Senior Director – AI Initiatives
Arootah
Manager, AI and Applied Research
Thomson Reuters
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • Minnesota, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $157,500 - $292,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
CloudMicroservicesPython
About the role
- Direct the efforts of a team of Applied Scientists and Research Engineers, ensuring a high-performance culture.
- Nurture your team’s career development and manage performance expectations through servant leadership and active coaching.
- Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of applied scientists.
- Translate state-of-the-art AI research into scalable, production-ready solutions.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define and execute the AI-driven product roadmap.
- Oversee scaling of experiment and LLMOps platforms, balancing reusability and innovation.
- Explore emerging technologies, foster experimentation, and share impact and ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- PhD in a relevant discipline or Master’s plus a comparable level of experience
- 8+ years hands-on experience building IR/NLP systems for commercial applications
- Strong experience in GenAI/Rag/LLM
- Prior management experience – coaching & developing high-performing teams
- Strong track record of delivering AI solutions at scale in enterprise environments
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align AI initiatives with business goals
- Experience delivering minimum viable products in a large enterprise environment
- Demonstrable experience translating complex problems into successful AI applications
- Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery
- Expertise in several of the following areas: robust Python development, MLOps, containerization, cloud infrastructure, advanced search and recommendation technology, orchestration of ML pipelines for real-time inference, microservices architecture, model monitoring and governance.
- Outstanding communication, problem solving, and analysis skills
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Comprehensive benefit plans
- Flexible vacation
- Mental Health Days off
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Flexible work arrangements
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI solutionsIR systemsNLP systemsGenAIRagLLMPython developmentMLOpscontainerizationmicroservices architecture
Soft skills
servant leadershipcoachingteam developmentcommunicationproblem solvinganalysisinfluencing stakeholdersperformance managementmentoringcollaboration
Certifications
PhDMaster's degree
