Director, Applied AI
Core
Lead the team building the intelligence for ZoomInfo AI agents, owning the B2B data graph strategy from training data through model serving.
Role type
Director, Applied AI (hands-on IC with team leadership)
Builds
B2B data graph, agent memory systems, production ML models, and agentic systems
Domain
B2B data intelligence, AI agents, machine learning, LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
production ML system architecture, hiring senior ML engineers, hands-on coding and prototyping, classical ML and data science, LLM and agentic systems, inference cost and latency optimization, executive communication
Preferred skills
entrepreneurial experience, propensity modeling/ranking/retrieval/clustering/entity resolution, web-scale language processing, post-training and distillation, AI governance and safety practices
Technologies
classical machine learning, LLMs, agentic coding tools, SQL
Responsibilities
Extend B2B data graph to the long tail, lead agent memory development, choose optimal methods (ML/LLM/code) based on evidence, define model evaluation standards, own inference cost/latency/capacity, hire and develop ML engineers, represent team to executives, set standards for agentic coding tools
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with team leadership
