Director, Engineering - AI

at Sprout Social, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Director, Engineering - Artificial Intelligence to join our engineering team. This leader will report to the Vice President, Engineering. The key focus of this role is to help build and execute our platform-wide AI strategy. As a member of Sprout's Engineering leadership team, this leader will also facilitate strong collaboration across the engineering, product management and product design organizations.

Why join Sprout's Engineering team?
Sprout empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today's digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30,000 brands, informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation, and fostering deeper, authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and engagement functionality, customer care solutions, influencer marketing, connected workflows, and business intelligence. throughout our products, enabling organizations to work smarter, unleash their creativity, and maximize the business impact of social media-that's where you come in!
With collaborative, cross-functional teams that span mobile, front-end, back-end, QA and site reliability engineering-our team is a place to sharpen your craft and solve hard problems with the smartest people in the industry. You'll get to work at a "tech-giant" scale, steering our engineering teams to make an impact on our company and our customers. As a leader of a dynamic, cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, you will not only drive the architecture, design, and roadmap of your team, but also inform how our products and services interconnect. Join other empathetic leaders on our Engineering Leadership team who help each other grow and learn while we support and guide our teams to deliver world-class products.

What you'll do
As a Director, you will be a key member of the AI leadership team and be responsible for building high-functioning, well-motivated teams of data scientists and engineers and steering them to iteratively deliver quality results.
You'll lead the engineering team building foundational AI/ML products that will be used across our entire product suite and customer base.
You will partner closely with the VP, Engineering and your leaders to chart the strategic growth of the current team, defining and building new teams and helping to steer architecture and product direction.
Relying on your experience in building and maintaining highly scalable, reliable, distributed AI products and leading data science teams, you'll lead teams to iteratively deliver quality software.
You will guide the team through complicated product and technical roadmaps, and partner with product management and design to align on the strategy for your teams and support its execution.
You'll grow your team of data scientists and engineers by example with effective feedback, coaching, and career development.

What you'll bring
We're looking for a collaborative, pragmatic, highly motivating Data Science leader to help our AI team succeed and invest in the right capabilities to improve our customer experience and impact through AI and machine learning. If you confidently lead teams to solve hard problems, push them to learn from and teach each other, and work across functions and teams to get your teams to deliver, we'd love to talk with you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
7+ years of experience developing... For full info follow application link.

Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer.  We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.    For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster  (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement.