Head of Data Science jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-08-30, Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Head of Data Science” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is human-in-the-loop.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-08-30
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+How many Head of Data Science jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 3 job postings with the title “Head of Data Science” over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30.
+What skills do Head of Data Science jobs require?
Across Head of Data Science postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, the skills mentioned most often are human-in-the-loop, Agent Skills, autonomous agents, feature engineering, orchestration frameworks.
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Skillenai indexes 3 Head of Data Science postings over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30. The skill mentioned most often in Head of Data Science postings is human-in-the-loop, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Head of Data Science postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Head of Data Science
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| human-in-the-loop | 2 | 66.7% |
| Agent Skills | 2 | 66.7% |
| autonomous agents | 2 | 66.7% |
| feature engineering | 2 | 66.7% |
| orchestration frameworks | 2 | 66.7% |
| graph neural networks (GNNs) | 1 | 33.3% |
| face recognition | 1 | 33.3% |
| liveness detection | 1 | 33.3% |
| Python | 1 | 33.3% |
| vector databases | 1 | 33.3% |
| embedding-based retrieval | 1 | 33.3% |
| agentic architectures | 1 | 33.3% |
| vision-language models (VLMs) | 1 | 33.3% |
| survival analysis | 1 | 33.3% |
| multimodal AI | 1 | 33.3% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-08-30, matching postings whose canonical role is “Head of Data Science”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Head of Data Science
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-08-30
- window_days
- 90
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