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The business already has strong customer adoption, deep domain data and significant investment behind its next phase of product evolution.\nThis is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who has built production machine learning systems that make real decisions for customers. The company is moving beyond forecasting and recommendations into autonomous decisioning, where models increasingly power pricing, profit and operational outcomes directly inside the product.\nThe Opportunity\nYou will lead the data science function across applied science, analytics, ML platform and research. The mandate is to define and build the intelligence layer that moves the product from heuristic-based workflows into ML-powered, automated decision systems.\nThis is not a reporting or dashboarding leadership role. The right person will have owned models that sit inside the product, affect customer outcomes and carry real production accountability.\nWhat You’ll Own\nLead the strategy for production ML systems across pricing, forecasting, optimization and automated decisioning.\nBuild the roadmap for moving from human-reviewed recommendations toward trusted autonomous execution.\nLead and develop a multidisciplinary team across applied science, analytics, ML platform and research.\nPartner closely with Product, Engineering and executive leadership on product strategy, customer trust and commercialization.\nSet the scientific bar for experimentation, model evaluation, production monitoring and decision quality.\nShape how data science works with product teams, platform teams and senior stakeholders.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nSenior leadership experience across applied science, machine learning or production data science.\nA background building ML systems that make decisions for external customers, not just models that produce internal insights.\nStrong understanding of pricing, forecasting, optimization under uncertainty, marketplace systems, recommender systems or other decisioning environments.\nExperience owning the full model lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, retraining, serving and production failure management.\nAbility to lead PhD-level researchers and applied practitioners with real scientific credibility.\nStrong cross-functional influence across Product, Engineering, Analytics and executive stakeholders.\nExperience in hospitality is not required. Relevant backgrounds may include marketplaces, travel, advertising technology, ecommerce, delivery, financial technology, revenue management or large-scale optimization systems.\nTech Stack & Environment\nThis role sits in a production ML and applied science environment, not a traditional analytics function. The team is focused on pricing models, forecasting systems, ML platform capability, experimentation, model monitoring, agentic workflows and autonomous decisioning.\nYou should be comfortable discussing model serving, feature pipelines, retraining, drift, latency, performance metrics and the practical tradeoffs required to move ML from research into customer-facing production systems.\nWhy This Role\nThis is a rare opportunity to lead the scientific direction of a software business at a pivotal point in its evolution. The company has customers, data, executive support and a clear mandate to make AI central to the product.\nYou will not be maintaining a finished system. You will be setting the vision, building the team and shaping how intelligent automation becomes part of the core customer experience.\nAbout People In AI\nPeople In AI partners with high-growth AI and technology companies on specialist leadership and technical hiring. 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