Zachary Garrett

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Chief Data Officer at Sable Finance | ex-TD Bank

Sable Finance
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Rotman School of Management
English, Hindi
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Overview

I've spent 22 years on recommendation systems - first at Telus, now at Sable Finance. Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker. Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 4.8%. Before that: TD Bank and RBC. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Skills
PyTorchembeddingsPythonrecommender systemsSparkranking
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Hiring a senior data analyst for the recommendations team - Toronto or remote

Role
Senior data analyst
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$179k-$230k + equity
Team
Recommendations, 16 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp C$130k-C$209k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ON · remote OKembeddingssparkpython
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Experience

  1. Chief Data Officer
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Sable Finance · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
    • Taught SQL to 173 non-analysts.
  2. Staff Data Scientist
    Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
    TD Bank · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Taught SQL to 89 non-analysts.
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 9 product decisions a quarter.
  3. Data Analyst
    Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
    RBC · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Replaced 89 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Director of Data Science
    May 2016 - Nov 2017
    Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Taught SQL to 99 non-analysts.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  5. Analytics Manager
    Jul 2014 - May 2016
    Telus · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. University of Toronto
    BASc, Computer Science
    1999 - 2003

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