities to simplify, optimize, and improve existing analytical constructs and solutions.\nEvaluate and responsibly adopt emerging capabilities, including generative AI, where they create measurable business value.\nProduction Machine Learning & Decision Systems\nOwn the full analytical and machine learning lifecycle-from framing business problems and developing models through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.\nEnsure analytical and machine learning systems are designed as reliable, reproducible, and auditable end-to-end decision systems.\nGuide development of production-grade solutions on modern cloud-based data platforms.\nInstitutionalize the processes of aggregating, organizing, and preparing data for analysis, and create stable refresh processes that keep findings and insights fresh.\nAdvance modern engineering practices including version control, CI/CD, automation, and reusable delivery patterns.\nTeam Leadership & Talent\nLead, mentor, and grow a small, high-performing team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, dedicating roughly a third of your time to coaching and developing talent.\nAttract, assess, hire, and retain exceptional technical talent, and develop team members through coaching and structured development.\nEstablish a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nHelp upskill data and analytics expertise across the team and among business partners.\nQuality, Governance & Continuous Improvement\nEstablish high standards for reproducibility, data quality, code quality, validation, and production support.\nEnsure analytical decisions are correct, explainable, and defensible before deployment.\nContinuously improve the team’s operating model and delivery practices.\nWork closely with the business intelligence team to create on-brand visualizations and management tools that improve performance related to customer acquisition and experience.\nWhat You Bring\nEducation and/or Experience\nBA/BS degree with emphasis on a quantitative discipline (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research) required; advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative or applied science strongly preferred.\n10+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied analytics, including substantial hands-on ownership of model development and production machine learning systems.\n5+ years of experience leading and developing data science or machine learning talent, with a demonstrated ability to build and mentor high-performing teams while remaining hands-on.\nDemonstrated experience building, deploying, and operating machine learning or optimization systems in production, with accountability across the full lifecycle from design through deployment, monitoring, and retraining.\nDemonstrated success applying predictive, prescriptive, forecasting, optimization, and segmentation methods to complex business problems.\nTechnical Skills\nStrong hands-on proficiency in SQL and Python (experience with R or other languages a plus).\nExperience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, or Databricks).\nExpertise in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau; Datorama a plus).\nExperience accessing various APIs and scripting refresh/update and ETL/ELT processes.\nExperience analyzing and assessing marketing channel performance-including digital ads, Google Ads, Facebook, and web analytics-a plus.\nOther Requirements\nDemonstrated success using performance-based / ROI analysis to drive decisions and recommendations for resident and business strategy.\nExcellent verbal and written communication, with a proven ability to explain analytical concepts and results to senior business leaders.\nDemonstrated experience analyzing customer behavior and creating customer segmentation.\nStrong business judgment and the ability to shape strategy and lead cross-functional prioritization.\nAbility to be at work on a regular and consistent basis.\nWhy Invitation Homes\nWe believe when our residents thrive, our associates thrive. Here, you're not just filling a role - you're building a career at a company that invests in your growth and welcomes you for who you are.\nWhat's in it for you\nCompetitive pay and annual bonus program for all associates\nGenerous PTO including vacation accrual, sick time, volunteer time, and standard and floating holidays\n401(k) with company matching contributions\nCasual dress code and a genuinely great work environment\nTeam events, celebrations, and a culture that values connection\nEmployee Resource Groups: Together with Women, Asian Alliance, Black Collective, Juntos, Gen Next, and Open Invitation\nCareer growth paths and learning opportunities - we promote from within\nSalary Range\nThe salary range for this position is: $177,825.00 - $308,230.00, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws. Compensation and Benefits\nTo attract and retain top talent, we're pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits, including:\nAnnual bonus program\n\nHealth, dental, vision, and life insurance\n\nLong-term and short-term disability insurance\n\nGenerous paid time off plans include vacation accrual, sick time, standard holidays and floating holidays\n\n401(k) with company matching contributions\n\nAwesome work environment with casual dress\n\nTeam events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)\n\nInvitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at .\nTo all recruitment agencies: Invitation Homes does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Invitation Homes employees. 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