Position: Managing Director, Deep Learning Practice
Company: Neurons Lab
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

The main goal of the Managing Director of Deep Learning Practice is to grow and maintain high customer satisfaction index (90-100%)

Key results

Delivery
- Grow CSI to 100%
- Grow % of projects delivered in project terms (margin/deadline/scope) to 100%

Challenges & responsibilities
- accountability for the customer success in the practice department
- projects ownership, coordinating work of the project teams
- being responsible for customer success in projects that require SOTA AI/ML approaches
- collection and implementation of best practices for data and experiment management, distributed models training, etc
- leadership for cloud-network of ML consultants from all over the world, accumulation, and structuring of the knowledge and best practices from the unique projects

Behavioural characteristics
- aspiring
- with ability to learn + continuous learner
- with ownership mindset
- with partnership mindset
- with entrepreneurial mindset
- focused on result and problem-solving
- opened to feedback
- with systematic thinking
- great communicator
- agile
- innovative, explorative
- with empathy

Skills
- client relationship management and negotiations
- presentation, storytelling, and documentation development
- hands-on machine learning engineering and data science
- hands-on mathematical modelling / mathematical problem formulation
- project engagement and management
- AI product management
- advanced English

Knowledge
- machine-learning in-depth understanding (statistical machine learning, mathematical foundations, ties to the neighbouring fields)
- machine-learning in-width understanding (at least 2 from):
- computer vision
- natural language processing
- voice and speech processing
- time-series analysis and digital signal processing
- recommender systems
- tabular data analysis
- machine-learning in-time understanding (following latest conferences, publications, open-source solutions, and datasets)
- machine-learning product embedding understanding
- DS/ML project management methodologies

Experience
- MSc or PhD degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related fields
- delivery of solutions based on complex state-of-the-art white papers (>5 years)
- consulting experience (>2 years)
- leading teams more than 15 people (>2 years)
- Kaggle winning in related competitions is a plus
- publications and public speeches track record (preferred)
- pre-sales/sales and 2+ personally closed deals (preferred)