AlixPartners · 1 week ago
AI & Machine Learning - Director
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $400K/yr
10+ years expAlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses successfully address their most complex and critical challenges. The Performance Improvement Director role involves leading projects and client engagements, analyzing corporate performance, and driving improvements in cost reductions, revenue growth, and profitability.
Business DevelopmentConsultingProfessional Services
Responsibilities
Are you looking for a future that exceeds your expectations? AlixPartners, a leading global consulting firm, is searching for a Performance Improvement Director who is passionate about delivering high value, complex opportunities
Our advisory/consulting organization is distinctive - we offer our consulting professionals the opportunity to work on situations that are literally on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, as well as at the top of Board Room agendas
We work for owners, boards and CEOs and they hire AlixPartners to assist on solving their most complex, highest value opportunities
Our practice works with healthy, under-performing and distressed companies across a variety of urgent, high impact situations
Our seasoned professionals are recognized experts in their respective fields, using their skills and experience to build measurable, better outcomes for our clients
In this challenging role, you will be responsible for leading projects and client engagements, analyzing corporate performance, driving cost reductions, revenue growth and profitability improvement in your industry or functional area(s) of expertise in ‘high stakes’ situations
In this leadership role, you will work with others and be instrumental in developing and building a business in your area(s) of expertise
To be successful, you are commercially savvy, with a passion for and track record of business development contributions in a professional services environment
As part of our collaborative team, you will have the opportunity to achieve exceptional results in our high energy environment, with continuous opportunities to pursue your professional development, career interests and growth aspirations
In this role, you will have the chance to create ETL workflows, scripts, statistical models, and visualizations while taking responsibility for the design, build, test, execution, and support of the data migration, cleansing, wrangling, etc
The ideal candidate will have a detailed understanding of the underlying data and data structures of multiple systems to allow in depth analysis of existing and potential data insights
Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
Execute machine learning projects using state-of-the-art methods
Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
Build effective, reliable, and robust ETL processes that govern the data ingestion flow
Design database models, consistent table structures, and advanced dimensional schemas that carry out data quality and consistency standards
Apply modeling approaches, business intelligence patterns, and data management techniques
Demonstrate advanced SQL skills, such as CTEs and window functions, to work with extensive amounts of data at various aggregation levels
Review and analyze legacy code/scripts to understand data processing logic and business rules
Ability to apply statistical learning languages to build predictive models that enrich, expand, and allow deeper understanding of data analyses and solutions
Use interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI to present results in a compelling manner
Ability to tell a convincing story to C-level executives using visual charts and dashboards
Present complicated technical findings to a non-technical audience
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with concentration in Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative field
10+ years of applicable professional experience
Ability to synthesize the requests received from team members at client sites
Desire to actively engage in geographically dispersed teams
Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
Knowledge of any of the following languages: Python, JavaScript, C#, or similar plus familiarity with at least one ETL tool (such as Alteryx, KNIME, SSIS, Pentaho, or DataStage)
Motivated to discover and learn new analytical techniques and software tools to improve the quality of our work
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Proficiency in other languages is a plus
Ability and willingness to work long hours and travel if necessary, to meet client demands
Ability to work full-time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
Willingness to work outside of normal U.S. business hours, and in particular as unique projects/needs arise
Must become familiar with, and promote and abide by, our Core Values as defined by the AlixPartners' Code of Conduct and foster an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
Preferred
Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc
Experience with common data science toolkits, such as Python, PySpark, R. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
Understanding of cloud architectures. Some knowledge in Azure, AWS or GCP is desired
Demonstrate advanced SQL skills, such as CTEs and window functions, to work with extensive amounts of data at various aggregation levels
Distributed systems knowledge, specially of HDFS and the Hadoop ecosystem
Use interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI to present results in a compelling manner
Ability to tell a convincing story to C-level executives using visual charts and dashboards
Present complicated technical findings to a non-technical audience
Benefits
Health
Vision
Dental
Disability
401K
Tuition reimbursement
Identity theft protection
Mental wellness support
Generous paid leave policy including vacation/personal time starting at 7.34 hours per pay period
Sick time up to 80 hours annually
Parental leave
Twelve holidays
Company
AlixPartners
For more than forty years, AlixPartners has helped businesses around the world respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges – circumstances as diverse as urgent performance improvement, accelerated transformation, complex restructuring and risk mitigation.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
David Garfield
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Rob Hornby
Co-CEO
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