Data Science Manager: Lead AI/ML & Responsible AI Teams

Jobtailor; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is hiring a Lead Data Science Leader to guide a team of data scientists in Amsterdam. You will set strategy, manage multiple projects, and drive production-ready AI solutions in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders.

You will champion responsible AI, foster scientific rigor, and translate business needs into actionable data science initiatives across Life Sciences and Corporate Markets.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, ML, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Significant experience in data science, ML, NLP, statistical modelling, or applied AI
• Experience leading technical teams directly
• Strong understanding of supervised/unsupervised learning, Gen AI, model evaluation and experimentation
• Experience with large structured and unstructured data
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders
• Experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, GenAI evaluation, or human-in-the-loop workflows
• Familiarity with production ML systems, MLOps, data pipelines, and model monitoring

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data scientists
• Set team strategy, priorities, and operating rhythm aligned with goals
• Plan, delegate, and manage resources across projects
• Foster scientific rigor, responsible AI, customer focus, and continuous improvement
• Define best practices for data science, experimentation, model evaluation, and production collaboration
• Lead ML methods across ML, NLP, neural networks, search, and knowledge graphs
• Oversee models and pipelines for classification, extraction, enrichment, prediction, and decision support
• Guide embeddings, LLMs, and GenAI evaluation
• Partner with engineering on scalable, production-ready solutions
• Define evaluation approaches for models, search systems, NLP pipelines, and AI features
• Promote responsible AI practices including fairness, explainability, privacy, and risk management
• Communicate evidence-based results and recommendations to stakeholders
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, ontologists, and business leads
• Translate needs into data science opportunities and measurable outcomes
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning and strategy

Skills

Data Science Leadership

Team Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Collaboration

Continuous Improvement

Education

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

Databricks

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain

LangGraph

Haystack

MLflow

Python

Job description

Jobtailor is hiring a Lead Data Science Leader to guide a team of data scientists in Amsterdam. You will set strategy, manage multiple projects, and drive production-ready AI solutions in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders.

You will champion responsible AI, foster scientific rigor, and translate business needs into actionable data science initiatives across Life Sciences and Corporate Markets.