Director of AI & Data Science, LRN
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Ethics & compliance program solutions
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Ethics & compliance program solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To inspire principled performance in organizations by helping them foster winning, ethical cultures.
Role
Who you are
- Proven ability to lead an applied AI team (player-coach) and drive delivery in a production environment
- Strong end-to-end ML/AI engineering judgment: data, modeling, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, iteration
- Practical experience with LLMs and modern AI tooling, including prompt/system design, retrieval (RAG), fine-tuning (when appropriate), and evaluation
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into tractable AI work with clear scope, milestones, and measurable outcomes
- Excellent communication: can explain complex trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience collaborating with Sales/Marketing on customer-facing AI positioning and solutioning
- PhD Plus 2 years industry experience/ Masters plus 4 years / bachelor's plus 6 years industry experience
- Field of study computer science or at least 3 years as a software developer
- Strong Python and modern ML stack (e.g., PyTorch / sklearn; data tooling; experimentation, vector databases)
- Understanding of modern software development and technology practices like git, APIs, containerization, CI/CD
- Experience with model evaluation, guardrails, observability
- Understanding of responsible AI: privacy, security, governance, and risk controls—especially in regulated/enterprise contexts
- Node.js and other backend development skills
- Experience in B2B SaaS, compliance/ethics, risk, or enterprise workflows
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLM features (quality, hallucination risk, latency/cost trade-offs)
- Prior customer-facing technical leadership (pre-sales, workshops, exec briefings)
What the job involves
- The Director of AI & Data Science will define and lead the company’s applied AI strategy, delivering scalable ML and LLM-powered solutions that drive measurable business impact
- This role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, Sales, and Marketing to translate customer needs into production-ready AI capabilities
- This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both technical depth and organizational influence
- You will coach and grow a small team, architect end-to-end AI systems, and help the company communicate AI value credibly and responsibly to customers and stakeholders
- Lead and grow the AI & DS function: manage/mentor a team of ML/data scientists and guide hiring, prioritization, and delivery
- Set technical strategy and standards: choose architecture, tooling, evaluation methods, and deployment patterns (MLOps / LLMOps), with a strong focus on reliability and risk management
- Build and ship AI capabilities: deliver end-to-end solutions (problem framing → data → modeling → evaluation → deployment → monitoring)
- Partner cross-functionally: collaborate with Product/Engineering to integrate AI into workflows and product experiences; align with Security/Privacy/Legal for responsible use
- Enable GTM: support Sales and Marketing with AI narratives, customer-facing discussions, solutioning, and (when needed) technical validation
- Measure impact: define success metrics, run experiments, and communicate trade-offs and results clearly to execs and stakeholders
Our take
LRN, a long-established provider of ethics and compliance solutions, is gaining renewed prominence as demand for ESG transparency continues to grow. As businesses face increasing pressure to demonstrate strong ethical standards, the need for effective compliance training and oversight has come into sharper focus.
The company delivers corporate training across areas such as diversity, ethics, and regulatory compliance, alongside data-driven analytics that help organizations assess and improve their performance. In 2022, LRN expanded its DE&I learning offering and received industry recognition for its corporate training videos, reflecting its ability to keep pace with evolving expectations.
With research consistently showing that ethical companies tend to outperform their peers, demand for LRN's service is likely to continue growing. As it expands its global footprint, the firm is increasingly positioned as a leader in ethics and compliance solutions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2000
$30m
EARLY VC
Jan 1994
$2m
ANGEL
Total funding: $32m
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Dov Seidman
(Founder & Chairman)Dov founded LRN in 1994 and has served as the Chairman since. He also founded The HOW Institute for Society in 2017 where he has served as the Executive Chairman since.
Bob Lemmond
(CEO)Prior to joining LRN in 2025, Bob co-founded Nexus Partners. He also served as Chief Commercial Officer at ISS and Clarivate and as CEO & President of Law & Business at Wolters Kluwer.
Matt Plass
(Chief Market Strategy Officer)Previously, Matt was the CEO and Chief Learning Officer at Interactive Services.
Bobby Jenkins
(CFO)Alongside LRN, Bobby is an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Previously, he was the CFO at Corporate Visions and Skillsoft.
Parijat Jauhari
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining LRN in 2021, Parijat was the VP of Product Management at Qu and a Senior VP/Head of Product Management & Analytics at Fishbowl.
Ty Francis MBE, CCEP
(Chief Advisory Officer)Alongside LRN, Ty is a Chair of the Board for Solent University Business and Law School as well as an Executive Producer/Governance, Ethics & Compliance Consultant at Western Edge Pictures. Previously, he was an Executive VP of Global Ethics, Compliance & Governance Programs at Ethisphere and VP of the New York Stock Exchange & Governance Services at NYSE.
Patsy Sciutto Doerr
(Chief People & Culture Officer)Patsy is also a Principal Consultant at Change for Social Good, a role she's held since 2022. Previously, she was a Relationship Manager at Eleven Canterbury and CPO at UDR.
Jean Brody
(CMO)Jean is also the CMO at Williams Lea, a role she's held since 2022. Previously she was a Marketing Director at CT TyMetrix and RR Donnelley.
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