ML Practice leader (Poland) (offline)

Provectus helps companies adopt AI to transform the ways they operate, compete, and drive value.
The focus of the company is on building ML Infrastructure to drive end-to-end AI transformations, assisting businesses in adopting the right AI use cases, and scaling their AI initiatives organization-wide in such industries as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & CPG, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, and Internet businesses.
The role of a Practice Leader is the most important for the company’s Machine Learning practice, because it is not only about managing people, but also requires things to be done. A Practice Leader must have sufficient technical experience to maintain and demonstrate the best market practices while keeping abreast of the latest technologies.

Requirements:
- Practical experience with high-performance programming language.
- Strong understanding of Python patterns & best practices.
- Experience in productionizing of several models (different types).
- Strong understanding of ML project lifecycle.
- Practical experience with creating training datasets involving human annotators.
- Practical experience with variety of datasources (OLTP, OLAP, DataLake, Streaming).
- Practical experience Spark, Dask or similar (distributed data processing).
- Ability to explain every design choice one makes.
- Experience with writing DeepLearning models from scratch.
- Practical experience with model post-production & maintenance: model and data monitoring, retraining automation, etc.
- Ability to make reusable components of ML pipelines.
- Ability to explain decisions, status and roadmap to non-technical customer representatives .
- Experience in the following areas: NLP, CV, forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning.
- Practical experience with /AWS/other cloud/open source alternatives/ MLOps platforms, frameworks and libraries.
- Experience in team/department leadership.
- Relationship/team building. Leadership requires building and maintaining a solid and collaborative team of individuals working toward the same goal.
- Ability to teach and mentor. The role assumes providing employees with their career path and helping them achieve goals.
- Diplomatic skills. It means more than just "communication skills" and includes ethics, empathy, compassion, and the ability to resolve conflicts.
- Calmness. People are complicated, and it is required to be ready for any objectives or misunderstandings.

Will be a plus:
- Public speaking experience.


Responsibilities:
- Build effective teams.
- Participate in meetups, conferences, and build community.
- Share best practices and culture with the team.
- Mentor engineers, coach Team Leads, and encourage others to share knowledge.
- Have technical excellence and be an influencer in different teams/projects.
- Hire and onboard newcomers.
- Conduct performance reviews, 1-on-1 meetings.
- Identify and address team gaps in knowledge.
- Evaluate, improve and maintain processes.
- Сollaborate with other managers across the company.
- Communicate and follow the company's mission, vision, and values.

About Provectus

Provectus is the first AI consultancy and solutions provider, helping businesses achieve their objectives through AI.

Just imagine: ML for making factories safer for workers, preventing vision loss, and reducing the spread of disease, AI for curing eye diseases - it’s about the products we’ve already developed!

Who we are:
- We are a team of more than 600 people from Ukraine, USA, Canada, Costa Rica and Armenia.
- We are AWS Premier Consulting Partner with competencies in Data & Analytics, DevOps and Machine Learning.

What we do:
- We design and build AI solutions for industry-specific use cases, leveraging our expertise in data, machine learning, and cloud.
- We use Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Anomaly Detection technologies to empower our clients and drive innovation.
- We help businesses design, architect, migrate, or build cloud-native applications on AWS cloud.

How we work:
- At Provectus, everyone has a voice. Share your vision and ideas, utilize cutting-edge technologies that drive positive change on a global scale, contribute to open source projects, and realize your full potential!
- We are committed to developing tech communities in every market where we operate. Join our open knowledge sharing events, tech conferences, internships and educational programs.
- Work from wherever works for you. Provectus offers a hybrid work model for our employees. Work from home or at the office, or combine the two.

Be Heard. Be Empowered. Make a Difference.
Apply now!

Company website:
https://careers.provectus.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/provectus/