Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Open Select is a Series B fintech building fraud detection models for financial institutions. They are seeking a Head of Machine Learning to lead a data science team, oversee the model lifecycle, and drive product innovation through research and hands-on mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Grow a team of 2 to 3 data scientists into a team of 5 to 6, and raise the bar with every hire
• Mentor with depth by getting hands-on with your team's work, not from arm's length
• Lead planning and set priorities across product, engineering, and leadership
• Own the full model lifecycle, from data acquisition through production monitoring
• Research emerging fraud patterns and turn what you find into new product directions
• Write production-ready code that powers real-time partner decisions
• Design and present analyses that inform product, risk, marketing, and sales

Skills

• Built and deployed models that were core to a company's business
• Led a data science or applied ML team for at least 4 years
• People who worked for you would join you again
• Write production code yourself
• Pass a rigorous technical assessment without needing to prepare for it
• Come from fintech, cybersecurity, health tech, or insurance
• Think from first principles about ambiguous problems and drive them to deployment without being told how
• Explain complex technical work clearly to senior non-technical stakeholders
• Change their minds
• Experience with identity verification
• Experience with graph databases
• Experience with feature stores

Benefits

• Competitive equity
• Remote-friendly

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