Hybrid Director, AI

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Lead the design and deployment of proprietary AI model trained on localized datasets
  • Set the technical roadmap, leading custom AI developments, and pioneering AI solutions and awareness across the firm
  • Set proprietary models for targeted use cases with documented accuracy, latency and ROI targets
  • Stand up a secure AI data layer (feature store, vector DB, retrieval pipelines) over firm content with permissions-aware retrieval
  • Develop auditable governance including model cards, evaluation harness, bias testing, and quarterly review with legal and information security
  • Operationalize CI/CD models / agents, evaluations, observability, rollback and cost tracking
  • Hire and mentor a blended team to machine learning, data and prompt engineers
  • Partner with KM on domain taxonomies, embeddings strategies, and feedback loops to continuously improve models
  • Work with general counsel and privacy operations on confidentiality, data retention, vendor due diligence and AI policy
  • Lead end to end lifecycle including problem framing, data pipelines, model selection, fine tuning, evals, deployment, monitoring and iteration
  • Architect RAG over privileged content with strict access controls
  • Implement safety layers including prompt hardening and output filtering
  • Build evaluation and assurance reference sets from attorney labeled data, offline/online A/B and human in the loop review
  • Own change management and adoption including training plans, playbooks and success metrics with named practice leaders
  • Publish internal guidance on model cards, decision logs, user guidelines

Requirements

  • Preference for experience in regulated industries such as financial services, legal, or healthcare
  • 10+years building ML/AI products
  • 4+ years leading applied ML/LLM teams
  • Hands-on with modern LLM stacks, vector search, orchestration frameworks
  • Strong data engineering foundations (Python, PyTorch, Spark, SQL)
  • MLOps (Docker, feature store, model registry)
  • Demonstrated experience with high sensitivity data and regulated deployments (privacy, privilege and auditability)
  • Great stakeholder management skills with attorneys / partners and business leaders
  • Proven record translating ambiguity into shipped systems

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements and hybrid work schedule
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement & Savings Plan
  • Emergency back-up child and adult care
  • Paid vacation, sick time off, and holidays
  • Professional development and career advancement opportunities
  • Employee recognition and reward programs
  • Employee wellness and assistance programs
  • Employee discounts and perks

Job title

Director, AI

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$235,000 - $315,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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