Senior Manager, Data Science (AI)

Location: UK - London (London Wall)

Company

hirify.global is a global information and analytics company supporting research, healthcare, science education, and clinical practice through high-quality information, data, and technology.

What you will do

• Define AI and data science strategy across machine learning, NLP, search, recommendation, experimentation, and generative AI.
• Lead and develop high-performing data science and AI teams through coaching, prioritization, scientific rigor, and inclusive collaboration.
• Deliver knowledge-discovery systems across the full lifecycle, from experimentation through production, including LLMs, RAG, search, and domain-enriched AI.
• Establish evaluation frameworks, quality metrics, experimentation practices, and responsible AI standards.
• Partner with product, technology, and business leaders to shape roadmaps and align technical work with customer and business outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience in data science, AI/ML, NLP, information retrieval, statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong expertise in machine learning, experimentation, deep learning, generative AI, and production AI systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, semantic search, embeddings, agentic workflows, and knowledge-driven systems.
• Proven success leading and developing technical teams in complex product, platform, or research environments.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and building scalable, maintainable, production-ready AI/ML systems.
• Strong people leadership, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours to support productivity and work-life balance.
• Wellbeing initiatives and country-specific benefits.
• Shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
• A collaborative culture built around trust, respect, agility, and quality.