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Lincoln Motor Company

Senior Data Scientist – Go-to-Market Advanced Analytics (Yield Management)

dearborn, MI

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Job description

Our Marketing, Sales & Service organization advances the Ford reputation as a visionary vehicle and mobility services company and helps deliver a trusted customer experience. Use your marketing, sales and service expertise to turn data-driven insights into innovative solutions that enhance sales and customer loyalty. Join us and be the eyes, ears and voice of Ford.

In this position...

This role sits within the Yield Management Advanced Analytics team, focused on developing and maintaining sophisticated modeling and optimization capabilities that drive pricing and incentive strategy across the business. As part of the broader Yield Management organization, this team partners closely with sibling analytics products, data engineering, AI/ML engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver quantitative solutions that shape how the company prices vehicles, structures incentives, and manages portfolio risk.

Critical Questions This Role Will Help Answer Include

Assessing portfolio risk and opportunity at the portfolio or nameplate level

Assessing business impacts of different incentive tactics to support incentive planning

Optimizing nameplate profitability or minimizing risk by adjusting entity-level pricing based on production, market demand, and operational constraints

Supporting new model year launches, mid-year repricing, and short-term variable marketing adjustments

What You’ll Do...

Model Enhancement, Expansion & Maintenance

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of complex predictive models and optimization frameworks, driving scheduled updates, continuous improvement, and maintenance using advanced statistical and machine learning methodologies

Serve as subject matter expert for our analytical products, ensuring the accuracy of underlying data, calculation logic, and business assumptions

Drive the transition of analytical frameworks into production-ready assets, focusing on deployment automation, operational stability, and delivering clean, modular, well-documented code

Explore opportunities to apply emerging techniques, such as agentic AI or LLM-based tools, to improve modeling workflows or analytical delivery

Business Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand evolving needs and convert ambiguous business problems into well-defined analytical problems

Communicate quantitative concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical peers and business partners, ensuring analytical work translates into real business impact

Execute rapid-response, ad-hoc analytical requests to support time-sensitive strategic decision-making

Partner closely with data engineering, AI/ML engineering, and other analytics product teams within Yield Management to align data science capabilities with evolving business needs

You’ll have...

Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics/Econometrics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field

3+ years of experience in data analytics, AI/ML modeling, or related quantitative analysis

Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, R, MATLAB, C/C++/C#, SAS), along with familiarity in ML/DL libraries and SQL

Even better, you may have...

Ph.D. in Data Science, Statistics, Economics/Econometrics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field

Demonstrated skills applying econometrics, statistics, and/or machine/deep learning techniques to large, structured and unstructured data sets

Strong problem formulation and analytical rigor, with the ability to interpret and communicate model results

Experience with web app frameworks (e.g., Dash, Flask, Streamlit), version control (Git), and cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP)

Curiosity or experience exploring agentic AI and LLM-based tools, with interest in applying them creatively to analytical workflows

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more

Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

Tuition assistance

Established and active employee resource groups

Paid time off for individual and team community service

A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 5-8, and ranges from $68,300-$192,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call .

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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dearborn, MI, 48120, US

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