Senior Data Scientist at 8451 | Cincinnati, OH & Chicago, IL

Join 8451 as a Senior Data Scientist, where your expertise in data analytics will drive impactful decision-making across various projects. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement advanced statistical models and machine learning solutions that help us meet our business objectives.

Join 8451 as a Senior Data Scientist, where you will leverage your expertise in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling to drive actionable insights and enhance decision-making processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop data-driven solutions that support our strategic objectives and improve our product offerings.

Role Overview 8451 is hiring a Senior Data Scientist in Cincinnati, OH or Chicago, IL. This role focuses on using data analysis and machine learning to support business decisions. The Senior Data Scientist works closely with teams across the company to build predictive models and improve business strategies. What You Will Do Analyze complex datasets to uncover trends and insights Develop and refine predictive models to support key business goals Collaborate with colleagues from different departments to solve problems and share findings Help optimize company performance through data-driven recommendations Locations Cincinnati, OH Chicago, IL

Join 84.51° as a Senior Data Engineer!At 84.51°, we are at the forefront of retail data science, insights, and media. Our mission is to empower The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods entities, agencies, publishers, and affiliates to offer personalized and enriching experiences for shoppers throughout their purchasing journey.Harnessing the power of sophisticated science, we leverage first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households, gathered through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program. This enables us to create a more customer-centric experience via 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing, and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.To foster collaboration and team synergy, we maintain a 5-day in-office work schedule.We invite you to be a part of our innovative team at 84.51°!

84.51° Overview:84.51° is at the forefront of retail data science, insights, and media, empowering The Kroger Co. and its partners to deliver personalized and impactful shopping experiences. By leveraging first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households, we drive a customer-centric journey through innovative solutions like 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing, and our retail media platform, Kroger Precision Marketing.At 84.51°, we believe in fostering collaboration and teamwork through a 5-day in-office work schedule.Join our mission at 84.51°!__________________________________________________________Lead Data Engineer (P1952)Cincinnati, OH or Chicago, ILAs a leading data science company and a proud subsidiary of The Kroger Company, we manage a vast data ecosystem, comprising 10 petabytes of data and generating over 35 terabytes of new data weekly from our 62 million household dataset. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing applications that transform our data into actionable insights, enhancing the customer experience at Kroger. We adopt Agile methodologies and Big Room Planning to ensure alignment among cross-functional teams—Product, Architecture, Data Science, and Engineering—focused on creating scalable enterprise applications.SUMMARY:In your role as Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing solutions that enable the ingestion, storage, transformation, and distribution of big data on Azure Cloud. Our technology stack includes Databricks (Spark, SQL, PySpark), Databricks Workflows, Python, JSON, and SQL, allowing you to build products and features that facilitate customer personalization on a large scale. Strong communication and collaboration skills with Product and Data Science teams are essential for success in this position.RESPONSIBILITIES: Take ownership of features and drive them to completion through all phases of the 84.51° Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This encompasses both external-facing and internal applications, as well as process improvement initiatives, such as:Developing understanding of business domains and bridging this knowledge to technical stakeholders.Establishing technical strategies in partnership with Data Science, Product, Architecture, and Kroger partners.

84.51° Overview:At 84.51°, we are at the forefront of retail data science, insights, and media. We collaborate with The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods organizations, agencies, publishers, and affiliates to deliver personalized and valuable shopping experiences throughout the purchasing journey.Leveraging advanced science, we utilize first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to enhance customer-centric journeys with 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing, and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.We embrace a 5-day in-office work schedule to foster collaboration, alignment, and team connectivity.Join us in making a difference at 84.51°!__________________________________________________________Senior ML Data Engineer, Relevancy Sciences – Personalization & Loyalty Strategy (P508)The Relevancy Sciences Team is dedicated to crafting relevant and personalized customer experiences for Kroger's E-commerce platform, recognized as one of the top 10 e-commerce companies in the U.S. We generate trillions of recommendations daily and deliver them to millions of Kroger customers. Our team manages an extensive portfolio of machine learning solutions for search and product recommendations. We are on the lookout for a skilled and experienced Senior ML Data Engineer to join our data science team, specializing in developing search and recommender systems.Role OverviewIn this role, you will design, build, and maintain the crucial data infrastructure that powers our machine learning models, encompassing everything from feature engineering to training data generation. You will act as a liaison between ML requirements and production data systems, overseeing feature stores, training/evaluation pipelines, and ML-specific data operations. Your efforts will empower data scientists to iterate swiftly while ensuring production-grade reliability and scalability.What You'll DoFeature Store Operations & Governance (40%)Manage the lifecycle of feature requests from intake to deployment, promoting reusability and maintaining a searchable feature catalog.Design and develop scalable feature pipelines that compute features from various sources (BigQuery, Azure Data Lake) and integrate them into the Feature Store infrastructure (Vertex AI Feature Store + BigQuery).Create streaming feature engineering pipelines utilizing Apache Beam/Dataflow for real-time feature computation and low-latency model serving.

