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You will lead a distributed team of data engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists delivering the recommendation engines, personalization systems, and data infrastructure that power products used by millions of players worldwide.\nThe ideal candidate is a collaborative leader with strong technical foundations and a proven track record of shipping end-to-end ML systems into production. You hold the bar high for what gets shipped: reliable pipelines, reproducible models, thoughtful feature engineering, and observability built in from the start. You know how to connect model performance to real business outcomes, and you bring a low-ego, people-first approach to cross-functional work.\nIf you're passionate about building the data and ML foundation that drives a growing global gaming platform, and want to shape how millions of players discover and engage with games, we'd love to hear from you.\nABOUT US\nXsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. 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