Head of Data & ML

The role

You will own the entire data function and lead a multi-disciplinary team of 8 data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analytics/data engineers. You will build discovery and search systems, scale the data and ML foundation, and make Posh AI-native.

What you will do

• Balance team leadership with hands-on technical work as a player-coach
• Translate product-oriented vision into a technical roadmap
• Perform hands-on analysis reviews, experiment critiques, model evaluations, and building prototypes
• Mentor senior and mid-level ICs
• Set a culture of rigor, urgency, and craft
• Turn product vision into focused data and ML bets
• Own the data narrative at All Hands, leadership reviews, and board updates
• Advise on ranking, recommendation, classification, and search algorithms
• Raise the rigor of experiment design, metric selection, and analysis
• Improve data infrastructure and AI/ML readiness

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in data
• 3+ years managing DS, ML, and/or DE teams at a high-growth consumer or marketplace company
• Former Staff-level IC
• Deep in either causal inference or recommendation/ranking systems, and credible in the other
• Bullish on AI-native data development
• Ability to turn ambiguous product goals into technical roadmaps

Nice to have

• Built a semantic layer or AI evaluation frameworks in production
• Entrepreneurial spirit and been part of a 0-1 founding team or a founder yourself
• Worked closely with a founder or CEO who is deeply involved in product, taste, and pace

Benefits

• Relocation bonuses are available for out-of-state candidates

About the company

Posh is a platform that enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests. The company has a team of 70, 10M+ users, and has facilitated over $400M in transactions.