ML Engineering Manager

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/ $200000 - $245000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $245000

Location

LOCATION

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Role Level: Manager

Industry: Fintech / E-Commerce Risk & Fraud

About the Role

We are recruiting on behalf of a leading technology organization building cutting-edge Machine Learning products that power critical, real-time e-commerce decisions at scale.

We are looking for a ML Engineering Manager to lead a team of high-performing engineers. In this role, you will operate in an environment where every challenge is a mix of experimentation, scalable code, and statistics. You will split your team's focus between continuous, near-term model improvements and high-impact, long-horizon innovation bets.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love digging into code and evaluation pipelines, and know how to empower engineers to do their best work, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead & Grow the Team

  • People Leadership: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, and support individual career development and skill growth.
  • Culture: Foster a safe, transparent environment where open discussion is encouraged-including celebrating well-documented experimental results that didn't work.
  • Hiring: Conduct technical and hiring manager interviews, train the team on interviewing techniques, and raise the bar for talent as the team grows.

2. Manage a Portfolio of Experiments

  • Technical Mentorship: Partner with Tech Leads to pressure-test and refine ideas, ensuring the strongest hypotheses receive the compute and headcount needed.
  • Rigor & Evaluation: Bring statistical rigor to experimental outcomes. Ensure offline results predict online behavior and evaluate performance beyond single test windows.
  • Portfolio Management: Balance short-term delivery targets against multi-quarter research bets. Make clear calls on when to iterate, launch, or pull the plug on workstreams.

3. Partner & Drive Direction

  • Stakeholder Alignment: Work directly with Risk partners to translate complex ML metrics into actionable business outcomes.
  • Autonomy: Operate with high autonomy to set team directions based on measured performance data rather than rigid product backlogs.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to improve feature systems, training pipelines, and experimentation tooling.

What You Bring

  • Experience: 5+ years in ML, Data Science, or ML-adjacent software engineering, including 3+ years of direct people management experience.
  • Technical Depth: Genuine depth in applied statistics, ML engineering, or software engineering-with working competence in the others. You should feel comfortable reading code and inspecting evaluation pipelines.
  • Leadership Under Uncertainty: Proven ability to lead teams through ambiguous problem spaces, set clear directions, and adapt when data points in a new direction.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly in documents and present to executive leadership.
  • High Bar for Quality: A strong commitment to correctness, reproducibility, and reliable production systems.

Why Apply?

  • Drive high-impact innovation bets that shape the future of ML capabilities.
  • Lead a collaborative, ground-up culture where those closest to the problems are empowered to solve them.
  • Enjoy a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, evidence-driven engineering environment.

CONTACT

Anthony Goodvin

Sourcing Consultant

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