Director of AI Dating Outcomes

• Strategy and Vision: Own the AI strategy for dating recommendations across the full journey from first candidate to last date. Build the frameworks to reason rigorously through ecosystem tradeoffs where a win for one cohort reshapes another and set a vision ambitious enough that the org wants to chase it.
• Cross-Functional and Industry Leadership: Partner closely with other product groups to integrate AI capabilities across the product and shape roadmap decisions you do not own. Communicate honestly with executive leadership on strategy tradeoffs and progress. Own budget and investment strategy for the area and represent Hinge externally through writing talks and community.
• Technical Leadership: Steer real-time personalized recommendation systems that reduce ratings per exchange and drive better matches. Bring Generative AI to dating outcomes in ways that are differentiated authentic and grounded in how people actually connect.
• Responsible AI: Hold the bar on scalability resilience and rigorous evaluation for both performance and bias.
• Team and Organizational Development: Structure and scale the team for both deep execution and long-horizon bets. Develop emerging leaders invest in succession across IC and leadership tracks and build a culture where rigor inclusion and performance reinforce one another.
• Execution Excellence: Drive predictable delivery balancing urgent risk response with long-term platform investments. Establish scalable operating rhythms for planning technical reviews and incident learnings.

• 10 or more years across data science applied ML and software engineering with 6 or more years in AI or engineering leadership defining strategy not just managing execution.
• A track record of leading real-time personalized recommendation systems in production including the relevance fairness and scale tradeoffs that carry real consequences.
• Demonstrated success scaling ML or AI teams and developing technical leaders who carry the work over years not a single launch.
• Deep technical fluency across ML RL Generative AI and MLOps with the communication skills and executive presence to represent AI strategy at the highest levels of the organization.
• A degree in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related quantitative field. A PhD is a plus not a requirement.

• Experience building AI systems in a two-sided or constrained marketplace where optimizing for one group shifts outcomes for another and the right answer is rarely obvious.
• A history of deploying Generative AI thoughtfully in user-facing experiences not as a trend to follow.
• External presence through publishing speaking or community contribution that reflects genuine intellectual engagement with the field.
• Prior work in a domain where user outcomes are high-stakes and hard to measure whether health education finance or something comparably consequential.

What We Do

In today’s digital world singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they’re not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. We want to create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate in-person connections. Relationships are at the core of everything we do. And not just the romantic kind. We can't accomplish really hard things alone - so we make great relationships the foundation of our teamwork. We believe these three core values are what it takes to build those great relationships: Authenticity we share - never hide - our words actions and intentions. Courage breakthroughs require a willingness to take risks and embrace lofty goals and tough challenges. Empathy we're all humans first. So we deeply consider the perspectives of others listen openly and speak with care.

Why Work With Us

We're mission-driven. While most apps think about boosting sessions and time on app we think strategically about meaningful end results (dates and relationships). We're culture-first. We believe in great people over process. Decisions are pushed to the front lines with feedback and coaching provided by our leaders.

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