[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 helping businesses successfully address their most complex and critical challenges. They are seeking an AI and Machine Learning Director who will be responsible for leading projects and client engagements, driving cost reductions, revenue growth, and profitability improvement.


Responsibilities

  • Leading projects and client engagements
  • Analyzing corporate performance
  • Driving cost reductions, revenue growth and profitability improvement
  • Creating ETL workflows, scripts, statistical models, and visualizations
  • Design, build, test, execution, and support of the data migration, cleansing, wrangling
  • Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
  • Executing machine learning projects using state-of-the-art methods
  • Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
  • Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
  • Collecting data from a wide variety of corporate databases
  • Parsing data out of poorly structured XML and invalid HTML documents
  • Using regular expressions to extract information from un-structured text documents
  • Dealing with missing data through multiple-imputation or the use of advanced models
  • Automating boring tasks with scripts
  • Building effective, reliable, and robust ETL processes that govern the data ingestion flow
  • Designing database models, consistent table structures, and advanced dimensional schemas
  • Applying modeling approaches, business intelligence patterns, and data management techniques
  • Demonstrating advanced SQL skills to work with extensive amounts of data
  • Reviewing and analyzing legacy code/scripts to understand data processing logic and business rules
  • Applying statistical learning languages to build predictive models
  • Using interactive data visualization tools to present results in a compelling manner
  • Presenting 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

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 64 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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