Senior Director, Applied Science

** Job Description*
* Gains alignment with cross-functional leaders and executives for the strategic direction of the organization to better identify business and product needs, and identifies solutions to address product and/or business problems. Drives research strategies tend-to-end applied research: surveying state of the art, preparing high-quality datasets, running POCs/experiments, and designing, training, and optimizing ML/AI models and solution architectures. Forecasts and negotiates resource needs and secures resources to enable operations support and ensure successful delivery of solutions and drive the technical strategy.

Participates in the research community by publishing and presenting research findings and serving as a keynote speaker.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Solution Identification:*
* -Gains alignment with cross-functional leaders and executives for the strategic direction of the organization to better identify and address strategic, critical business and product needs related to the use of machine learning (ML) and/or artificial intelligence (AI).

-Leads other leaders to set quality standards and ensure the execution of the end-to-end science strategy to address multiple product and/or business problems.

-Drives the design and implementation of research and development strategies for innovative products and services across the organization.

** Solution Development - Applied Research:*
* -Drives the design and implementation of standards for the development and piloting of research proofs-of-concept (POCs) or research experiments to demonstrate the feasibility of proposed solutions, gather supporting evidence, and secure support and funding for applied research.

-Drives the design of group-wide standards for the selection and preparation of datasets for applied research. Establishes processes to ensure that high quality, comprehensive datasets are used across the organization.

-Drives research strategies to identify new theories, tools, and methodologies to transfer and apply state-of-the-art technologies into products and services or make advancements in the field.

** Solution Development:*
* -Defines and refines group-wide standards for the design, development, and optimization of ML and AI technologies, such as model training/fine-tuning and computation optimizations.

-Drives the use of best practices for the architecture of ML and AI solutions, such as data, model, training, and evaluation across the group.

** Solution Development - Articulating Research Insights:*
* -Drives the use of best practices across the group to identify meaningful insights from data and metadata sources from analysis and experiments.

-Advises on the interpretation and communication of insights and findings throughout the organization.

-Leads the creation of patents, white papers, or other technical documentation related to applied research outcomes.

** Solution Delivery - Coding and Documentation:*
* -Develops group processes for the development of efficient, bug-free code from scratch, as well as the maintenance and organization of the existing codebase.

-Forms and communicates best practices for version control, code review, and code delivery/deployment.

-Reviews and refines professional documentation for technical processes (experimentation, data collection and analyses, model building).

-Advocates for the use of additional tools to improve productivity.

** Solution Delivery:*
* -Forecasts and negotiates resource needs and secures resources to enable operations support and ensure successful delivery of solutions and drive the technical strategy.

-Leverages strategic partnerships to remove barriers to the successful and timely delivery of solutions and integration of services.

-Forms cross-functional partnerships to facilitate the deployment of solutions into production environments.

** Building Research Capability - Research Excellence:*
* -Promotes a culture of excellence related to applied research technology areas across the group.

-Builds domain expertise across the group and drives the use of best practices in applied research across the group.

** Building Research Capability - Research Community Presence:*
* -Leads the publication, presentation, and internal and external review (e.g., serves as an academic journal editor) of high-impact research findings and papers in top-tier conferences, research and industry outlets, etc.

-Serves as a keynote speaker in top-tier conferences or panels.

-Establishes collaboration with internal/external research labs.

** Core Responsibilities*
* ** Planning & Execution:*
* -Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success.

-Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs.

-Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in…