Senior Director, AI Research
About The Position
Dataminr is searching for a visionary Senior Director of AI Research to lead and inspire an interdisciplinary team of Research Scientists. This pivotal role demands a leader who can drive cutting-edge research initiatives in NLP, LLMs, and Deep Learning, translating these advancements into real-world, scalable AI-driven products. We are seeking a candidate with a profound research background and a proven ability to manage and mentor scientific teams effectively. Experience overseeing the development and delivery of AI products, from conception through to implementation, is essential. This US-based position offers the flexibility of remote work or can be based in our dynamic New York City office. AI Innovation at Dataminr Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold. Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here. Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
- At least 5 years of management experience in an industrial research environment.
- Experience with using AI to enable world class products in the real world
- Outstanding publication record (AAAI, ACL, CVPR, ICLR, ICML, KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, etc.).
- Deep technical understanding of the latest learning algorithms and toolkits (deep learning, LLMs, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Lead a growing, interdisciplinary team of AI scientists and engineers performing research to advance the state of the art and solve specific problems at scale across our many research areas (ie. Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Multimodal, Knowledge Graphs, Recommendation, Search)
- Provide technical direction for multiple projects, thought leadership, and operational support (by connecting the right dots and helping serve as a liaison between various stakeholders including product, engineering, & design, etc.).
- Work closely with various members of the executive leadership team to ensure alignment of projects and solutions.
- Contribute to the research community and demonstrate thought leadership via talks, publications in top tier venues, participation in program committees, etc.
- Excel in placing a human-centered focus on the work (context, end-user impact, etc), finding solutions that work in practice and have significant impact.
Benefits
- flexible work arrangements
- offices all over the world to foster collaboration
- generous PTO and sick leave
- competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy
- employee resource group (ERG) network
- manager development programming
- professional development funds
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
