Manager, Data Science & Research

What you will do
You will lead a team of experienced Data Scientists while remaining deeply involved in the technical work.

This is a hands-on leadership role (~70% hands-on) combining direct modeling work with ownership of team direction and execution.

You will work on core systems that operate at a massive scale, where:

Data is abundant, but labels are scarce and expensive

problems are long-tail and ambiguous

Systems must meet strict latency and cost constraints (pre-bid)

Your responsibilities include:

Lead development of content classification systems across social platforms (Meta, TikTok, YouTube), web, and apps

Design and build models across computer vision, NLP, and multimodal pipelines

Own the full lifecycle: data selection -> labeling strategy -> training -> evaluation -> deployment

Develop strategies for efficient data curation and labeling (active learning, auto-labeling, sampling under scale)

Improve model quality (precision/recall) while balancing cost, latency, and scale

Drive automation systems (auto-labeling, auto-curation, retraining loops)

Apply modern AI approaches (LLMs, embeddings, foundation models) to real production problems

Lead and mentor a team of senior Data Scientists, setting technical direction and pushing execution forward

Work closely with ML Engineering, Product, and Policy to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable systems