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OPEN JOB: Sr. Director, AI & Data Science
LOCATION: Wayzata, Minnesota (Minneapolis suburb)
***Relocation Assistance Available
SALARY: $190,000 to $300,000
BONUS ELIGIBLE
Our client is a leading American multinational food corporation – (180 billion revenue, 160,000 employees)
Ideal Candidate
Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
JASON DENMARK
Recruiting Manager
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
EMAIL: jdenmark@intermediagroup.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondenmark
Sr. Director, AI & Data Science - Minneapolis - to $300K + bonus
Wayzata, MNOPEN JOB: Sr. Director, AI & Data Science
LOCATION: Wayzata, Minnesota (Minneapolis suburb)
***Relocation Assistance Available
SALARY: $190,000 to $300,000
BONUS ELIGIBLE
Our client is a leading American multinational food corporation – (180 billion revenue, 160,000 employees)
Ideal Candidate
- Data Science, AI, Analytics + industry experience (Commercial, Sales, Agriculture)
- Experience being a strategic champion to drive AI at scale – success measured by compounding value
- The role requires collaboration with senior leaders to discuss AI and data science possibilities in business terms, modernize processes, and improve efficiency. The individual is expected to be a thought leader in data science and demonstrate emotional intelligence (EQ).
- The individual is accountable for leading a team of 16 data scientists to deliver data science solutions and models. They are transitioning from a regional role to a global team.
- The role will be located in Wayzata, MN (relocation available for candidates outside of Minnesota)
Job Purpose and Impact
- The Sr. Director of AI & Data Science is a visionary leader responsible for uncovering and enabling differentiated, high-impact applications of artificial intelligence across the business.
- This role partners closely with business leaders to identify innovative opportunities where AI can be a strategic differentiator, fueling competitive advantage and driving measurable outcomes.
- Beyond leading the development and deployment of AI solutions, this role plays a critical part in shaping how AI can transform decision-making, operations, and customer experiences.
- The Sr. Director also champions responsible AI practices, ensuring governance, risk mitigation, and ethical use of AI are embedded in every initiative.
- With a focus on business value, quality, and foresight, this role drives cross-functional collaboration to turn AI potential into sustainable impact.
Key Accountabilities
- Partners with business leaders to identify and accelerate AI opportunities through re-imagining how work is performed, embracing new and modern optimization techniques and changing the pace by which business value is realized.
- Translates complex AI capabilities into compelling business narratives, presenting to and influencing non-technical audiences and senior stakeholders to drive informed strategic decisions and foster confidence in AI-driven innovation.
- Provides strategic direction of product delivery to ensure scope, timeline and budget are prioritized and in compliance with related regulations and policies.
- Leads all aspects of ongoing efforts to guide and improve artificial intelligence and data science design & development practices, champions a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization and partners with key team members to drive artificial intelligence literacy and adoption.
- Develops and sponsors a community of practice of global data scientists to drive reuse, awareness and alignment to further the company's adoption and value through analytics solutions
- Presents and sells artificial intelligence solutions to non-technical audiences to influence strategic related decisions.
- Accountable for delivering measurable business outcomes from artificial intelligence investments, with responsibility for handling a significant budget and achieving defined value impact targets.
- Builds strategic partnerships and alliances with key business and industry entities to achieve organizational objectives and improve the value of investments.
- Manages team members to achieve organization goals, provides technical coaching & guidance, drives accountability for high performance and develops and sustains an environment for data scientists to thrive in an inclusive culture.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, math, engineering or related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of eight years of related work experience
- Experience in a minimum of two machine learning algorithms approaches: unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning
- Confirmed ability to present to non-technical audiences
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree or PhD in data science, computer science, math, engineering or related field
- Five years of experience leading teams
- Experience driving analytics adoption and mobilizing business transformation through AI adoption
- Broad expertise of business processes and functions
- Proficient in communicating to senior executives on opportunity and value, relating to the audience at hand
- Experience working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Experience working with distributed computing frameworks
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience in software development environment and code management or versioning
- Experience in agriculture
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
- Full MS WORD Resume
- Required compensation
- Contact information
- Availability
JASON DENMARK
Recruiting Manager
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
EMAIL: jdenmark@intermediagroup.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondenmark