Product Manager

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a global technology company that builds apps at the intersection of dating, social, and entertainment. The company's portfolio includes 70 social discovery platforms with a focus on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming. We actively support and invest in social discovery startups worldwide through our CVC fund.

More than 500 million people in 150 countries enjoy our products, and we strive to have ten times as many.

SDG invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 1200 professionals works all over the world.  Together, we are solving the prevalent problem of loneliness and shaping Social Life 3.0 — a new digital reality where people will be able to fulfil their needs for communication and attention from other people and artificial life forms.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are looking for a  Product Manager (NLP) for one of our investment products.

ML Team Objective: Increase the business performance of the product by improving the co-pilot system in user dialogues and the generative AI that underpins it. The responses suggested by the generative bot should be optimized for relevance and the likelihood of continuing the dialogue.

Your main tasks will be:

• Practical experience in applying basic NLP concepts (ngrams, skip-grams, tf-idf, etc.);
• Experience working in the field of NLP;
• Experience in developing components for dialogue systems.

We expect from you:

• Manage a team of ML engineers and improve the architecture of ML services to achieve set business goals;
• Create and integrate the necessary ML models into the overall system;
• Test and evaluate the created solutions;
• Optimize model training;
• Enhance the automated testing system and evaluation criteria for new models;
• Collect and prepare data necessary for model training.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of mathematical algorithms in machine learning, main types of models, and understanding of criteria for evaluating their performance;
• Practical experience in developing and deploying microservices;
• Proficiency in Python;
• Knowledge of machine learning libraries (Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy, Scipy, Sklearn);
• Familiarity with the PyTorch deep learning framework;
• Proficient in Linux/Unix OS and version control systems like Git;
• Ability to independently set up a pipeline;
• Understanding of ONNX principles;
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases;
• Experience in fine-tuning open-source models (Llama, Falcon, Vicuna, MPT, Zephyr, Mistral, etc.);
• Experience with GloVe, ELMo, RNN, CNN, Transformer, BERT;
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., Docker);
• Experience with deepspeed/Jax;
• Completed courses such as ODS, MIPT+Huawei.

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee, according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc. 

Sounds good? Join us now!