Director, Data Science/ML (AI)

Location: United States (Remote)

Salary: $240,000–$270,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global is a chef-focused food marketplace delivering fresh, ready-to-eat meals and expanding beyond delivery through technology-driven product innovation.

What you will do

• Define and execute the product data science strategy in partnership with Product, Growth, Engineering, and UX leadership.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing product data science team.
• Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle, from problem framing and feature development through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Develop personalization, recommendation, predictive modeling, experimentation, and causal inference capabilities.
• Define product metrics, build monitoring systems and dashboards, and analyze user behavior to identify optimization opportunities.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering and the Growth Data Science & Analytics team to create a cohesive data science ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years of data science experience, including at least 5 years leading data scientists or ML engineers.
• Production experience building and deploying ML models, especially for personalization, recommendation systems, or predictive modeling.
• Deep expertise in experimentation, A/B testing, causal inference, incrementality measurement, and statistical rigor.
• Strong product sense, business acumen, communication skills, and experience influencing product strategy.
• Hands-on proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern ML frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Snowflake and ML Ops tools including MLflow, Airflow, or Kubeflow.

Nice to have

• PhD or Master's degree in a quantitative field.
• Experience with real-time ML systems, feature stores, recommendation systems, embeddings, generative AI, or LLM applications.
• Experience building data science teams from scratch or scaling them rapidly.
• Background in subscription, retention-focused, consumer tech, e-commerce, or marketplace products.
• Knowledge of Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Looker.

Culture & Benefits

• Health insurance, 401(k), stock options granted on Day 1, and eligibility for a bi-annual performance bonus.
• Unlimited PTO, paid family leave, compassionate leave, and a four-week paid sabbatical after five years.
• Monthly hirify.global meal credits and fitness subsidies.
• Enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude, plus a personalized Spanish coach.
• AI-forward workplace focused on innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.