Catherine Green

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Head of Data at Plume Ops | ex-Accenture

Plume Ops
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
UC San Diego
English
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Overview

Currently at Plume Ops, where I lead recommendation systems with a team of 55. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 6.3%. Before that: Accenture and Chewy. Most at home with PyTorch and embeddings. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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Skills
embeddingsPythonSparkPyTorch
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Hiring a founding data scientist for the recommendations team - Washington

Role
Founding data scientist
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$142k-$211k + equity
Team
Recommendations, 13 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $140k-$311k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Washington, DCsparkpytorchembeddings
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Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Plume Ops · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
    • Taught SQL to 77 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 106 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  2. Data Scientist
    Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
    Accenture · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Replaced 79 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Senior Data Scientist
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
    Chewy · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 8.5%.
  4. Analytics Manager
    Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
    Okta · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 105 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. Data Scientist
    Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
    Procter & Gamble · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Taught SQL to 135 non-analysts.
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 3.7%.

Projects

Recommendation systems benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing embeddings and Spark on real workloads.

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Education

  1. UC San Diego
    BS, Physics
    2007 - 2011

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