About 84.51°:At 84.51°, we are pioneers in retail data science, insights, and media solutions. Our mission is to empower The Kroger Co., alongside consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, and publishers, to enhance shopper experiences throughout their purchasing journey.Leveraging advanced scientific methodologies, we utilize first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households, obtained through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program. This enables us to facilitate a more customer-focused experience via our suite of offerings, including 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing, and Kroger Precision Marketing.We embrace a collaborative work environment with a 5-day in-office schedule to foster teamwork and alignment.Join us at 84.51°!__________________________________________________________Position: Senior Data Scientist (P3358)OverviewWe are on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to become a vital member of our Proprietary Models team. This role involves the development, evaluation, and democratization of our foundational models portfolio, which includes embeddings, pre-trained LLMs, and fine-tuned language models. You will be responsible for building and optimizing embedding pipelines, establishing rigorous evaluation frameworks, transitioning models from experimentation to production, and assisting business stakeholders in their integration processes. The ideal candidate will possess a robust technical background in machine learning and AI, exceptional problem-solving skills, a dedication to engineering excellence, and a fervor for empowering others to effectively harness AI.Key ResponsibilitiesYour contributions will span various domains, including engineering data pipelines, testing innovative AI methodologies, and guiding business stakeholders. You will need to adapt across these skill areas as projects evolve, collaborating with your team to achieve success.Develop and optimize embedding pipelines for vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and downstream ML applications.Conduct thorough model testing, evaluation, and validation against quality metrics, performance benchmarks, and reliability standards before deployment.Design and implement proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility for specific business challenges.Establish and maintain automated testing frameworks for model performance, data quality, and pipeline integrity.Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers, Researchers, and Engineers to develop, fine-tune, and deploy foundational models.

Join 84.51° as a Lead API Platform Engineer!At 84.51°, we are a pioneering retail data science and insights company dedicated to enhancing the shopping experience for consumers through advanced data solutions. As a subsidiary of The Kroger Co., we empower retailers and consumer goods firms to deliver personalized shopping experiences by leveraging data from over 62 million U.S. households.We employ innovative data science to drive insights that inform decision-making and improve customer interactions at every stage of their shopping journey.Our team embraces a 5-day in-office work schedule to foster collaboration, alignment, and strong team connections.As a Lead API Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in our Application Delivery team, overseeing the API gateway experience from pre-production to production. Your technical leadership will help shape our API strategy, mentor fellow engineers, and enhance our operational excellence.

8451 seeks a Senior Data Scientist Consultant to support the Managed Agent Platform. This role is open in Cincinnati, OH or Chicago, IL. Key responsibilities Analyze large, complex data sets in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Build predictive models that advance the Managed Agent Platform. Translate analytical findings into insights to guide strategic decisions. Help improve existing solutions and contribute to new developments for the platform. Requirements Significant experience in data science, including both model development and data analysis. Strong communication skills for effective teamwork and knowledge sharing. Proven ability to convert complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.

Join 8451 as a Director of Data Science, where you will lead innovative data-driven strategies to enhance our business intelligence and analytics capabilities. You will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of advanced data models and algorithms, driving actionable insights that inform critical business decisions.

