Senior Team Leader, Rocket Money
Machine Learning Engineering
$220-250k
+ Bonus
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
Open for applications
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$220-250k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people to live their best financial lives.
Role
Who you are
- You have a build-first mentality. You lead teams to create scalable ML systems that accelerate product delivery cycles across the company
- You have deep expertise in machine learning and a strong understanding of modern ML systems architecture, especially in deploying LLMs and generative AI in production environments
- You have 3+ years of experience managing data scientists and ML engineers. You've successfully led teams in delivering user-facing AI and ML products and know how to cultivate a culture of technical excellence alongside strong product delivery
- You're experienced in implementing and scaling ML systems, with particular focus on real-time inference, model monitoring, and maintaining high-quality production ML services
- You have hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered features in production, including prompt engineering, context management, and responsible AI practices
- You can tailor your management style to suit your employees, identifying where some people might succeed with a more hands-off approach than others
- You excel at stakeholder management and can build effective relationships across the organization. You self-organize a peer group to gain feedback
- Expert experience in experimentation is a must - you'll guide systematic approaches to ML feature testing, implementation, and assessment across the company
- You care about products, not publications. You guide your team to focus on shipping valuable features rather than pursuing perfect solutions
- You want to continue to grow and learn. You are excited by hard problems and big challenges
- Experience in fintech, banking, or finance is a plus
What the job involves
- The Rocket Money Data Science and Machine Learning team builds AI-powered experiences that help our members achieve their financial goals.
- Our team consists of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers who work within an embedded organizational structure to deliver user-facing ML products, drive experimentation, and build scalable AI systems.
- Team members collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to transform innovative ideas into production features
- We're growing our team and are looking for a Senior Team Leader who can build and nurture a high-performing data science and machine learning team while fostering an environment of technical excellence, continuous learning, and impactful product delivery
- Lead and manage a team of 7-10 data scientists and ML engineers, creating processes that enable autonomous operation within cross-functional teams while maintaining high quality standards and accountability for ML product delivery
- Drive architectural strategy for AI/ML systems, with particular focus on implementing LLM-powered features and GenAI applications that enhance our product experience and customer engagement
- Guide the development and implementation of our next-generation chat experiences and AI-augmented analytics initiatives, ensuring successful delivery of conversational interfaces for both customer-facing and internal tools
- Direct the development of AI and ML-driven personalization systems across our product suite. Engender great developer experiences for AI and ML systems across our technology teams
- Foster strong working relationships across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure successful integration of AI and ML systems into our technology stack
- Create ambitious yet achievable quarterly roadmaps that advance our ML/AI infrastructure while delivering tangible value to users through enhanced product experiences
- Be accountable for making, measuring, and delivering on team commitments, particularly in experimentation and the systematic deployment of ML/AI features
- Invest in your team by building and supporting individualized growth and development plans aligned with our company’s organizational strategy, focusing on technical abilities and product shipping mindset
- Create impactful mentorship relationships that drive higher quality ML system design and implementation across teams
Our take
Managing finances has become increasingly difficult in the last couple of decades, despite access to online banking and other financial apps. The mass of subscriptions, standing orders and utility bills the average American is subject to ultimately makes it difficult to assess and manage their finances within one place.
Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) provides a mobile application that includes a variety of tools that aim to simplify financial management. Tools include an automatic subscription tracker which aims to increase transparency and simplicity for canceling unwanted subscriptions, in addition to monthly spending analytics and budgeting plans.
Whilst there seems to be an app for just about every form of financial management, Rocket Money has taken much-needed action by unifying everything into a single app. Whilst the company initially focused on financial management tools, it's now branched out to more direct financial tools such as utility bill comparison services, autopilot saving and paycheque advance loans.
Kirsty
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Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$45m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$17m
SERIES C
Total funding: $84m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Competitive Pay
- Matching 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Lunch daily
- Snacks & Coffee
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
Leadership
Haroon Mokhtarzada
(CEO & Chairman)They worked as CEO of Webs for 10 years, while studying at Harvard Law School, before working as VP at Vistaprint. They left this role in 2016 having co-founded Truebill (which later became Rocket Money) in November 2015.
Yahya Mokhtarzada
(CRO)Having studied at the University of Maryland, they worked in Business Development for Webs.com, SGN, appssavvy, and Nanigans for a combined 9 years. In November 2015 they co-founded Truebill.
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