Head of Data Science
Monday.comWork Management company
Tel Aviv, IsraelDirector
Sapphire Ventures
Hamilton Lane
HarbourVest Partners
ION Crossover Partners
Vintage Investment Partners
Genesis Partners
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead data science for AI agents and manage the R&D Data Science Guild at monday.com.
- •This is a dual-mandate, player-coach role for a senior data science leader who still wants to be close to the hardest technical problems.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the data science agenda for monday's agentic product: what "good" looks like, how it's measured, and how we close the gap between the two.
- •Design and build the evaluation stack for agents in production: LLM-as-judge rubrics, trajectory analysis, error taxonomies, regression suites, and post-deployment monitoring.
- •Drive model, prompt, context, and tool-use decisions with evidence: run the experiments, dig into raw traces, and turn findings into concrete changes the engineering team ships.
- •Partner with Agents product and engineering leads on roadmap, tradeoffs (quality vs. cost vs. latency), and launch decisions.
- •Set the vision and standards for data science at monday: methodology, tooling, evaluation practices, and what "production-grade" means for data scientists embedded in product teams.
- •Requirements 8+ years in data science / applied ML, with significant recent experience building and evaluating LLM-based or agentic systems in production.
- •Deep, practical understanding of how agents actually work: models, context management, tool use, harnesses, and where they break.
- •Strong evaluation instincts and experience: you have designed metrics and judges that a team trusted enough to ship on, and you know when a metric is lying. 3+ years managing data scientists, ideally including a distributed or matrixed setup where your people sit inside other teams.
- •MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
Required skills
PythonLLMsPostgreSQLAirflowdbtEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
AWSKubernetesCI/CDGitJiraSlackExcelPowerPoint
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonLLMsAirflowdbtPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesCI/CDGitJiraSlackExcelPowerPoint
