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Remote Data Science Director jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed teams in sectors from technology and fintech to healthcare and e-commerce. Employers hiring remotely right now include ZS Associates, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Honor. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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About AllTrails
AllTrails is the app for exploring the outdoors. We help people spend more time outside by connecting them to their next adventure. Home to the world’s largest outdoor community, with members and trails around the globe, you can find AllTrails in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and at alltrails.com. Every day, our team works to get more people outside and help our members have better experiences on the trail. We lead with our values—positivity, innovation, humility, adaptability, inclusivity, and stewardship—in everything we do. Join us! This is a U.S. based remote position. While this role does not require in-person attendance, we have a strong preference for candidates based in or near one of these cities: San Francisco CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Denver CO, and New York NY. Being in one of these cities creates opportunities to connect with teammates through Trail Days, co-working sessions, and local gatherings while still having the flexibility to work remotely. San Francisco employees are highly encouraged to come to the office one day per week.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Maps & Data, this role will lead the AllTrails’ Data Science & Engineering team, a small and centralized engineering function that cross-functionally supports the business across product pods and partner teams including: data analytics, finance, and marketing. The team’s scope spans scalable data infrastructure, data governance, reliability, compliance, and the development and productionization of machine learning, AI, and algorithmic solutions that power internal operations and member-facing product experiences.
Due to high candidate volume and to ensure our hiring team has sufficient time to give every application the attention it deserves, we have set a closing date of August 20th for this position.
What you'll be doing
Team Leadership & People Management
- Manage & Grow the Team: Lead, hire, and coach a team of data engineers and applied data scientists while fostering team health, professional development, and high performance through active coaching and performance management.
Strategic Business Partnership & AI Strategy
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical requirements, prioritize initiatives, and balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery goals.
- Domain & AI Innovation: Serve as a key thought partner on leveraging data, AI, and automation to enhance AllTrails' internal productivity, trail content, map quality, and member personalization experiences.
Data Platform & Engineering Execution
- Pipeline & ML Architecture: Drive the architecture and delivery of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, while scaling the productionization of ML models and algorithmic systems into dependable engineering solutions.
- System Operations & Reliability: Oversee orchestration, transformation, alerting, and data flow across the organization—troubleshooting complex performance bottlenecks and system failures to ensure high system uptime.
Data Governance, Democratization & Platform Operations
- Governance & Self-Service: Champion data reliability, quality, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency while building tools for data cataloging, documentation, and self-service to democratize data assets.
- Velocity & Continuous Improvement: Create organizational leverage by improving time-to-insight, debugging speed, and deployment velocity, while continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to elevate data capabilities.
What You Bring
Team & People Leadership
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years managing data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams with a focus on coaching senior ICs, career development, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture.
- Working Style & Values: An adaptable, self-motivated leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, humility, empathy, and a passion for the outdoors.
Technical Architecture & Infrastructure
- Platform & Governance: Hands-on experience managing GCP data infrastructure, enforcing data governance, and maintaining production-grade data access patterns, storage, caching, and optimization standards.
- Modern Data Stack: Extensive proficiency in transforming high-volume datasets in columnar SQL warehouses (BigQuery preferred, or Snowflake) using ELT tools (Dataform, dbt) and orchestrators like Apache Airflow.
- Pipeline & Processing: Proven expertise designing complex SQL/Python pipelines using parallelized processing frameworks (Dataflow, Spark, or similar) and core data modeling techniques (dimensional, star schema).
Engineering Practices & AI/ML Ops
- DevOps & SDLC: Deep familiarity with software engineering best practices, including Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), code reviews, and monthly on-call rotation.
- Applied AI/ML: Track record of guiding teams through the full ML lifecycle (MLOps) to support applied use cases like recommendation, ranking, personalization, and classification engines.
Stakeholder Management & Execution
- Cross-Functional Ownership: Skilled at leading across both platform foundations and applied data products, with the business judgment to prioritize competing stakeholder needs.
- End-to-End Delivery: Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs, collaborating effectively with stakeholders to own projects from inception to completion.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with geospatial data, maps, tiling, graph databases, and/or routing
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment (GCP + AWS)
- Experience working at a B2C company
- Skilled at managing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive and equitable compensation, including ownership through equity and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage to support your physical and mental well-being
- Unlimited PTO in addition to company holidays
- Dedicated time once a month to test and improve our product through company-wide no-meeting days
- Fully paid parental leave to birthing and non-birthing parents
- 401k Match & access to financial wellness resources through Origin
- Remote work stipend to help you design a comfortable and productive home office
- Annual learning stipend to invest in your long-term professional growth and skills
- Exclusive discounts on our subscriptions and merchandise for you and your friends & family
- An authentic investment in you as a human being and a professional—we value your identity as much as your output
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. AllTrails will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act. AllTrails participates in the E-Verify program for all remote locations.
