Vice President of Technology
Added: 6/6/2022
REF: 17534
Contract: Permanent
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Vice President of Machine Learning & Engineering
Our client are a next-generation Artificial Intelligence start-up who are creating world-class algorithms to better predict and understand consumer behavior. They leverage best-in-class models to build highly scalable products and services to deliver precise recommendations without infringing on consumer data privacy.
As a Vice President of Machine Learning & Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in building and scaling their applied machine learning processes, technical infrastructure, and team. You will be the highest-ranking technical employee in the company with immeasurable impact!
Responsibilities:
- Being involved in key strategic decision-making processes in areas like machine learning, data pipelines, web infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, internal tooling, microservices, etc.
- Leading from the front as a hands-on manager that builds robust systems and manages, coaches, supports, and mentors their ML, software, and data engineers.
- Owning systems end-to-end and being the driver behind building new features, scaling infrastructure, and continuously modernizing our tech stack.
- Rapidly scaling our technology team by attracting and retaining exceptional, industry-leading talent.
Technical Qualifications:
- B.S. in a highly quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent experience (Advanced Degree preferred)
- 8+ years of technical project leadership in cloud-native, ML, and engineering-heavy projects.
- 4+ of Applied Machine Learning and Data experience
- 1+ years of start-up experience
- Proven experience with HTTP API Architecture (REST preferred)
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
Bonus:
- Interest in Recommendation, Personalization, Search, and general eCommerce systems/engines
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