Sr Principal Data Scientist

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is looking for a Sr. Principal Data Scientist to set the technical direction for the ML models and AI sub-agents that drive growth, monetization, efficiency, and retention across the customer lifecycle. You’ll architect the systems, define the modeling and evaluation standards, and shape the roadmap for how Smartsheet uses applied ML and agentic AI to serve millions of customers. The data is unusually rich: petabyte-scale execution data spanning two decades of how real work gets done. You are a recognized technical leader who moves fluidly between architecture, prototype, and production; raises the bar for the data scientists around you; and partners with senior product and engineering leaders to make decisions that compound across the org. You will work primarily with Product and Engineering and will be a part of Smartsheet’s Business Intelligence team. This full-time position reports to the Director of Data Science and is based in Smartsheet’s Bengaluru, India office. You Will: Set the technical direction for how Smartsheet uses applied ML and agentic AI across the customer lifecycle — what gets built, what doesn’t, and what good looks like Architect the systems behind the sub-agents: how they ground themselves in evidence, how risk and confidence are calibrated, how decisions are evaluated, and how all of it stays safe and trustworthy at scale Define the modeling, evaluation, and experimentation standards