By submitting my application, I acknowledge and agree to AllTrails' Job Applicant Privacy Notice. All official recruiting communications from AllTrails will come from an name@alltrails.com email address. Please review sender details carefully, and do not engage with anyone asking for payment or sensitive financial information as part of the hiring process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
This range represents our good faith estimate for a successful candidate’s starting base salary. Final offers are determined by a blend of factors including specialized skills, experience, and relevant credentials. In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes an equity stake in the company and a performance-based bonus program.
About AllTrails
AllTrails is the app for exploring the outdoors. We help people spend more time outside by connecting them to their next adventure. Home to the world’s largest outdoor community, with members and trails around the globe, you can find AllTrails in the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and at alltrails.com. Every day, our team works to get more people outside and help our members have better experiences on the trail. We lead with our values—positivity, innovation, humility, adaptability, inclusivity, and stewardship—in everything we do. Join us! This is a U.S. based remote position. While this role does not require in-person attendance, we have a strong preference for candidates based in or near one of these cities: San Francisco CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Denver CO, and New York NY. Being in one of these cities creates opportunities to connect with teammates through Trail Days, co-working sessions, and local gatherings while still having the flexibility to work remotely. San Francisco employees are highly encouraged to come to the office one day per week.
About The Role
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Maps & Data, this role will lead the AllTrails’ Data Science & Engineering team, a small and centralized engineering function that cross-functionally supports the business across product pods and partner teams including: data analytics, finance, and marketing. The team’s scope spans scalable data infrastructure, data governance, reliability, compliance, and the development and productionization of machine learning, AI, and algorithmic solutions that power internal operations and member-facing product experiences.
Due to high candidate volume and to ensure our hiring team has sufficient time to give every application the attention it deserves, we have set a closing date of August 20th for this position.
What you'll be doing
Team Leadership & People Management
- Manage & Grow the Team: Lead, hire, and coach a team of data engineers and applied data scientists while fostering team health, professional development, and high performance through active coaching and performance management.
Strategic Business Partnership & AI Strategy
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with cross-functional leaders to translate business needs into technical requirements, prioritize initiatives, and balance long-term platform investments with near-term delivery goals.
- Domain & AI Innovation: Serve as a key thought partner on leveraging data, AI, and automation to enhance AllTrails' internal productivity, trail content, map quality, and member personalization experiences.
Data Platform & Engineering Execution
- Pipeline & ML Architecture: Drive the architecture and delivery of scalable batch and streaming pipelines, while scaling the productionization of ML models and algorithmic systems into dependable engineering solutions.
- System Operations & Reliability: Oversee orchestration, transformation, alerting, and data flow across the organization—troubleshooting complex performance bottlenecks and system failures to ensure high system uptime.
Data Governance, Democratization & Platform Operations
- Governance & Self-Service: Champion data reliability, quality, privacy, compliance, and cost efficiency while building tools for data cataloging, documentation, and self-service to democratize data assets.
- Velocity & Continuous Improvement: Create organizational leverage by improving time-to-insight, debugging speed, and deployment velocity, while continuously evaluating new tools and technologies to elevate data capabilities.
What You Bring
Team & People Leadership
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years managing data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams with a focus on coaching senior ICs, career development, and building an inclusive, accountable team culture.
- Working Style & Values: An adaptable, self-motivated leader who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical guidance, humility, empathy, and a passion for the outdoors.
Technical Architecture & Infrastructure
- Platform & Governance: Hands-on experience managing GCP data infrastructure, enforcing data governance, and maintaining production-grade data access patterns, storage, caching, and optimization standards.
- Modern Data Stack: Extensive proficiency in transforming high-volume datasets in columnar SQL warehouses (BigQuery preferred, or Snowflake) using ELT tools (Dataform, dbt) and orchestrators like Apache Airflow.
- Pipeline & Processing: Proven expertise designing complex SQL/Python pipelines using parallelized processing frameworks (Dataflow, Spark, or similar) and core data modeling techniques (dimensional, star schema).
Engineering Practices & AI/ML Ops
- DevOps & SDLC: Deep familiarity with software engineering best practices, including Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.), code reviews, and monthly on-call rotation.
