Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI

Outreach is looking for a Director of Applied Science and Engineering to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Outreach's Knowledge Graph and contextual AI capabilities.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field with a focus on knowledge representation and reasoning, graph neural networks, information extraction, recommender systems or conversational AI and dialogue systems
• 10+ years of experience in applied science or machine learning, with at least 3 years in a people leadership role managing teams of 5+ applied scientists or research engineers
• Demonstrated track record of building and shipping knowledge graph, NLP, or graph ML systems at production scale
• Deep expertise in at least three of: knowledge graph construction, entity resolution, information extraction, graph neural networks, temporal reasoning, representation learning, or recommender systems
• Strong engineering fundamentals and experience recruiting, developing, and retaining top applied science talent

Benefits

• Full-time employment
• Remote work
• Executive visibility and direct exposure to top leadership
• Opportunity to shape the organizational structure of applied science at Outreach
• World-class team and culture that values scientific rigor, engineering excellence, and intellectual honesty