In the US it's more common for data scientist to be similar to a product analyst or a data analyst perhaps with better technical skills. In the UK data scientist is more likely to be someone who is doing applied ML work (other titles for this are ML engineer or applied data scientist).
Obviously it's not a perfectly clean separation but it's a trend, and people sometimes end up really talking past each other. You can see on r/datascience which is very US-heavy how people often recommend to beginners not to bother with advanced ML, stick to SQL, basic Python and analytics, and in the UK data science job market that's outright bad advice (it's fine advice for the UK analytics market which is a separate thing).
Obviously it's not a perfectly clean separation but it's a trend, and people sometimes end up really talking past each other. You can see on r/datascience which is very US-heavy how people often recommend to beginners not to bother with advanced ML, stick to SQL, basic Python and analytics, and in the UK data science job market that's outright bad advice (it's fine advice for the UK analytics market which is a separate thing).