Director of Generative AI Sciences, Generative AI Solutions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI solutions team is responsible for growing OCI’s Generative AI services and platform. Our goal is to enable customers to apply AI to solve their particular business problems with Oracle’s assistance and expertise in Generative AI. In this role, you will have an opportunity to work with teams of data scientists and developers from major Fortune 100 companies to deliver solutions that delights our customers with the confidence that their data are safe and protected. 

Your Opportunity

As a sciences director, you will work closely with our strategic customers (internal and external), helping them on utilizing Generative AI products for their business scenarios. You will lead and inspire a team of scientists specialized in Language, Vision, and Speech models. In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the vision of Generative AI products by identifying gaps and help address them quickly to ensure our customers get the best of Oracle’s Generative AI capabilities. You will recruit, allocate resources, set priorities, and manage schedules to meet customers’ requirements.

We’re looking for a person who will bring a passion for innovative products, strong collaboration skills and the ability to work closely with both customers and internal teams. You’ll have the ability to be hands-on when needed, as well as be adept at influencing multiple stakeholders without direct authority to get things done efficiently. Most importantly – we believe in a people-first approach. Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, with different professional and life experiences, who support each other to build things the right way and enjoy ourselves while doing it.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of data scientists design and build world-class Generative AI solutions.  
• Lead a team of data scientists build the necessary tooling for data acquisition, data cleaning, data augmentation, model training, and visualization. 
• Lead a team of data scientists research, evaluate, and implement various foundation models and solution techniques from research papers, partners, and other public internet resources. 
• Build a high performing data science team by hiring and nurturing top talents.
• Work closely with senior management and architects
• Collaborate with engineering and product team to develop production code for serving Generative AI solutions at scale to internal and external customers.

About You

• You are a seasoned science manager with a proven track record of delivering high-impact ML/Deep Learning solutions.
• You have substantial knowledge and experience with large language models and, have experience delivering scalable solutions with speech, vision, and language AI models.
• You have been a data scientist yourself and understand how to drive quality and data science excellence 
• You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
• You understand the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity, and constantly striving for excellence both from yourself and your team
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have a strong sense of ownership to drive the development of new projects and features to completion
• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions with peers/superiors
• You are an expert at recruiting, interviewing, and hiring in a competitive environment and have the proven ability to motivate, align, and manage high performing, happy and empowered scientists
• You always use data to drive decisions within your organization

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning and equivalent
• 10+ years of experience applying machine learning for solving real-world problems in the industry
• 5+ years of experience applying deep learning, language, speech, and vision models
• 3+ years of experience managing and leading the data science team. 
• An experienced and credible expert in language models and deep learning.
• A proven and enthusiastic, high-energy, motivating leader who is visibly passionate and is capable of inspiring and galvanizing an organization
• A balance of strategic and tactical skills, with a high level of intellectual agility and capacity for original thought
• An exceptional communicator who can write, present and effectively adjust messages to meet individual audiences and organizations
• Experience in the ability to manage a team during transformational change
• A proven ability to navigate and effectively collaborate with other departments and resources in large complex environments
• Ability to work in a collabor