Senior Director, AI

We envision a world where anyone can write without limits. Together, our companies—QuillBot, Scribbr, and LanguageTool—are on a mission to make written communication in any language better and more efficient. If you're passionate about using technology to help people connect across cultures, join us.

Responsibilities

• Direct AI managers who lead teams of research engineers and computational linguists to design and build state-of-the-art solutions in natural language technologies, including paraphrasing, grammar checking, proofreading, summarization, and translation.
• Devise and deliver novel solutions that improve users' lives, drive the business forward, and transform the broader landscape of multilingual language products.
• Invent novel methods that produce transformative outcomes, i.e., that cause a significant change in how users engage with the product or brand, how the team executes, or how the organization functions.
• Create and maintain a culture of uncompromising pursuit of quality in AI solutions.
• Identify gaps in team knowledge/practices and provide new processes and ideas to help AI managers solve novel research problems with greater impact and efficiency.
• Collaborate with research and product leadership to form and flesh out the roadmap. Own the AI team's goals and roadmap on a quarterly and annual basis. Distribute initiatives to teams to accomplish goals.
• Shape multilingual language products through impactful decision making about the design and construction of natural language technologies.
• Mentor team members to increase management skills, product knowledge, and technical domain expertise.
  
  

Ideal Candidate

• PhD in computer science, natural language processing, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Record of publications at top venues in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning on par with that of a tenured professor at an R1 university, or equivalent evidence of transformative impact on relevant fields.
• 8+ years of experience as a people manager of teams developing natural language processing technology.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and optimizing solutions for natural language applications.
• Ability to function as a principal-level AI individual contributor.
• Passion for writing, reading, and research. Deep understanding of writing and academic writing in particular.
• Strong command of the English language.
• Preferred: expertise in one or more of the following languages: German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese.
  
  

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary
• Equity/stock options
• Annual performance bonus
• Health insurance coverage (7 Lacs for self and family)
• Life Insurance 3X the CTC
• Accidental Insurance 3X the CTC
  
  

Learning

• Learning and Development Policy Reimbursement of Courses
  
  

Flexibility

• Privilege Leave
• Paid Leaves
• Casual Leaves
• Mandatory Leaves
• Special Leaves
• Flexible Holiday
• Menstrual Leaves
• Maternity Leaves & Flexible Paternity Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Marriage Leave
  
  

Work From Home

• Workstation Setup Reimbursement
• Internet Bill Reimbursement
• Remote-friendly culture
  
  

Fun

• Quarterly team and city meetings
• Annual Workations
  
  

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