PLEASE - NO RECENT GRADS, CONSULTANTS OR NON-USA BASED CANDIDATES!!

ALL Candidate Submittals MUST meet all of the skills and experience requirements.   

This is a full-time role located in San Francisco, CA, or Brooklyn, NY.

The total compensation for this is up to $1,000,000 and $300,000+ base.

Job Description

This global e-commerce enterprise is looking for an Engineering Director to lead its organization in building the next-generation machine learning infrastructure, platform, and systems (MIPS).

MIPS is a growing team responsible for building and operating all of the systems that power machine learning. It is part of this client's central data organization and the role reports to the Chief Data Officer.

• You will be responsible for managing multiple distributed teams across the North America region.
  
• In this role, you will lead an organization composed of multiple teams of infrastructure and Machine Learning engineers and manage the managers of those teams.
• You will drive the vision and roadmap of all of this client’s machine learning infrastructure, platform, and systems.
• They are looking for an engineering leader who has the passion & experience to lead this client in building an industry-leading machine learning platform.
• The ideal candidate is a creative, proven leader with excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• The ideal candidate is expected to have experience working with cross-functional teams and managing multiple partners, with the ability to influence leaders in other organizations and prioritize between different impactful projects & outcomes.
• This Sr Director is expected to work with science and product leaders to accurately translate business requirements into machine learning solutions, and be responsible for the successful execution of building and operating scalable systems and solutions.
• We are seeking an engineering leader with a deep technical understanding of machine learning and an engineering background in scaling machine learning solutions!

Job Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Drive technical strategy for the MIPS group that meets business and product needs, for example, guide a platform strategy that balances new model development and infrastructure complexity.
• Lead your team to build solutions that accelerate the delivery of high-quality machine learning models into production and provide a great user experience to the teams of data scientists.
• Manage and coach managers of machine learning and platform infrastructure teams.
• Lead the vision of the MIPS organization & be responsible for its technical roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the entire company to make prioritization decisions that balance business need with platform objectives.
• Advise leadership and executives, evangelizing across the company the need to build modern Machine Learning infrastructure that enables state-of-the-art algorithms in production.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's, Masters, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from one of the TOP 10 Computer Science Universities.
• 10+ years of professional paid experience with Machine Learning and e-commerce, web services/microservices platform technologies.
• At least 2 years of director-level experience in leading and coaching managers
• At least 5 years of engineering management experience in large organizations.
• You have experience growing an engineering group to at least 25 people and attracting high-caliber managers and engineers
• You have led company-wide machine learning platform or infrastructure initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• You have a solid understanding of machine learning and the process of delivering related ML technologies into production using publicly available technologies.
• You have experience communicating with non-engineers and executives about deeply technical products
• Experience in managing remote teams

Additional Information

This client does support visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets