VP II, AI Innovation – OCR (Level 21)

Role Overview

The VP of AI Innovation - OCR/Image Recognition, will lead innovation, development, and execution of next generation AI-driven OCR and Image Recognition capabilities. This role will focus on all aspects of Image processing, extraction of data and classification of data elements in the document. This person will be responsible for understanding industry/client needs, driving innovation, defining roadmap, prioritizing roadmap, leading development and ongoing innovation.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy and Leadership: Define and execute the vision of building and leveraging state-of-the-art OCR capabilities to solve complex business problems in Retail/Consumer space.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with various product groups to identify application and opportunities. Partner with other Product and Engineering teams to develop and integrate these capabilities.

• Innovation: Drive innovation to drive new capabilities and continue to improve KPIs of existing capabilities (speed, cost, accuracy, coverage).

• Technology and scale: Lead the development of capabilities that can execute at large scale (millions of documents everyday with response in seconds), high accuracy and precision.

• Compliance & Ethics: Ensure all extraction activities adhere to legal and ethical standards

• Team Building: Recruit and lead a specialized team focused in this area

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the relevant field

• Masters or higher education in the relevant field

• Experience in Retail, Consumer and/or related industry is required

• Extensive expertise in OCR and Image processing technologies

• Deep expertise in science/algorithms used for extraction and classification of data at scale

• Demonstrated experience developing high throughput scalable systems with high degree of accuracy and precision

• Strong problem-solving skills, innovation driven, customer obsessed – entrepreneurial attitude and behavior

• Excellent oral and written communications skills

• Experience working with global distributed teams