Grupo QuintoAndar | Head of Data & AI

About Grupo QuintoAndar

We are Grupo QuintoAndar, the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America. Guided by a shared purpose of helping people love where they live, we have a diversified portfolio of brands and solutions across different countries in Latin America, covering all phases of the housing journey. We also have a Technology Hub in Portugal. We develop technology and innovation to transform and enhance the overall living experience.

With the support of a world-class team of investors and advisors, including Kaszek, Qualcomm, General Atlantic, and SoftBank, Grupo QuintoAndar is currently valued at over USD 5.1 billion and continues to grow year over year.

Here, you will work with top professionals in the market, in an environment that breathes innovation, collaboration, and high performance. To learn more about our story, visit: https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/.

Location & Remote Work for technology and remote-first roles

Our technology team operates under a "remote-first" model, which means we work from home and can live anywhere in Brazil. We also offer the option of working from our São Paulo offices or partner coworking spaces, up to twice a week.

Hiring Process Stages

The stages of our hiring processes aim to assess your experiences and allow you to meet our teams and explore career opportunities. They are structured as follows:

• Application
• Interview with Recruiter
• Tech Screening
• Interviews with Data Team
• Leadership & Management
• Offer

About the Team

You will be the main responsible for Data&AI organization and strategy within a business unit. We expect you to:

• Engage with peer leaders (from Product Management, Design and Engineering) within your business context to align strategy and org structure;
• Deeply understand the business context and proactively identify opportunities to generate value with Data&AI;
• Guide teams to build Data Products and AI solutions to solve business challenges;
• Use prediction and prescriptive methods to support decision-making;
• Set a long-term strategy and plan for Data&AI in your Business Unit;
• Be a reference and build a great team by both recruiting great talent and helping them grow;
• Be an internal influencer towards a data and AI driven culture;

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Data&AI;
• Proven track record of leading medium to large teams and fostering career growth.
• Experience leading teams to business impact through Analytics and Data Science.
• Expertise in probability and statistics, including experimental design, bayesian modeling, optimization and causal inference for A/B experiments analysis.
• Strong knowledge of machine learning concepts: regression and classification, clustering, neural networks, feature selection, cross-validation, curse of dimensionality, bias-variance tradeoff, model explainability, etc.;
• Solid understanding of software and data engineering best practices, with awareness of the challenges in deploying machine learning models to production.
• Experience providing technical guidance to data professionals (data analysts, data scientists, etc);
• Excellent English skills (verbal and written) are mandatory.

You will stand out if you:

• Have experience in working at fast-growing startups.
• Have a MSc. (or Undergrad + intense experience) in  data science, machine learning, information retrieval, ranking systems, recommender systems, natural language processing or other relevant fields.
• Have experience with optimization problems.
• Have experience leading Data Engineering teams.+
• Have experience with Causal Inference.
• Have experience leading staff+ Individual Contributors (ICs).

Important

• Our hiring process starts with the application! If you truly want to be part of our team, please complete this step of the process. We analyze all candidates individually and provide feedback to all applicants.

• All communication will be conducted via email, so please stay tuned for our messages and release the domain @quintoandar.com.br to ensure our emails are not sent to spam.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Profit sharing
• Meal allowance 
• Health insurance
• Dental plan
• Life insurance
• Childcare subsidy and Atypical Parenthood subsidy
• Wellhub
• Home office allowance
• Employee assistance program (mental health, social, legal, and financial support)
• Extended parental leave
• Day off on birthday, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day
• Benefits Club (discounts on everyday services)
• Discounts at educational institutions
• Reading kit for children – PlayKids
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion at Grupo QuintoAndar

We value diversity and want everyone to feel welcome here, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic. All our job openings are open to all individuals!

You'll notice there are some diversity questions in the application form. For affirmative action roles, this information may be used to verify your alignment with the target audience for the opportunity. In such cases, it may be used for elimination purposes. For non-affirmative action roles, this data will be used anonymously, exclusively to monitor and improve our inclusion practices in the hiring process, and will have no impact on your application.

Privacy and Data Protection

The Grupo QuintoAndar operates in compliance with privacy and data protection laws, including, but not limited to, the Brazilian General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and ensures the security of your data. To learn more, please access our Privacy Notice for Candidates. For questions or to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us through our Service Channel.