Director of Data Science – Tax & Compliance

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New York / $300000 - $350000 annum

INFO

Salary
SALARY:

$300000 - $350000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Director of Data Science - Tax & Compliance

Location: 2-3 days/week hybrid in New York, New York

Compensation: $300,000 - $350,000 base salary + performance bonus + equity

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We are partnered with a high-growth financial services company at the intersection of AI, legal tech, and compliance, which is fundamentally transforming how regulated industries leverage language models and machine learning. This organization is building sophisticated NLP/LLM systems to streamline complex workflows for legal and financial professionals.

With executive-level support and increasing product demand, they're seeking a Director of Data Science to lead strategy, research, and engineering execution across NLP and LLM initiatives for tax, compliance and auditing projects. This is a rare opportunity to drive technical vision, shape an elite ML team, and build impactful AI systems from the ground up in a regulated space.

THE ROLE

As Director of Data Science, you'll be responsible for setting the long-term machine learning roadmap, leading technical teams, and ensuring the successful development and deployment of scalable NLP solutions. You will report directly to the Head of AI and work closely with executive leadership, product, and engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define and align AI solutions with tax, audit, and compliance strategies to meet business goals and regulatory requirements.

  • Build and manage a high-performing team focused on AI-driven tax, audit, and compliance innovations.

  • Oversee end-to-end model development, ensuring AI solutions support regulatory adherence and operational efficiency.

  • Collaborate with product, legal, engineering, and finance teams to design scalable, compliant AI solutions.

  • Research and implement emerging LLM and NLP technologies to optimize tax reporting, auditing, and compliance processes.

  • Represent the company in industry discussions, advocating for ethical AI and best practices in financial services.

  • Ensure AI models are continuously monitored, optimized, and updated to meet changing regulations and business needs.

  • Implement MLOps frameworks to ensure secure, transparent, and auditable AI deployments in financial operations.

  • Champion data privacy, security, and compliance within AI models to adhere to regulations like GDPR and AML/KYC.

  • Drive the development of AI tools that automate tax, audit, and compliance workflows, enhancing accuracy and efficiency.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in machine learning and data science, with at least 4+ years in a leadership or managerial role.
  • Comfortable leading teams of 15+ data scientists and machine learning engineers
  • Demonstrated success building and leading teams that develop and deploy NLP/LLM models at scale.
  • Deep expertise in Python, ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), and modern NLP tools (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy).
  • Experience designing and implementing ML systems in production, especially with large language models (e.g., GPT, BERT, T5).
  • Extensive tax, compliance and/or audit domain experience.
  • Comfortable with regulatory compliance processes, risk management, data privacy.
  • Familiarity with the SEC, FCA and FINRA preferred
  • Proven ability to align technical initiatives with business goals, working cross-functionally with product and exec teams.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and scalable ML pipelines.
  • PhD or Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Publication or open-source contributions in NLP/ML domains (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP) a plus.

THE BENEFITS

  • Senior-Level Management Compensation: $300,000 - $350,000 base + bonus + tangible equity.
  • Hybrid Work Culture: 2-3 days/week in office in New York.
  • Elite Talent Environment: Collaborate with top-tier researchers, engineers, and domain experts.
  • Comprehensive Benefits: Full health, dental, vision, 401(k), and wellness programs.
  • Strategic Impact: Lead a core function at the center of the company's long-term success.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit your resume to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page. We're excited to connect with experienced ML leaders ready to guide cutting-edge AI development in a deeply impactful space.

KEYWORDS:

Director | Machine Learning | NLP | LLMs | AI Leadership | ML Strategy | Deep Learning | Natural Language Processing | AI Platforms | NLU | NLG | Information Retrieval | Large Language Models | Legal Tech | Financial Services | Model Deployment | Engineering Management | AI Infrastructure | Hugging Face | Generative AI | Enterprise AI | Tax | Accounting | Audit | Auditing | Compliance | Regulatory | Risk Management | Data Privacy | Governance

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Tim Jonas
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