Director of AI

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/ $225000 - $265000 annum

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SALARY:

$225000 - $265000

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Job Type
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Permanent

Job Title: Director of AI Transformation, Higher Education

Location: Fully Remote (U.S. based)

Comp: Up to $265,000 base + 15% annual bonus

Role & Company Overview

We're working with a leading name in educational technology, serving millions of learners across K-12 and higher education. This role sits within the Data Enterprise Group and reports directly to the Chief AI Officer.

As the Director of AI Transformation, you'll lead the company's higher education AI strategy-developing and scaling intelligent systems that power personalized learning, adaptive content, and data-driven student outcomes.

This is a high-impact leadership role balancing strategy, technical direction, and collaboration-ideal for someone who loves both leading teams and shaping what applied AI looks like at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team building and deploying AI solutions for higher education customers.
  • Drive the roadmap for AI applications spanning content summarization, adaptive learning, recommendations, and metadata-driven personalization.
  • Provide technical guidance in areas like LLMs, data architecture, and ML Ops while ensuring models are scalable, responsible, and production-ready.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to align AI initiatives with business goals.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, responsible AI use, and continuous learning within your team.
  • Engage with institutional stakeholders to turn real-world academic challenges into AI-powered solutions.

Approximate focus areas:

  • 5% hands-on coding
  • 20% architecture and technical guidance
  • 35% stakeholder collaboration
  • 35% people leadership

Requirements

  • PhD in Applied Math, Statistics, Physics, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in AI or data-driven transformation roles.
  • Strong expertise with PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM applications, and deploying AI models to production.
  • Deep understanding of ModelOps, data architecture, evaluation, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Proven leadership of technical teams and success scaling high-performing AI orgs.
  • Ability to translate complex AI initiatives into actionable, measurable outcomes for business and product partners.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working across executive and technical groups.

CONTACT

Gabriella Varela

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