[Remote] AI & Machine Learning Director

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlixPartners is a leading global consulting firm that specializes in solving complex and critical challenges for businesses. They are seeking an AI & Machine Learning Director who will lead projects and client engagements, focusing on performance improvement through advanced data analysis and machine learning techniques.


Responsibilities

  • Create ETL workflows, scripts, statistical models, and visualizations
  • Select features, build and optimize classifiers using machine learning techniques
  • Execute machine learning projects using state-of-the-art methods
  • Extend company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
  • Create automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
  • Experience with common data science toolkits, such as Python, PySpark, R
  • Collect data from a wide variety of corporate databases
  • Parse data out of poorly structured XML and invalid HTML documents
  • Use regular expressions to extract information from un-structured text documents
  • Deal with missing data through multiple-imputation or the use of advanced models
  • Automate boring tasks with scripts
  • Build effective, reliable, and robust ETL processes that govern the data ingestion flow
  • Design database models, consistent table structures, and advanced dimensional schemas
  • Apply modeling approaches, business intelligence patterns, and data management techniques
  • Understanding of cloud architectures
  • Demonstrate advanced SQL skills, such as CTEs and window functions
  • Review and analyze legacy code/scripts to understand data processing logic and business rules
  • Ability to apply statistical learning languages to build predictive models
  • Use interactive data visualization tools to present results in a compelling manner
  • Ability to tell a convincing story to C-level executives using visual charts and dashboards
  • Present complicated technical findings to a non-technical audience

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree with concentration in Computer Science, Engineering or another quantitative field
  • 10+ years of applicable professional experience
  • Ability to synthesize the requests received from team members at client sites
  • Desire to actively engage in geographically dispersed teams
  • Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
  • Knowledge of any of the following languages: Python, JavaScript, C#, or similar plus familiarity with at least one ETL tool (such as Alteryx, KNIME, SSIS, Pentaho, or DataStage)
  • Motivated to discover and learn new analytical techniques and software tools to improve the quality of our work
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Proficiency in other languages is a plus
  • Ability and willingness to work long hours and travel if necessary, to meet client demands
  • Ability to work full-time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
  • Willingness to work outside of normal U.S. business hours, and in particular as unique projects/needs arise
  • Must become familiar with, and promote and abide by, our Core Values as defined by the AlixPartners' Code of Conduct and foster an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
  • Excellence in at least one of the common data science toolkits, such as Python, PySpark, R
  • Understanding of cloud architectures. Some knowledge in Azure, AWS or GCP is desired
  • Demonstrate advanced SQL skills, such as CTEs and window functions, to work with extensive amounts of data at various aggregation levels
  • Distributed systems knowledge, specially of HDFS and the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Use interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI to present results in a compelling manner
  • Ability to tell a convincing story to C-level executives using visual charts and dashboards
  • Present complicated technical findings to a non-technical audience

Benefits

  • Health
  • Vision
  • Dental
  • Disability
  • 401K
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Identity theft protection
  • Mental wellness support
  • Generous paid leave policy including vacation/personal time starting at 7.34 hours per pay period
  • Sick time up to 80 hours annually
  • Parental leave
  • Twelve holidays

Company Overview

  • For more than forty years, AlixPartners has helped businesses around the world respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges – circumstances as diverse as urgent performance improvement, accelerated transformation, complex restructuring and risk mitigation. It was founded in 1981, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.alixpartners.com.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • AlixPartners has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 11 in 2026, 95 in 2025, 65 in 2024, 90 in 2023, 74 in 2022, 79 in 2021, 65 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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