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SentiLink · 4 days ago

Head of Machine Learning

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$210K/yr - $260K/yr

10+ years exp

SentiLink is a company that provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. They are seeking a Head of Machine Learning to manage a team of data scientists, focusing on developing fraud detection models and advancing their suite of products in financial risk. The role requires strong technical leadership and end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Cyber SecurityFraud DetectionIdentity ManagementInformation TechnologyNetwork Security

No H1B

Responsibilities

Directly manage a team of highly skilled data scientists. Start from 2-3 and grow to 5-6

Act as a technical mentor that can dive deep and provide detailed direction

Lead planning, resourcing and communications with senior leadership, product and engineering teams

Develop strong business intuition and guide your team to deliver performant DS solutions on aggressive timelines

Develop and maintain SentiLink’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring

Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification

Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources and inventive feature engineering

Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision making by our partners

Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts

Qualification

Python 3PostgreSQLAWS infrastructureData Science managementMachine LearningStatistical analysisProduction code writingFast-paced problem solvingCommunicationTeam playerDetail oriented

Required

10+ years relevant work experience & relevant Masters or 7+ years & relevant PhD

2-5 years experience directly managing a team of data scientists, ideally in a startup environment

3+ years of startup experience

Excellent communicator and team player

Proven track record of solving complex / high profile business problems with DS / ML solutions

Experience in communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders

Very strong in 'end to end' DS development: Planning, fleshing out success criteria / metrics, getting buy-in, developing the solution, delivering the solution (prod / deck / strategy doc / etc)

Strong practical ML / Stats knowledge, i.e. can easily employ the suite of standard ML / stats tools to quickly scope out solutions, and double down where needed

Interest in developing deep domain expertise for product-focused work: a background in fraud is not required, but willingness to learn is

Experience writing production code and tests

Detail oriented and thoughtful—someone we can rely on to make business-changing decisions

Thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States