Position: ML Practice leader (Poland)
Company: Provectus
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Provectus helps companies adopt AI to transform the ways they operate, compete, and drive value.
The focus of the company is on building ML Infrastructure to drive end-to-end AI transformations, assisting businesses in adopting the right AI use cases, and scaling their AI initiatives organization-wide in such industries as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & CPG, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, and Internet businesses.
The role of a Practice Leader is the most important for the company’s Machine Learning practice, because it is not only about managing people, but also requires things to be done. A Practice Leader must have sufficient technical experience to maintain and demonstrate the best market practices while keeping abreast of the latest technologies.

Requirements:
- Practical experience with high-performance programming language.
- Strong understanding of Python patterns & best practices.
- Experience in productionizing of several models (different types).
- Strong understanding of ML project lifecycle.
- Practical experience with creating training datasets involving human annotators.
- Practical experience with variety of datasources (OLTP, OLAP, DataLake, Streaming).
- Practical experience Spark, Dask or similar (distributed data processing).
- Ability to explain every design choice one makes.
- Experience with writing DeepLearning models from scratch.
- Practical experience with model post-production & maintenance: model and data monitoring, retraining automation, etc.
- Ability to make reusable components of ML pipelines.
- Ability to explain decisions, status and roadmap to non-technical customer representatives .
- Experience in the following areas: NLP, CV, forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning.
- Practical experience with /AWS/other cloud/open source alternatives/ MLOps platforms, frameworks and libraries.
- Experience in team/department leadership.
- Relationship/team building. Leadership requires building and maintaining a solid and collaborative team of individuals working toward the same goal.
- Ability to teach and mentor. The role assumes providing employees with their career path and helping them achieve goals.
- Diplomatic skills. It means more than just "communication skills" and includes ethics, empathy, compassion, and the ability to resolve conflicts.
- Calmness. People are complicated, and it is required to be ready for any objectives or misunderstandings.

Will be a plus:
- Public speaking experience.


Responsibilities:
- Build effective teams.
- Participate in meetups, conferences, and build community.
- Share best practices and culture with the team.
- Mentor engineers, coach Team Leads, and encourage others to share knowledge.
- Have technical excellence and be an influencer in different teams/projects.
- Hire and onboard newcomers.
- Conduct performance reviews, 1-on-1 meetings.
- Identify and address team gaps in knowledge.
- Evaluate, improve and maintain processes.
- Сollaborate with other managers across the company.
- Communicate and follow the company's mission, vision, and values.