# Director, Data Science (AI)

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional Director, Data Science (AI) to lead the development and scaling of an organization that delivers innovative solutions for financial professionals. You will solve customer problems using a combination of classical machine learning and Generative AI technologies, delivering products that delight both external and internal customers.

The successful candidate will have outstanding communication skills, a demonstrated ability to influence company-wide leadership, indirect leadership experience, and deep technical depth. You will have a proven history of setting, organizing around, and delivering on a strategic vision, while also having the technical skills to help your teams navigate science and architectural tradeoffs.

Key responsibilities:

- Define, drive agreement on, and execute on a strategic data science vision

- Hire and develop diverse and impactful data science leaders and teams, providing technical oversight and standardized training

- Provide technical mentorship and support while letting your team make key decisions and learn from their mistakes

- Work with Product Managers and Software Engineering leaders to define and iteratively deliver roadmaps

- Build a collaborative team environment

Qualifications:

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent work experience

- At least 5 years shipping machine learning models, ideally over the full product development lifecycle

- At least 2 years leading data science/machine learning teams indirectly (i.e., managing managers)

## Skills

### Required
- Machine Learning
- Generative AI
- Data Science
- Leadership

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