Director of Data Science — AI Strategy & Impact

Career Launch; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Launch is conducting searches for Director of Data Science roles with partner employers in New York. We seek senior professionals who can build data and AI capabilities that improve products, decisions, and operating performance.

Ideal candidates combine ownership, executive communication, and a proven track record of measurable results, with ability to translate business priorities into scalable data products and production systems.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in machine learning, data science, data engineering, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Strong statistical, technical, and experimental judgment.
• Experience taking data or model work from discovery into monitored production use.
• Ability to connect technical work to revenue, customer, risk, or operating outcomes.
• Clear communication with executives, engineers, analysts, and nontechnical partners.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer without misrepresenting work status.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science strategy, experimentation, model quality, and a high-performing team.
• Set the technical direction for data, machine learning, or applied artificial intelligence initiatives.
• Turn business priorities into measurable models, data products, experiments, and production systems.
• Establish standards for data quality, evaluation, monitoring, privacy, and responsible model use.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business leaders on implementation and adoption.
• Communicate tradeoffs, limitations, and results clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Develop team capability through hiring, mentoring, documentation, and repeatable operating practices.

Skills

Senior ML/DS leadership

Production deployment

Business impact

Cross-functional communication

Data/AI strategy

Job description

Career Launch is conducting searches for Director of Data Science roles with partner employers in New York. We seek senior professionals who can build data and AI capabilities that improve products, decisions, and operating performance.

Ideal candidates combine ownership, executive communication, and a proven track record of measurable results, with ability to translate business priorities into scalable data products and production systems.