Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Staff Data Scientist responsible for owning ambiguous, high-impact product and business problems; designing experiments; analyzing product data; developing analytical tools and frameworks; partnering with product, engineering, design, and leadership; and mentoring data scientists. The role requires advanced statistical expertise, strong product judgment, production programming experience, and the ability to translate complex analyses into strategic recommendations.

Conduct workforce analytics and applied organizational research on attrition, mobility, engagement, performance, and planning. Analyze and validate HR data using SQL, R, or Python; apply statistical testing and regression; translate business questions into actionable insights; and communicate findings through visualizations, reports, and presentations. Partner with HR stakeholders while maintaining the accuracy, documentation, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive workforce data.

Lead product analytics efforts by designing and evaluating experiments, building dashboards, and producing statistical insights. Partner with product, design, and engineering to measure product success, identify optimization opportunities, and embed ML-driven personalization into the product.

Build and productionize traditional machine learning models, owning feature engineering, validation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining. Develop LLM-powered agentic tools, dashboards, self-serve analytics products, and automated insight pipelines. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders, write production-grade Python and SQL, drive adoption, improve data quality, and establish responsible AI workflows for a regulated industry.

Leads analytical and scientific strategy for Fetch’s Play and Rewarded Apps businesses. Develops predictive and machine learning models, experimentation frameworks, causal analyses, feature pipelines, and measurement systems using Python and SQL. Partners with Product, Marketing, Engineering, and business leaders to improve monetization, engagement, retention, personalization, and marketplace outcomes. Translates complex findings into strategic recommendations, mentors data scientists and analysts, and establishes analytical best practices.

Design, deploy, and manage machine learning models supporting client acquisition, retention, and reactivation. Develop Next Best Action, CRM, paid media, and personalization solutions using LLMs and traditional ML. Design and interpret experiments, analyze large-scale datasets, communicate recommendations to stakeholders, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams on product and infrastructure roadmaps.

Develop and optimize machine learning and statistical models for fraud detection and anti-money laundering. Analyze large datasets to identify fraudulent patterns, build scalable data pipelines and features, evaluate model performance, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams. Communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders while maintaining data privacy and security compliance. The role offers significant ownership in building Oscilar’s early machine learning stack within a remote-first startup.

Build and deploy AI/ML solutions from prototype through production for CMS, including generative AI, LLMs, RAG, intelligent classification, knowledge management, agentic frameworks, and enterprise integrations. Evaluate AI coding tools, establish AI/ML roadmaps, scale adoption, mentor data scientists, and translate technical concepts for stakeholders and leadership.

Tune AML and fraud detection models using customers’ live transaction data. Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and false positives; validate changes through backtesting and sample review; document regulatory rationale; and present model performance and business value to compliance, risk, and data science stakeholders. Partner with customer teams on account strategy and relay customer-specific or systemic findings to product and model functions.

Develops and validates machine learning and statistical models for anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, customer screening, and risk rating. The role evaluates AML data quality, integrates vendor solutions, maintains governance and regulatory documentation, leads model lifecycle quality control, and reports performance through management dashboards. It also supports AML risk assessments, audits, regulatory examinations, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.

Own sales forecasting and revenue analytics by developing statistical and machine learning models across products, regions, and time horizons. Lead the full machine learning lifecycle from feature engineering through deployment, monitoring, and explainability. Translate forecasts into business recommendations, deliver production data products, mentor junior data scientists, and provide technical leadership across analytics and sales teams.

Own sales forecasting and revenue analytics using statistical and machine learning models. Lead the full machine learning lifecycle from feature engineering through deployment, monitoring, and explainability. Translate forecasts into recommendations for business leaders, contribute to self-service analytics, and ship data products with analytics engineers and analysts. Provide technical leadership through mentoring, design reviews, and roadmap development.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will analyze large-scale broadband data, develop and validate ML models, and integrate solutions into Calix Cloud, collaborating with teams for enhanced network intelligence and subscriber experience.

Leads end-to-end applied data science and AI workstreams for predictive underwriting and pricing, including problem framing, feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, and business-impact measurement. Builds explainable, governed, and reusable production models using healthcare and insurance data. Partners with underwriting, business, product, engineering, and legal teams; mentors others; and advances responsible AI, MLOps, model governance, and shared data science practices.

Lead data science engagements with customers to acquire, clean, analyze, and model data; develop scalable operational models and evaluation methods; coach engineers on best practices; drive solution strategy, ethics, and industry thought leadership; write extensible code and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-based AI solutions.

Lead end-to-end data science for customer-embedded, production solutions: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, run experiments, deploy operational models at scale, coach cross-disciplinary teams, and drive strategy, ethics, and privacy discussions.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze data to drive product strategy, optimize performance, and support product launches, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection models, perform detailed analyses, and work closely with teams to drive product innovation and business outcomes.

Lead the strategic direction and evolution of Netflix’s company-wide Experimentation Platform. Establish rigorous causal inference and experimentation standards, automate trust and validation practices, consolidate fragmented systems, shape platform product roadmaps, and collaborate with data science and engineering leaders. Translate experimentation needs into scalable tools, influence adoption across teams, mentor colleagues, and ensure reliable experiment allocation, measurement, analysis, and reporting.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Lead and deliver end-to-end data science projects: design, build, deploy, and monitor ML/statistical models for credit risk, pricing, collections, and fraud. Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production, set model development standards, mentor engineers, and maintain reliable ML pipelines and monitoring systems.

Analyze and characterize conversational audio data, identify underrepresented areas, and build active-learning and human-in-the-loop workflows. Develop representative benchmarks, automate model adaptation, and create reusable data analysis and scoring systems. Partner with research, engineering, and data teams to run experiments, improve models, organize data, and translate complex findings into measurable product improvements.

Design, develop, and deploy supervised machine learning models for credit decisioning. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to create data sources, improve modeling methodology, operationalize models, and manage model evaluation and risk for production systems.

Leads advanced data analysis to guide product and business decisions, develops metrics, dashboards, data products, and AI-enabled reporting systems, and translates findings into strategic recommendations. Partners with data engineers on dimensional data models, data governance, and quality controls. Mentors analysts, aligns roadmaps with business priorities, improves problem framing, and communicates insights effectively to technical and business stakeholders.

Lead G2’s experimentation practice across products and digital marketplaces. Design experimentation standards, causal inference methods, metrics, guardrails, and analysis approaches; partner with product and engineering to implement experimentation platforms and instrumentation. Build models, design auctions, ship production systems, evaluate modern statistical methods, and address marketplace interference and low-traffic constraints. Mentor data scientists and evangelize rigorous data science practices across the organization.