Job Description
<h3>📋 Description</h3> • We're a top startup in the emerging GEO/AEO space looking for a data science & AI leader.
• We have an experienced, high-performance founding team that has previously built large B2B SaaS businesses in the marketing and CX space.
• In six months, we have built a business that has gone from a handful of early adopters to over 500 top brands using our platform.
• We're growing our customer base and revenue significantly every single month and we're shipping product at high velocity.
• We need to add an exceptional data science leader to create the right products, team and culture to win long-term.
• This category is sometimes called "AI visibility", GEO or AEO, but our ambition goes way past that.
• A major part of our value prop is to help customers manage the chaos of the AI landscape. <h3>🎯 Requirements</h3> • Experiencing building meaningful ML/AI-powered systems, like recommenders, classifiers, sophisticated information retrieval or ranking systems, etc. from zero to one (at a startup or inside an existing enterprise.)
• Experience leading teams — whether large or small – of researchers, data scientists, or AI/ML engineers – in a fast-paced environment. (This will initially be an IC role, but we are growing quickly.)
• Excellent analytical skills and familiarity with modern analysis tools, using SQL on CDWs (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Clickhouse), cloud-based notebook computing, pandas or polars, and more.
• Experience building AI systems using LLMs, VLMs, or smaller transformer-based models – in a rigorous way, starting with looking at the data\! But ideally moving on to building eval suites and setting up ongoing performance monitoring.
• A scientific, but pragmatic approach to experimentation and analysis – we care deeply about delivering value to our customers; sometimes that means shipping a V1 that isn't perfect so we can get the data to ship a V2 that nails it.
• Experience with, and a nuanced appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of, modern consumer/prosumer AI chatbots, search tools and agents a plus <h3>🏖️ Benefits</h3> • Fair cash compensation
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Significant impact on the company's success