Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd

Sr Manager Data Science and AI Platform Enablement

Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd • $130K — $155K *
Katy, TX 77449In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Sciences
  • Master's degree in Analytics or Data Science preferred
  • 8+ years in data science or advanced analytics; retail or B2C experience preferred
  • 4+ years of leading teams or technical initiatives with people management experience
  • 3+ years in B2C, retail, e-commerce, or customer-facing analytics
  • Experience in production-grade analytics or ML solutions

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve reusable data and modeling standards for analytics/ML solutions
  • Partner with data engineering to influence customer data models and datasets
  • Translate marketing and customer needs into scalable technical patterns
  • Enable data scientists and analysts to adopt standards and accelerate delivery
  • Represent customer data needs in governance forums and evolve practical standards
  • Lead Adobe Analytics data capture for effective analytics use
  • Define and govern customer data flows with IT, ensuring secure integrations

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment that supports innovation and growth
  • Opportunities for ongoing professional development and training
  • Flexible work hours to balance personal and professional commitments
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for analytics
  • Health and wellness programs to promote employee well-being
Full Job Description
Education:
  • Bachelor's in engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Sciences
  • Master's degree in Analytics or data science (preferred)


Work Experiences:
  • 8+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, applied machine learning, or related fields. Experience in retail or B2C is preferred
  • 4+ years of experience leading teams or major technical initiatives, including people management or matrixed leadership
  • 3+ years of experience in B2C, retail, e-commerce, marketing analytics, or customer-facing analytics domains
  • 3+ years of experience building, deploying, or enabling production-grade analytics or ML solutions


Skills:
  • Strong engineering mindset with experience in: Modular code, Reproducibility & Production-grade analytics or ML systems
  • Experience working with digital analytics, customer data platforms, or experimentation data (e.g., Adobe, web/app analytics, or similar ecosystems)
  • Proven ability to influence across matrixed organizations without direct ownership
  • Experience partnering with data engineering, platform, and governance teams
  • Ability to balance speed to value with long-term scalability
  • Experience enabling MLOps or analytics platforms, preferred
  • Exposure to customer analytics, personalization, marketing, or e-commerce use cases, preferred
  • Experience operating in early-to-mid maturity data organizations, preferred
  • Comfort shaping standards without formal authority, preferred


Responsibilities:

Platform & AI Standards Enablement
  • Define and evolve reusable data, feature, and modeling patterns, MLOps and model lifecycle standards, and production-ready analytics/ML solutions.
  • Partner with CIO Data Engineering and Platform teams to influence canonical customer data models, shared datasets, feature reuse, and data access/consumption standards.


Customer Domain Translation & Enablement
  • Translate customer, marketing, and omnichannel needs into scalable technical and platform-aligned patterns.
  • Enable domain-aligned data scientists, analysts, and engineers to adopt standards, reduce reinvention, and accelerate delivery.
  • Influence enterprise priorities through evidence, design proposals, and proof-of-value work.


Governance, Quality & Responsible AI
  • Represent customer-domain data needs in governance forums.
  • Help evolve governance standards that are practical for personalization, experimentation, and customer analytics.
  • Ensure quality, fairness, trust, and compliance are embedded by design.


Customer Data Domain Enablement
  • Lead Adobe Analytics and Quantum Metrics data capture, acting as a catalyst for effective use across analytics, personalization, and experimentation.
  • Serve as the data domain owner for all customer-facing data domains, including tag management, Bridg, and clean room capabilities, accountable for data definitions, quality, access, and downstream usability.
  • Partner with IT pods, platform, and engineering teams to define and govern customer data flows securely and at scale through well-documented integrations.


Leadership Attributes
  • Systems thinker with a pragmatic bias toward delivery.
  • Trusted by both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable letting teams execute independently while influencing across a matrixed organization.
  • Optimizes for scale and reuse, not personal ownership.


Physical Requirements & Attendance:
  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures, and rules governing professional staff behavior
  • Regular attendance in the office is required

About Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a premier sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer with a broad assortment of quality hunting, fishing, and camping equipment and gear along with sports and leisure products, footwear, apparel and much more. The Texas-based company operates over 250 stores throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, where the company is headquartered. Academy employs more than 29,000 team members and is committed to providing exceptional customer service, offering an unparalleled assortment of top brands, and promoting active lifestyles through its community involvement.
Learn more about Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd
Size
29,000 employees
Market Cap
$4 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Founded
1938
5 Year Trend
+7.4%
Revenue
$5.4 billion
NASDAQ
ASO
* Ladders Estimates

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