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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Role Summary
An established people leader who typically leads a larger team of data scientists and machine learning engineers (5-10 people) and delivers work for defined domains / capability areas. Collaborates with senior management, supported by product and development partners, to deliver a portfolio of work and a high performing, well managed and talented team.
Experience
• 8+ years for Bachelor's
• 6+ years for Master's
• 3+ years for PhD
People management
• 2+ years
Education
• Recruited at least 2 data scientists or machine learning engineers to own team.
• Performance managed at least 1 cycle effectively managing talent.
• Managed individuals in different locations.
• Contributed to department talent planning.
Functional/ Technical Skills
• Supervised Machine Learning
• Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Machine Learning Software Development Life Cycle
• Computing Language Skills (Python or Java, SQL)
• Business Acumen
• Visualization
• Training Data Management & Feature Engineering
• Active Listening
• Communication and Influencing
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Project and Stakeholder Management
• Talent Assessment and Interviewing
• Budget Management
• Coaching
• Career Development
• People and Team Management
• Goal Setting and OKR Management
• Core Product Management Principles
• AI Ethics
Role Expectations
• Has significant experience in at least one major ML programming language (Python, Scala…) and is familiar with others.
• Applies knowledge of software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
• Configures, maintains and optimizes storage and processing environments (cloud, prem, cluster management etc.).
• Experiences writing code in a way that enables efficient and accurate translation into a data pipeline.
• Has a good understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning theory.
• Has 2-4 years experience in industrial application of machine learning.
• Applies fundamental machine learning models, algorithms and techniques using standard libraries to tackle business problems with some guidance.
• Performs basic level of modification/adaptation to models and techniques to suit business needs.
• Iteratively identifies strong features with some mentorship.
• Spends a large amount of time and help to improve model generalization and robustness.
• Perform proper model performance evaluation without help.

• Builds end-to-end design of models based on detailed understanding of business requirements, including approach, choice of algorithm and data sources.
• Seeks relevant academic papers and experience to point out strengths and weaknesses of current models and recommends more sophisticated designs when needed.
• Displays advanced domain knowledge(i.e. travel, online retail), business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives), and critical reasoning skills.
•Selects valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solves for the objective, not the ask (i.e. not just order-taking).
• Uses advanced and sophisticated understanding of the business problem space to inform the design of the solution.
• Demonstrates a critical understanding of functional information (such as legal, data/metrics, and technical information) and accurately answers relevant questions.
• Knows and applies data visualization principles consistently to result in clear and consistent outcomes.
• Builds complex charts with limited supervision.
• Consistently uses color palettes effectively and is aware of end user fatigue.
• Creates clear and consistent visualizations with feedback from peers and stakeholders.
• Is familiar with basic UX and UI concepts.
• Possesses familiar knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• Embeds visualization from tools utilizing basic techniques, such as iframes.
• Knows industry standard and EG visualization tooling capabilities well, creates complex calculations using advanced features.
• Communicates team goals, progress and outputs within and across teams.
• Understands functional metrics and approaches new insights strategically, considering impacts to the wider business strategy.
• Applies and provides strategic recommendations to our functional toolsets that are aligned with the wider business strategy.
• Communicates across various levels of the organization and influences partners and senior leaders with audience appropriate messages and relevant information.
• Proactively contributes to cross-team collaboration and leads alignment of work with broader initiatives.
• Substantially contributes to the team culture by spreading enthusiasm and encouraging goodwill towards the department.
• Guides individual contributors and managers in the development of team and individual goals, provides regular and specific feedback, and assesses individual and team performance.
• Encourages and supports education and professional development of individual contributors and managers.
• Mentors individual contributors and managers by providing advice and recommendations based on experience.
• Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Evaluates the full complement of team talent, identifies gaps, and implements action plans to fill gaps and drive achievement of goals.
• Acquires resources needed to reach individual and team goals.
• Prioritizes team morale and productivity, and celebrates team accomplishments.
• Promotes collaboration among team members. Encourages others to cooperate and coordinate efforts.
• Develop a diverse talent pipeline for a team, including onboarding, and evaluates talent gaps and opportunities.
• Creates the culture of their team by building team rituals, processes and practices that build strong team bonds and an open trusting environment where diverse viewpoints, opinions, approaches, candid conversations and critiques can happen.
• Coordinates and contributes to process and practice that drives cross-functional operational excellence.
• Actively builds space for feedback and contributions from the team to improve UX culture and practice.

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