Director, Data Science
DuckDuckGoInternet Privacy company
RemoteDirector
Union Square Ventures
OMERS Ventures
Tiger Global Management
Thrive Capital
GP Bullhound
Brian Acton
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Drive data science initiatives to enhance privacy solutions and data-driven decision-making.
- •As Director, Data Science, you'll help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive product and business impact by developing data scientists, setting clear expectations, providing mentorship, and removing blockers.
- •Guide and advise multiple data science projects to stay on track and have timely delivery with maximum impact.
- •Collaborate cross-functionally to validate direction through data and consult on experiments.
- •Drive improvement of the data pipeline and develop strategies for actionable insights in an evidence-first culture.
- •Requirements 10+ years of experience in data science or ML engineering, with 4+ years leading teams.
- •Experience driving organizational culture toward data-driven decision-making.
- •Ability to coach experienced data scientists and translate technical tradeoffs and risks clearly.
- •Expert level deployment and iteration of ML and NLP solutions in production.
- •Advanced SQL and query optimization skills, familiarity with columnar databases.
- •Strong LLM/AI experience including fine-tuning, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and AI-assisted development.
Required skills
PythonSQLTensorFlowMentoringNLPMLflowKubeflowSageMakerVertex AIONNXJAXBigQueryRedshift
Nice-to-have skills
PyTorchscikit-learnOpenAPIREST API
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonSQLBigQueryRedshiftTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnOpenAPIREST APIDockerKubernetesCI/CD