- Applied AI/ML: Track record of guiding teams through the full ML lifecycle (MLOps) to support applied use cases like recommendation, ranking, personalization, and classification engines.
Stakeholder Management & Execution
- Cross-Functional Ownership: Skilled at leading across both platform foundations and applied data products, with the business judgment to prioritize competing stakeholder needs.
- End-to-End Delivery: Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specs, collaborating effectively with stakeholders to own projects from inception to completion.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with geospatial data, maps, tiling, graph databases, and/or routing
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment (GCP + AWS)
- Experience working at a B2C company
- Skilled at managing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive and equitable compensation, including ownership through equity and performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage to support your physical and mental well-being
- Unlimited PTO in addition to company holidays
- Dedicated time once a month to test and improve our product through company-wide no-meeting days
- Fully paid parental leave to birthing and non-birthing parents
- 401k Match & access to financial wellness resources through Origin
- Remote work stipend to help you design a comfortable and productive home office
- Annual learning stipend to invest in your long-term professional growth and skills
- Exclusive discounts on our subscriptions and merchandise for you and your friends & family
- An authentic investment in you as a human being and a professional—we value your identity as much as your output
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. AllTrails will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act. AllTrails participates in the E-Verify program for all remote locations.
By submitting my application, I acknowledge and agree to AllTrails' Job Applicant Privacy Notice. All official recruiting communications from AllTrails will come from an name@alltrails.com email address. Please review sender details carefully, and do not engage with anyone asking for payment or sensitive financial information as part of the hiring process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
This range represents our good faith estimate for a successful candidate’s starting base salary. Final offers are determined by a blend of factors including specialized skills, experience, and relevant credentials. In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes an equity stake in the company and a performance-based bonus program.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Retail
- Insurance
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote data science director jobs.
- 7 to 10 years of experience in data science with at least 3 in a people management role
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn or PyTorch
- Experience building and deploying production-grade ML models in cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Bachelor's or master's degree in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or a related quantitative field
- Demonstrated ability to translate business problems into data science roadmaps and communicate findings to executives
- Familiarity with MLOps practices, model monitoring, and data pipeline tools such as Airflow or Databricks
Tips for Your Remote Data Science Director Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote data science director openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through mixed location listings.
Show async leadership in your portfolio
Remote employers need evidence you can lead without in-person context. Include writing samples, strategy memos, or documented frameworks that show how you've aligned distributed teams and communicated data roadmaps through written channels rather than meetings.
Target remote-first companies deliberately
Remote-first firms and distributed teams have built their data functions around location-independent leadership from the start. Prioritize these over companies that added remote as an option, because their processes, tooling, and culture are designed around the way you'll actually work.
Prepare for remote-specific interview questions
Remote data science director interviews consistently probe how you've managed distributed teams, resolved ambiguity without in-person cues, and kept stakeholders aligned across time zones. Prepare specific examples using tools like Slack, Notion, Confluence, or Looker in a fully async context.
Remote Data Science Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote data science director job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed teams that run data functions without a central office, because they're built for remote leadership from day one. Remote employers screen hard for self-direction, clear async written communication, and the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders without in-person context. Demonstrating that you've led distributed data teams, shipped measurable results independently, and communicated strategy through written documents gives you a concrete edge over candidates with only office-based experience.
Which companies hire remote data science directors?
Companies hiring remote data science directors right now include ZS Associates, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Honor, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first technology firms, distributed fintech platforms, and digital health organizations are among the most consistent sources of these openings, since their operating model depends on leaders who can run data functions across time zones.
Can you get a remote data science director job with no experience?
Yes, but remote data science director roles are harder to land without experience because remote employers need someone who can operate independently from day one without in-office oversight. Entry points include leading a data function at an early-stage remote startup, building a visible portfolio of end-to-end projects, and demonstrating written communication skills that replace the clarity normally built through in-person collaboration. Showing autonomous delivery of measurable outcomes opens the door more than credentials alone.
Do you need a degree for remote data science director jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring data science directors weigh demonstrated ability to lead teams, define data strategy, and deliver business impact more heavily than a specific credential. A strong portfolio of shipped projects, measurable outcomes, and evidence of cross-functional leadership can substitute for a formal degree at many remote-first companies, particularly in technology and product-led organizations where results are more visible than titles.
Which industries hire the most remote data science directors?
Remote data science director roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Retail, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams that process large volumes of data across geographies, making remote data science leadership a practical fit rather than an exception to their operating model.
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