Staff Data Scientist / Technical Lead (Production ML)

About Appriss Retail

Appriss Retail is the total retail loss solution for omnichannel, unifying high-quality data across stores, online, and customer ser-vice to reduce returns, cut shrink, and manage incidents. Our products—Engage to reduce returns, Secure to cut shrink, and Incident to centralize visibility—help retailers move from reactive loss control to strategic profit protection. Together, they empower organizations to make better operations decisions, strengthen accountability, and put hundreds of millions back to the bottom line. Covering 40% of all U.S. transactions and active in 45 countries, Appriss Retail is trusted by 60+ of the top 100 U.S. retailers to deliver lasting performance improvement. Learn more at apprissretail.com.

Overview

We are looking for a player-coach who leads a small, high-output data science team while staying deeply hands-on. This role owns the full scope of data science at Appriss Retail — data engineering, governance, and production model delivery — not just model building. The right candidate has built and shipped realdataplatforms andAI/ML systems using a modern stack, has meaningful experience with LLMs and agentic architectures, and canoperatecredibly in both the technical weeds and the business conversation.

As a Staff Data Scientist / Technical Lead (Full-Stack / Production ML), you would set technical direction for the team and have the opportunity to grow into direct management over time. This is a full-stack role, not a…