[Remote] Head of Machine Learning
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Open Select is a Series B fintech building fraud detection models for financial institutions. They are seeking a Head of Machine Learning to lead a data science team, oversee the model lifecycle, and drive product innovation through research and hands-on mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Grow a team of 2 to 3 data scientists into a team of 5 to 6, and raise the bar with every hire
- Mentor with depth by getting hands-on with your team's work, not from arm's length
- Lead planning and set priorities across product, engineering, and leadership
- Own the full model lifecycle, from data acquisition through production monitoring
- Research emerging fraud patterns and turn what you find into new product directions
- Write production-ready code that powers real-time partner decisions
- Design and present analyses that inform product, risk, marketing, and sales
Skills
- Built and deployed models that were core to a company's business
- Led a data science or applied ML team for at least 4 years
- People who worked for you would join you again
- Write production code yourself
- Pass a rigorous technical assessment without needing to prepare for it
- Come from fintech, cybersecurity, health tech, or insurance
- Think from first principles about ambiguous problems and drive them to deployment without being told how
- Explain complex technical work clearly to senior non-technical stakeholders
- Change their minds
- Experience with identity verification
- Experience with graph databases
- Experience with feature stores
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Remote-friendly
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