Director of AI and Automation

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New York / $240000 - $260000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

$240000 - $260000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

THE COMPANY
My client is a rapidly growing private equity firm with a portfolio of billion-dollar companies. They are hiring their first Director of AI to spearhead machine learning initiatives and advise clients on strategic transformation. This is a hands-on leadership role, offering the opportunity to build AI-driven solutions while scaling a team over the next year.

THE ROLE
As Director of AI, you will:

  • Partner with engineering teams to develop ML-based solutions for clients.
  • Drive AI initiatives across investment risk, compliance, and internal automation.
  • Build and deploy machine learning/LLM products within the first few months.
  • Help clients track key metrics using NLP, LLMs, and machine learning models.
  • Develop AI strategies that give clients a competitive edge in their industries.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
The ideal candidate will have:

  • 7+ years of commercial experience in AI/ML.
  • A degree in a quantitative or STEM field.
  • Proven ability to communicate with and influence non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience leading end-to-end ML projects and mentoring team members.
  • Strong background in NLP, including text summarization, classification, and entity extraction.
  • Expertise in Python and NLP libraries (spaCy, NLTK, gensim, BERT, etc.).
  • Exposure to data visualization tools.
  • Experience with Azure (preferred but not required).
  • Consulting experience is a plus.

THE BENEFITS

  • Competitive base salary of $240,000-260,000
  • Bonus and full benefits package
  • Opportunity to shape AI strategy and build a high-impact team

HOW TO APPLY
Register your interest by sending your resume to Jack Wolf via the Apply link on this page.

CONTACT

Jack Wolf

Recruitment Consultant

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