Tripadvisor
Senior Director of Machine Learning (Experiences)
London, Oxford, Poland, Krakow . Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will lead a unified machine learning organization using a hub-and-spoke model. You will oversee personalization, recommendation, ranking, and generative AI strategies to drive growth for the Experiences division.
What you will do
- Build and lead a unified ML organization using a hub-and-spoke model
- Own the personalization strategy for recommendation, ranking, and search-relevance systems
- Lead data science and experimentation including predictive modeling and causal inference
- Shape the generative-AI direction including LLMs and conversational trip planning
- Grow, develop, and retain the team through management and technical tracks
- Own production ML health including deployment, retraining, monitoring, and governance
- Partner across the company to translate commercial strategy into an ML roadmap
Required qualifications
- Substantial experience in machine learning
- Significant experience leading managers and senior technical teams in a complex, scaled organisation
- Track record of shipping production machine learning at scale to large consumer traffic
- Experience building, scaling, or restructuring an ML or data-science organization
- Ability to operate as an executive peer
- Technical depth in modern ML, experimentation, and MLOps
- Strong grounding in experimentation and statistics
- MS or PhD in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related), or equivalent depth of applied experience
- Excellent communication
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages including base salary and annual bonuses
- Work your way flexibility
- Flexible schedule
- Donation matching
- Tuition assistance
- Lifestyle benefit
- Travel perks
- Employee assistance program
- Health benefits
- Generous referral scheme
About the company
The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. Tripadvisor Experiences is a division of Tripadvisor and is the leading marketplace for travel experiences.