Senior Director of Data Science – Data Analytics (AI)

Location: Arlington, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded Fortune 500 homebuilder that constructs and sells homes and provides mortgage financing and title services.

What you will do

• Set the applied data science strategy, standards, talent model, and technical roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Lead portfolios of forecasting, optimization, experimentation, machine learning, and advanced analytics products.
• Ensure analytics initiatives begin with measurable business decisions and outcomes, selecting reliable and appropriately simple approaches.
• Establish rigor for validation, experimentation, monitoring, explainability, reproducibility, and model lifecycle management.
• Partner with Product, Forward Deployed Engineering, Platform, Architecture, Governance, and business SMEs to move models from research into production workflows.
• Identify and pilot data, AI, digital, and software opportunities while representing the function in discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and improvement activities.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of data science, machine learning, optimization, advanced analytics, or related experience, including technical leadership.
• Deep expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, forecasting, experimentation, optimization, and model evaluation.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience deploying models into enterprise production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to connect advanced analytics to measurable business decisions and outcomes.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, deliver results in an evolving environment, and build trusted cross-functional relationships.
• Ability to supervise two or more employees and travel overnight.

Nice to have

• Experience in operations research, pricing, demand forecasting, land or real estate, supply chain, construction, or capital allocation.
• Experience leading LLM, document AI, or computer vision initiatives.
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
• Experience working in a large, complex enterprise.
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Culture & Benefits

• Enterprise role focused on practical innovation, local ownership, business partnerships, and measurable results.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, flex spending accounts, and life and disability insurance.
• Vacation, sick, personal time, company holidays, and additional voluntary and company-provided benefits.