Director of Engineering, Model Development

Who We Are

At Domino Data Lab, we have an ambitious vision for data science. Our platform helps data science teams accelerate research, increase collaboration, and rapidly deploy predictive models. Our customers are the most sophisticated analytical organizations in the world, including companies like Bristol Myers Squibb, Allstate, Bayer, and Red Hat. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Bloomberg Beta, and Zetta Venture Partners, we are at the epicenter of the data science revolution, helping companies develop the next breakthrough in medicine, build better cars, or recommend the best song play next.

What we are building

The Model Develop and Train teams  at Domino are building feature/function in the Domino platform that enables data scientists to both quickly and efficiently develop their models, and train them through experimentation with training data sets. The mission of the team is to increase the velocity of the end-to-end model development process by providing an environment of flexible and open tools, and access to an integrated platform of compute resources for model training. In this role you will oversee teams that are expanding the features of the model development environment, building hybrid computing capabilities, optimizing the resilience and scalability of core services, and continuing to improve and evolve the architecture of the Domino platform.

What your impact will be

In your first year your teams will have:

• Improved their ability to plan and deliver against their key objectives
• Effectively understand their capacity develop staffing plans to fill key capacity and skill gaps
• Adopted a more agile mindset that has resulted in a increased velocity
• Identified key areas inhibiting developer efficiency and instituted new practices to address the friction points.
• Teams have internalized “owning their quality” and have shifted more testing earlier in the development lifecycle
• Team-owned components are optimized, scalable, and rock solid. Teams are continuing to move to a service-oriented architecture

What We Look For in This Role

• 5+ years experience managing multiple teams and a team of first line managers
• Strong technical background; forms opinions on architectural direction
• Ability to effectively recruit and scale teams based on capacity and skill needs. 
• Expertise defining and implement architectural principles and methodologies
• An Agile mindset, with opinions on how to shift from waterfall tendencies to Agile methodologies 
• Track record of successfully articulating and executing on an organization vision and strategy in a way that connects with the company strategy and inspires individuals at all levels

What We Value

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply
• We value a growth mindset. High-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and see the opportunities for success
• We believe in individuals who seek truth and speak the truth and can be their whole selves at work. 
• We value all of you that believe improving is always possible At Domino Everything is a work in progress – we can do better at everything. 
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.