84.51° Overview:At 84.51°, we are pioneers in retail data science, insights, and media, dedicated to transforming the shopping experience. We partner with The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods firms, agencies, publishers, and affiliates to craft personalized and meaningful shopping journeys.Leveraging advanced analytics, we harness first-party retail data from over 62 million U.S. households via the Kroger Plus loyalty program to enhance customer experiences through our offerings, including 84.51° Insights, Loyalty Marketing, and Kroger Precision Marketing.We embrace a 5-day in-office work schedule to foster collaboration and team synergy.Join us at 84.51°!__________________________________________________________Senior Data Scientist Consultant, SPI – Agent Platform TeamSummaryThe Agent Platform Team, part of AI Enablement at 84.51°, oversees the essential platforms driving data science and AI initiatives across the organization. This position is within the SPI (Science Platform Innovation) squad and focuses on the Databricks environment and its advancing AI/ML functionalities.You will act as a liaison between the engineers developing our Databricks platform and the data scientists utilizing it daily. Your role is not to build models for end clients but to ensure the platform functions optimally—facilitating the smooth implementation of new features, documenting processes, and relaying user feedback to the platform team to guide future enhancements.Gain in-depth knowledge of Databricks’ infrastructure and its AI-powered features, including Genie Code, Genie Spaces, Agent Bricks, MLflow, and more, along with the Unity Catalog governance framework. You will assess new Databricks capabilities and relevant third-party integrations from an end-user perspective, document your insights, and assist the team in determining which features to adopt and how to implement them efficiently.This small, collaborative squad thrives on teamwork, with everyone contributing across various tasks. Flexibility and adaptability are key, as priorities may shift in alignment with the evolving Databricks roadmap. Success in this role hinges on your ability to navigate ambiguity, exercise sound judgment in prioritizing tasks, and influence outcomes without direct authority.

84.51° applies advanced data science to retail, supporting The Kroger Co. and partners with insights, loyalty marketing, and retail media products. The company draws on first-party data from over 62 million U.S. households through the Kroger Plus program, aiming to create more personalized shopper experiences. This position requires working in the office five days a week to foster collaboration and team connection. Role overview The Lead Data Scientist, Relevancy Sciences, joins a team focused on building and refining the science behind search and recommendation systems for Kroger’s e-commerce platforms. The team’s work shapes digital experiences for millions of customers, aiming for relevant, personalized, and scalable interactions across Kroger’s digital channels. What you will do Technical leadership and influence: Lead projects in search and recommendation systems, shaping scientific strategy to improve content discovery, relevance, personalization, and decision support. Identify impactful opportunities, clarify technical trade-offs, and guide the team toward practical, scalable solutions. Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas to demonstrate measurable value. Develop innovative search and recommender systems: Design and implement machine learning solutions for the grocery retail sector. Drive systems that enhance product discovery and personalization throughout the customer journey. Provide leadership in next-generation personalization, including Generative AI and agent-based approaches. Location This position is based in Cincinnati, OH or Chicago, IL.

Join 8451 as a Senior Agile Delivery Specialist, where you will play a pivotal role in driving agile methodologies across our diverse teams. Your expertise will help streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and deliver exceptional results in a fast-paced environment.

Join 8451 as a Lead Product Manager specializing in Insights & Reporting Data Direct, where you will drive innovative product strategies and lead cross-functional teams to deliver impactful data insights. You will be responsible for overseeing product lifecycles, collaborating with stakeholders, and enhancing data-driven decision-making processes.

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Business Acceleration Consultant at 8451, where you will play a pivotal role in driving business growth and innovation. In this position, you will leverage your expertise to analyze market trends, develop strategic initiatives, and provide actionable insights to enhance operational efficiency. We are looking for a professional who is passionate about transforming data into business solutions and who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

We are seeking a dynamic and analytical Senior Pricing and Promotion Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in pricing strategies and promotional campaigns to drive business growth and enhance profitability. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to analyze market trends, develop pricing models, and create impactful promotional strategies that resonate with our customers.

Join our innovative team at 8451 as a Senior Consumer Researcher, where you'll lead impactful research initiatives that drive strategic decision-making. In this role, you will leverage advanced research methodologies to gather insights on consumer behavior, preferences, and trends. Your analytical expertise will be key in translating complex data into actionable recommendations for our stakeholders.As a Senior Consumer Researcher, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, utilizing your strong communication skills to present findings effectively. You'll have the opportunity to shape research agendas and influence product development, marketing strategies, and customer engagement.

Join 8451 as a Senior Business Acceleration Consultant specializing in Merchandising. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business growth through innovative merchandising strategies. Your expertise will be instrumental in optimizing product placement, enhancing customer experiences, and maximizing profitability.

Join 8451 as a Senior Business Acceleration Consultant specializing in Merchandising RISE. In this dynamic role, you will drive innovative strategies to enhance business performance and customer engagement through data-driven insights and market analysis. Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to implement best practices and optimize merchandising processes, ultimately contributing to the growth and success of our clients.

Join 8451 as a Senior Agile Delivery Specialist, where you will play a vital role in leading projects focused on AI proprietary models and our AI Hub. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of innovative AI solutions that drive business value.Your expertise in Agile methodologies and AI technologies will be crucial in managing project timelines, stakeholder communications, and ensuring the highest quality of deliverables. We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented professional who thrives in a dynamic environment.