Manager – Data Science

Our new global headquarters is conveniently located in Irvine, CA near John Wayne Airport in the Park Place development. For our onsite and hybrid employees you will be able to enjoy amenities such as access to many restaurants and shops, running trails, a fitness deck, outdoor seating, dry cleaning, car wash, free garage parking, car charging stations, shuttle service for train commuters, outdoor games like bocce, horseshoes, gaming tables, pickle ball, and basketball. For more information on Park Place visit www.parkplaceirvine.com

Who We Are:    

Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!

How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive! We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more.

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The Avionics Way:    

The Avionics Way captures the essence of what makes our employees special, and by extension, our organization. It’s comprised of 5 core identifiers - Pioneers, Problem Solvers, Accountable, Collaborative, and Customer Focused - that together form a robust, working framework for our continued success. Beyond a philosophy, the Avionics Way is our guide to daily practices. It provides a clear, actionable model to help employees, at all levels, realize their ambitions through outsized contributions to their teams and the company. This model clearly defines expectations for performance at all levels of the organization, as well as establishes specific actions and modes of working that reinforce our philosophy on the path to achieving our goals.

Organizational leader who transforms data into valuable business intelligence and insights, utilizing effective strategies and implementing analytics solutions. Responsible for developing and guiding an engaged team of business intelligence analyst and data scientists, who own end-to-end data collection to actionable insights. This leader collaboratively works with business leaders/stakeholders in Sales, Product Management, Business Unit, Finance, Engineering, and adjacent analytics groups to advance initiatives or projects. Plans and manages the activities of a team of data scientists, statisticians and data science programmers that produce models for use in operational systems and is a key leader in advancing the vision and capabilities for delivering data science models to support core business goals and growth opportunities.

What you will be doing:

Data Science and Advanced Analytics

• Ensure necessary data architecture and software tools are available, enabling actionable, insightful, and impactful reporting, dashboarding, statistical analyses, and the like.
• Understands and can facilitate development of reporting dashboards in a variety of platforms such as Tableau, Power BI and Quick Sights.
• Drive business analytics and capabilities; answering key business questions using innovative analytic and data science techniques.
• Designs, develops, and implements a broad array of business analytics that solve complex problems. Identifies new opportunities to further leverage analytics, data, and analytical tools such as AWS Athena, Glue, Kinesis, Sage Maker, or similar.
• Proactively manages static BI reporting, ad hoc analytics and advanced analytics requests, ensuring consistent quality and timeliness in delivery to business stakeholders.
• Drive education and evangelization of data sciences throughout the business.
• Monitor trends in key business KPIs, providing valuable insights to relevant departments for overall business performance improvement.
• Create visual stories and business cases from data that helps leadership make quick and effective decisions.
• Build out predictive modeling using R and Python that harnesses customer and competitive analysis data to spot emerging trends and areas of opportunity.
• Partner with business process experts and owners to build BI and leading indicators of operational benchmarks.
• Apply advanced knowledge of SQL and NO-SQL skills to process data.

Management

• Mentor, lead, and grow a team of data scientists, data analysts and data engineers who inform strategy, investment, and design and build solutions for Advanced Analytics, machine learning, AI, and journey analytics, orchestration, and personalization.
• Work with product management, product development, operations, customer support, and other internal stakeholders to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, and prioritize efforts.
• Manage the day-to-day insights that the business relies on, including both analyses to identify trends and evaluate marketing (channel, media, offer, product/package, events) performance, AND data mining to inform audience and individual-level insights and treatment.
• Partner closely with cloud services team to communicate analytical capabilities and identify leverage points to all levels of the organization within and outside the organization.
• Leads coordination efforts and activities to achieve improvements in processes, projects, and goals
• Leader is responsible for creating and implementing PAC analytics and data science strategic roadmap in alignment with company strategy.

The salary range of $112,000 - $188,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. The final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives.

Base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management or Analytics required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Prior supervisory, team lead, or project leader experience in data management, data analytics and/or Data Science.
• 5 years hands on experience building business intelligence and advanced analytics solutions.
• 5 years experience using R, Python or other advanced analytics languages.
• 2 years experience with machine learning and AI models using tools like sage maker, tensor flow or similar.
• 5 year of experience using AWS or Azure data science technologies like Athena, Glue. Quick Sights, Power BI, Data Factory, Kinesis, Sage maker, or similar
• 5 years equivalent experience in modeling, forecasting, data architecture (Analytics/Business Intelligence preferred).
• Certifications in Data Science or Machine Learning preferred.
• Ability to take ambiguous sets of data and decipher meaning to tell a story or business case that drives business decisions is required.
• Strong ability to communicate both written and verbally to internal and external clients is important.
• Strong ability to create and deliver effective presentations to multiple audiences is key
• Advanced expertise using data analytic software such as R, Python, SQL is essential
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft productivity tools: Excel, Word, and Visio and other software is necessary.
• Willingness and ability to work in a collaborative environment is important.

What we offer:

At Panasonic Avionics Corporation we realize the most important aspects in leading our industry are the bright minds behind everything we do. We are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive, comprehensive and flexible benefits program.

• Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive unlimited PTO. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non-exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year + 7 sick days + 3 personal days. Accrual rate increases with tenure. All employees receive 11 company paid holidays per year plus a paid company-wide shut down in the U.S. between Christmas and New Year.    
• Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI). Options for Employee Only, Employee + Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee + Children, or Family. Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.    
• 401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.
• Other offerings include: Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.    

Panasonic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law or company policy. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Pre-employment drug testing is required for safety sensitive positions or as may otherwise be required by contract or law. Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Avionics Corporation.

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