AI Data Science Manager - GenAI & Product Impact

Showcify, Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

talabat seeks a Manager, Data Scientist - AI to lead a team delivering ML and generative AI systems powering product and business decisions. You will own roadmap, drive scalable AI initiatives, and ensure world‑class ML practices across data, models, and production monitoring.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams, advocate harness‑first thinking, and mentor talent while delivering measurable business value through Net AI Value Delivered.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in ML, GenAI, DL, NLP, recommendations, and data mining.
• Hands-on with ML/GenAI frameworks: Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Transformers, LLM fine‑tuning.
• Proficiency with OpenAI SDK and major LLM APIs for production AI systems.
• Experience with LangGraph for multi-step agentic workflows and orchestration.
• Experience with Hugging Face for model sourcing, fine‑tuning, deployment.
• Knowledge of embeddings, vector databases, and RAG pipelines for semantic search.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ML system design.
• Proven experience shipping ML models to production; familiarity with MLOps.
• Data pipelines and feature engineering, e.g., Airflow.
• SQL and Python excellence; good stats, experiment design, causality.
• Familiar with agentic system design and observability; GCP/BigQuery a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and retain a data science/ML team with high technical standards.
• Own the technical roadmap across data enrichment, automations, self-serve tooling, and agentic features.
• Champion harness-first thinking; establish evaluation pipelines and LLM observability.
• Oversee full ML lifecycle: data, feature eng, training, deployment, monitoring.
• Drive adoption of LLMs and GenAI for data enrichment and automated decisioning at scale.
• Design and analyze experiments to measure impact; elevate ML/engineering standards.
• Partner with product managers and engineers to translate business problems into ML solutions.

Skills

ML expertise

GenAI

NLP

LLM frameworks

OpenAI SDK

LangGraph

Hugging Face

embeddings

vector search

SQL

Python

MLOps

Airflow

BigQuery

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering/CS

Postgraduate degree a plus

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Transformers

LLM tooling

GCP

Job description

talabat seeks a Manager, Data Scientist - AI to lead a team delivering ML and generative AI systems powering product and business decisions. You will own roadmap, drive scalable AI initiatives, and ensure world‑class ML practices across data, models, and production monitoring.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams, advocate harness‑first thinking, and mentor talent while delivering measurable business value through Net AI Value Delivered.