Director of AI

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New York / $201000 - $260000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

$201000 - $260000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Director of AI

New York, New York | 4 days on-site (+ some travel)

$240,000-260,000 base salary + bonus + benefits

My client is a fast-growing, private equity firm that has billion-dollar portfolio companies. They are looking for their first Director of AI to build machine learning models and help support efforts in advising clients on strategy transformation. You will leverage NLP and machine learning skills, working directly with internal and external clients to advance their business processes. This is a hands-on position, which will grow the team over the next year.

THE ROLE

  • Collaborate with the engineering team to find solutions for clients through ML-based initiatives.
  • Work on initiatives across investment risk, compliance, and internal company AI automation
  • Build out machine learning/LLM products in the first several months with the opportunity to build out an AI team around you.
  • Support clients in developing and monitoring KPIs through NLP/LLM and ML solutions that align with project demands.
  • Create solutions for clients to remain competitive in their respective industries through the use of NLP/LLM to leverage new customer opportunities.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

A successful Director of AI will likely have the following skills and experience:

  • 7+ commercial years of experience
  • College degree in a quantitative, STEM field
  • Track record of communicating with and managing non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience leading projects end-to-end and mentoring junior team members (direct reports are ideal, but not required)
  • History of building machine learning and NLP models: text summarization, classification, entity extraction, etc.
  • Prior management consulting experience preferred
  • Expert in Python and experience with common NLP packages: spaCy, NLTK, gensim, BERT, etc.
  • Exposure to visualization tools
  • Proficiency in Azure cloud platform preferred, but not required

THE BENEFITS

A competitive base salary of $240,000-260,000 + bonus + benefits

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Cassie Wandell via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Data Science | Machine Learning | Finance | LLM | LLMs | Large Language Models | Private Equity | Python | Consulting | Management Consulting | NLP | Natural Language Processing | Deep Learning | Statistics | Project Leadership | Project Management | Stakeholder Management | Team Leadership

CONTACT

Cassie Wandell

Recruitment Consultant

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