General Manager, Data Science
Core
Strategic leadership role owning data science, analytics, ML, and AI strategy and execution for Accounting & Bookkeeping, Small Business, and AI products, scaling the function from ~12 to ~30 people.
Role type
Senior IC General Manager, Data Science (Strategic Leadership)
Builds
AI-powered customer experiences (Jax chatbot, agentic workflows), enterprise metrics stack, experimentation strategy, and data architecture.
Domain
SaaS / Small Business / AI & Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic product vision, team scaling and organizational design, AI-native leadership, executive partnership and C-suite advisory, AI governance and model risk management, cross-functional stakeholder management, global hiring and talent development, behavioral and technical standards setting, risk identification and process design.
Preferred skills
Experience with frontier-model platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), SaaS or small business domain expertise, public thought leadership or open-source contributions in data/AI.
Technologies
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, frontier-model platforms
Responsibilities
Translate company objectives into strategic sub-objectives for analytics, ML, and AI; lead and mentor a growing data science team; design team structures for multi-location operations; act as primary data partner to Product & Technology; represent data science in executive forums; own AI governance and experimentation integrity; drive cultural and technical standards; identify strategic risks and design robust processes.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership scope
