Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Syndio
$210-245k
Offers equity
Pay transparency compliance solutions
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Pay transparency compliance solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-245k
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help companies eradicate workplace inequities and ensure every employee is valued for who they are and what they contribute to their company's' success.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven hands-on experience as an applied AI or ML engineer, with a successful track record of innovative features deployed at scale
- You have 4+ years of experience managing a high-performing engineering team
- You thrive on ambiguity and find clarity through iteration, experimentation, and collaboration
- You stay current with advances in the AI/ML landscape and translate them into pragmatic value for your team and customers
- You excel in a collaborative environment, supported by a strong team of design and engineering resources
- You are ready to work with teams across the organization to ensure the needs of everyone are met as well as can be
- Proven excellent communication skills that enable you to interface with both technical and non-technical teams
- You bring proven problem-solving and critical thinking skills to our dynamic startup environment
- You have experience in enterprise technology applications architecture, design, development, and maintenance, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security
- You are data-driven, and able to make difficult prioritization decisions when needed
- You are passionate about our mission to close pay gaps and create fairness in the workplace
- Proven experience with B2B-focused solution and architecture design
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Director of Applied AI to lead our Applied AI team of combined Backend and Machine Learning engineers, at a pivotal moment in our evolution
- In this role, you’ll ship AI systems to production: building agents, deploying models, and integrating LLMs to help customers and internal users make faster, fairer, and more confident decisions
- You’ll guide a team of high-performing engineers while also playing a key role in shaping the technical architecture of our platform
- You will join Syndio at an exciting moment, as we build our vision of Intelligent Pay, an AI native compensation recommendation platform
- Your guidance and collaboration in building scalable software engineering solutions for our product suite will have a meaningful impact in helping companies achieve fairness in the workplace
- Lead delivery of end-to-end AI systems: from rapid prototyping to production deployment
- Use best in class cutting edge AI tools as part of your job, including Cursor, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Gemini
- Work on cutting edge AI applications building innovative solutions for our customers and internal teams
- Manage a team of highly skilled backend and ML engineers - creating a supportive work environment by coaching the team and paving the way for collective success
- Model technical leadership to the engineers and be responsible for technical decisions made on your team
- Contribute to and guide the engineering organization’s best practices, such as process improvements and communication
- Collaborate across the entire engineering organization (backend, frontend, product,, and site reliability) to ensure projects meet all team requirements
- Collaborate on the design and development of innovative features and services delivered to Syndio’s customers
- Create a culture of diversity and belonging while also leading the hiring processes for new ML engineers
- Help shape the future of fair pay through AI—at a moment of high growth
- Our tech stack: Golang and Python on the backend, Typescript written in React on the Frontend, running Kubernetes on GCP. Gemini is our LLM
- Within 1 month, you’ll be working on projects in partnership with data science, product and engineering, understand the strengths and weaknesses of our current engineering team and understand our strategy for the intelligent pay product vision
- Within 3 months, you’ll be shipping value to customers, mentoring team members, and helping define engineering processes and MLOps best practices
- Within 6 months, you’ll be celebrating with the team as we ship new, high-impact AI capabilities—and be shaping our roadmap for what’s next in Intelligent Pay and beyond
Application process
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- 30 Minute interview with our Sr. Director of Data Science
- A 45 minute technical interview with one member from our Data Science team and one member from our ML team
- A 30 minute interview with our Sr. VP of Engineering
Our take
As companies are making greater commitments to paying and treating their employees more equitably, Syndio offers them an analytics driven platform that enables them to more easily measure, achieve, and maintain this. The startup counts a number of Fortune 500 companies amongst its customers, including American Airlines, Salesforce, and Nordstrom.
Workplace equity is about much more than just boosting brand reputation. Recruitment and staff retention, company culture, and business performance have all been shown to improve with better DE&I results. Therefore, the draw of Syndio’s offering is quite clear - enabling businesses to convert verbal promises into measurable, provable outcomes.
Syndio’s growth since its 2016 launch has been impressive, with funding secured in 2022 allowing it to ramp up operations and scaling efforts. It also joined the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services Marketplace, becoming a trusted third-party service provider for listed companies - which gives it a chance to serve yet more impressive clients.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.8m
Company benefits
- Best medical plans on the market (90% employee coverage, 50% dependents)
- Life & Disability paid by the company
- Stock options
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401(k) option
- Access to Talkspace online therapy
Leadership
Maria Colacurcio
(CEO)Co-founded and was VP of Marketing at digital work collaboration platform Smartsheet. Co-founded and is a Board Member at Fair Pay Workplace. Has worked in managerial and directorial roles at Starbucks and Microsoft, and founded educators' professional development foundation Ideas Ignited.
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