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2024-49870 -

Director Data Science

Location(s): Greater San Diego & Los Angeles
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Overview

Do you want to lead a team that builds and deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that serve >200M people around the world?  Do you want to join a team whose mission is to power prosperity around the world with AI and Data?  Do you have the vision and drive to make strategic decisions, build cutting-edge technology, create a high performance culture, and deliver great results for customers around the world?

We are searching for a leader to lead Machine Learning & AI for our consumer and small business ecosystem of products and services.  Using your deep knowledge of Machine Learning & AI, you will translate complex business requirements into a bold strategy, galvanize a team around it, and deliver trajectory-changing results.   You will work in an energizing, growth mindset environment with disruptive thinkers and bring your whole self to work every day.

We are looking for a creative, passionate, enthusiastic and experienced leader who will collaborate with senior leaders, peers and stakeholders, to develop priorities, roadmaps, and deliver game-changing ML & AI products and capabilities. The leader should possess a sound understanding of, and practical experience, building large-scale data and AI products and platforms and a relentless focus on engineering and operational excellence. We embrace entrepreneurs and also those who come from established corporations.

Qualifications

Qualifications

 

    • Strong business acumen. Understands the business' internal and external landscape and thinks/acts strategically for all stakeholders
    • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across teams, functional groups
    • Experience in scaling world-class engineering teams
    • Experience working with one of the leading public clouds (AWS, Google, Azure)
    • Experience building and leading ML/AI teams
    • Deep knowledge of ML/AI applications and their use in driving customer benefits
    • Passion for being at the leading edge of technology with a minimum of 10+ years of hands-on development experience and experience as a manager of managers leading AI and data science teams
    • Very strong leadership skills, demonstrating the ability to create compelling visions, galvanize teams around the vision, execute with high operational rigor and deliver measurable results for customers.
    • Proven success in building, motivating and retaining teams of star players
    • A highly technical and result-oriented leader experienced in determining goals and matching those with customer requirements and product roadmaps
    • Adept at leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovative solutions, and fostering effective engineering teams

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

    • Technology Strategy - Creating the 3/1-year vision for TurboTax and our Growth and Engagement function by partnering with business stakeholders in engineering, product management, design, analytics, and customer success.  Organizes the team to deliver against top business priorities and proactively re-prioritize as shifts occur in the year.
    • Boundaryless Collaboration – Ideates, builds and tests new AI models and capabilities that deliver breakthrough growth, increased user adoption, and better together experiences.  Works with partners in Tech as well as BUs/FGs to prioritize what’s important, create roadmaps for delivery, and own the delivery of key AI experiences that deliver customer benefit as well as critical business KPIs.
    • Operational & Engineering Excellence - Result-oriented and deliver huge outcomes. Sets clear objectives and goals for the team and enables the team to deliver and use operating mechanisms to continually assess progress and improve. Establishes the data driven processes needed to achieve operational & engineering excellence. Foster Engineering culture within the team and across organizations
    • People Leadership - Lead and develop a diverse, high-performing organization of AI scientists and engineers as well as evangelize and democratize AI with partners.  Is a talent steward both within their organization as well as peer organizations. Nurture and retain senior talent including Machine Learning Engineering Managers, Data Science Managers and Architects, and acts as a coach across the organization. Develops and drives strategy to hire, develop and mobilize talent for the organization
    • Speed as a Habit – can operate in a fast-moving environment, make quick data driven customer backed  decisions and execute fiercely to deliver outcomes
    • Customer Obsession – is a staunch advocate for customers, both internal and external. Stays close to customer problems and solves for them with urgency
    • Demonstrated expertise in building and leading successful large scale AI models and platform capabilities for consumer products
    • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with the demonstrated ability to hire and retain diverse talent
    • Strong leadership and communication skills
    • PhD in a related field is highly desirable.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $218000-294500. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Conrad Intuit employee
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Natalie Intuit employee
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
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Troy Intuit employee
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Alexandria Intuit employee
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
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Emily Intuit employee
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
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"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

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Conrad De Peuter

Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning Futures Group

Conrad leverages tools like natural language processing and machine learning to help tax analysts and small business owners use TurboTax and QuickBooks more efficiently. For Conrad, Intuit is a great place to learn, grow, and take full ownership of your career path.

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