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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

• The Director, AI & Insights is accountable for the performance and results of the AI and Insights team across Ford Credit. The role builds, leads and mentors a team of data scientists, machine learning (ML) engineers, generative AI experts, data analysts, and statisticians.

• The role oversees the understanding of business problems, and the subsequent solutioning and building AI workflows or models that solve the business pain point.

• The role overseas the workload distribution of the team, and addresses technical complexities and removes barriers for the team work effectively.

What you'll do...

• Builds & Runs Strong AI Teams: Builds, leads and mentors a team of data scientists, ML engineers, genAI experts, and data analysts; develops and executives’ strategies for attracting and retaining top AI talent.

• Perfects the Work Pipeline: Oversees distribution, scoping, and assignment of work, and monitors the volume of workload for emerging trends and guides the complex technical challenges.

• Ensures We’re Working on the Right Use Cases : Leads alignment of AI initiatives with business requirements, analyses datasets to determine suitable approaches that meet business needs and supports decision-making.

• Is a Technical Hands-On Lead: Leads teams’ efforts on prediction and extraction of meaningful trends, patterns, and recommendations from data using data science methodologies, including ML, predictive modeling, math, statistics, generative AI and other advanced analytics.

• Communicates with Clarity: Conveys technical concepts and capabilities to others at their level of expertise; can present clear and crisp articulations of problems that are being solved using AI.

• Maintains Cross-Collaboration: Regularly works with the MLOps, data engineering, platform, and enterprise architecture teams to make sure that AI models are compatible with the wider Ford Credit ecosystem.

• Makes Sure Everything is Monitored : Ensures that all models are appropriately monitored, robust, and available; when models no longer work, they are discovered quickly and remedy applied as soon as possible.

• Ensures Existing Models are Efficient and Accurate: Leads implementation of strategies for enhancing analysis efficiency, accuracy, and robustness in data science and machine learning projects that already exists.

• Takes a Long-Term View of Organization: Works with Head of AI to implement processes & practices that are conducive to ensuring Ford Credit enterprise goals are reached.

• Plans for Scalability: Works with the MLOps team to ensure scalability and security, in all aspects of model development, ensuring models can handle increasing volumes of data as the organization grows.

• Keeps us on Budget: Ensures that infrastructure costs and model costs are appropriate against the ROI being gained from the use case. Monitors cloud usage to ensure best practices are implemented to minimize cost.

• Develops the Team: Performs talent management responsibilities including performance management, disciplinary action, terminations, recruitment, pay decisions, and other personnel actions for the AI team.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, mathematics, econometrics, or any other related discipline that has heavy use of those concepts.

• Minimum 7 years of related work experience with a Doctorate degree, 10 years of related work experience with a Master’s degree, 12 years related work experience with a Bachelors Degree

• Involves occasional (defined as one-third or less of the time) lifting of no more than 10 pounds at a time. Work is performed primarily in a seated position and entails no significant stooping, standing, climbing, walking, etc. Many sedentary jobs require good use of the hands and fingers for repetitive hand-finger actions. Working conditions occur within low to moderate noise levels related to the use of standard office or classroom equipment.

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s Degree or Doctorate (preferred) in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, mathematics, econometrics, or any other related discipline that has heavy use of those concepts.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 5.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5NonHTHD

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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Requisition ID : 42497