AI & Data Science Director

Clarity Innovations, Inc.

. AI & Data Science Strategy: Defining and evolving the company’s AI strategy across traditional machine learning, experimentation, evaluation, and generative AI applications.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇸 SpainLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

AI & Data Science Strategy: Defining and evolving the company’s AI strategy across traditional machine learning, experimentation, evaluation, and generative AI applications.
Technical Leadership: Acting as the senior technical anchor for the function, ensuring the team applies strong scientific thinking, robust experimentation practices, and sound engineering judgment.
GenAI Adoption: Identifying where LLMs, agents, and related tooling can materially improve products, workflows, and team leverage, while avoiding hype-driven decisions.
Ecosystem Building: Creating the environment, tooling patterns, and ways of working that allow teams with mixed seniority to build and operate AI solutions effectively.
Team Leadership & Development: Coaching and developing emerging leaders and strong individual contributors, while helping define the right long-term organizational structure.
Cross-functional Translation: Bridging product, engineering, platform, and executive stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives are actionable, aligned, and well-prioritized.
Organizational Stabilization: Providing the seniority and leadership depth needed during a period of team transition and leadership change.
Selective Hiring: Helping calibrate and attract senior profiles who combine machine learning depth, strong judgment, and practical exposure to modern GenAI systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong ML Foundation: Deep grounding in classical machine learning, experimentation, modeling, and scientific reasoning. This is not a GenAI-only profile.
Practical GenAI Experience: Hands-on familiarity with LLMs, agentic patterns, evaluation approaches, and the rapidly evolving GenAI tooling ecosystem.
Senior Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading senior technical teams, shaping organizations, and operating as a trusted partner to executive leadership.
System-Building Mindset: Ability to create the ecosystem, processes, and technical direction that enable more junior team members to execute effectively.
Product & Business Judgment: Strong ability to connect technical decisions with business priorities, product constraints, and execution realities.
People Skills: Ability to build trust, challenge constructively, and lead both upwards and downwards in a demanding environment.
High Adaptability: Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments with high expectations and evolving priorities.
Excellent Communication: Strong written and verbal English, with the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.
Flexibility in ways of working, including remote and hybrid options.
The opportunity to shape a strategically critical AI function at a pivotal moment for the company.
High ownership, high impact, and close collaboration with senior leadership.
A mission-driven environment where your work will influence how sustainability intelligence is delivered at scale.

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningexperimentationmodelingscientific reasoninggenerative AILLMsevaluation approachesGenAI toolingtechnical directionsystem-building

Soft Skills

technical leadershipteam leadershipcoachingcross-functional translationorganizational stabilizationpeople skillshigh adaptabilityexcellent communicationtrust buildingconstructive challenge