Remote Senior Data Science Manager — AI Platform & Strategy

Smart Tech Skills LLC; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Smart Tech Skills LLC seeks a hands-on Manager of Data Science to lead a high-impact team developing shared agents, evaluation frameworks, and platform core capabilities for an agentic content platform. This player-coach role includes budget ownership, forecasting, planning, and resourcing, plus hands-on data science contributions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in data science/ML and 4+ years in leadership, with experience designing agentic RAG-based systems and translating technical concepts

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant data science, ML, or applied AI experience.
• 4+ years in leadership (direct or indirect).
• Advanced degree strongly preferred; equivalent practical experience considered.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic RAG-based systems with technical decision-making.
• Proficiency with Python and ML/LLM tooling.
• Experience building multi-agent or orchestrated LLM systems.
• Strong experience with structured and unstructured data at scale.
• Ability to design data pipelines and preparation workflows.
• Experience integrating ML into complex, multi-stage processing systems.
• Cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts to business partners.

Responsibilities

• Set vision and strategic AI priorities for the content platform as Data Science lead.
• Own delivery of content streams with quality and automation, while contributing reusable capabilities.
• Drive applied research with production paths focused on latency and reliability.
• Build and scale evaluation science capabilities, including offline evaluation pipelines.
• Collaborate with other Data Science teams to maximize component reuse.
• Define and execute the AI roadmap and scalable agent-based workflows.
• Translate business problems into clear technical strategies and delivery plans.
• Design production-grade AI systems with accuracy, reliability, and human oversight.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to scale AI integration.
• Lead by example with hands-on technical contributions and prototypes.
• Establish Data Science standards for experimentation and monitoring.
• Build and mentor a high-performing data science team.
• Set goals, rhythms, and accountability for the team.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Design, and business.

Skills

Data Science Leadership

Agent-based AI

Python & ML tooling

RAG systems

Multi-agent orchestration

Cloud platforms

Business communication

Budgeting & resourcing

Education

Master's or PhD in Data Science/CS/Stats

Tools

LangChain/LangGraph

TensorFlow

PyTorch

CI/CD

Model serving tools

Job description

Smart Tech Skills LLC seeks a hands-on Manager of Data Science to lead a high-impact team developing shared agents, evaluation frameworks, and platform core capabilities for an agentic content platform. This player-coach role includes budget ownership, forecasting, planning, and resourcing, plus hands-on data science contributions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in data science/ML and 4+ years in leadership, with experience designing agentic RAG-based systems and translating technical concepts