Manager, AI Solutions
Axial Search · New York, NY · 5 days ago
HybridEngineering$200k–$390k/yrFull-time
Job Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of AI architecture strategies that align technical feasibility with business objectives, from discovery through production deployment
- Lead and mentor a team of AI/ML engineers, architects, and data specialists—setting technical direction, unblocking work, and developing talent
- Partner with product, engineering, and business leadership to identify high-impact AI use cases, scope feasibility, and drive roadmap prioritization
- Build and maintain AI systems architecture—including model pipelines, inference infrastructure, monitoring, and governance frameworks—ensuring scalability and reliability
- Drive adoption of AI best practices across teams: experimentation discipline, model evaluation rigor, responsible AI principles, and MLOps maturity
- Manage technical debt and infrastructure decisions that balance speed-to-market with long-term system health and cost efficiency
- Communicate architecture trade-offs, technical risk, and capability roadmaps to non-technical stakeholders and executive sponsors
Candidate Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems, with 2+ years leading technical teams or owning major architectural decisions
- Deep technical fluency across the modern ML stack: model training and evaluation, feature engineering, inference serving, monitoring, and deployment infrastructure
- Proven ability to scope AI problems, run experiments rigorously, and communicate when and why AI is or isn't the right tool
- Track record of mentoring engineers, building high-performing teams, and influencing technical strategy across functions
- Comfort working in ambiguity, translating business problems into technical requirements, and driving decisions under incomplete information