Senior Director, AI

About:QuillBot is an AI-powered writing platform on a mission to reimagine writing. QuillBot Brand provides over 59 million monthly active students, professionals, and educators with online writing and research tools to help them become more effective, productive, and confident. The QuillBot team was built on the idea that learning how to write and use that knowledge is empowering. They want to automate the more time-consuming parts of writing so that users can focus on their craft. Whether you're writing essays, social media posts, or emails, QuillBot has your back. It has an array of productivity-enhancing tools that are already changing the way the world writes. In the most recent series of events, CourseHero, a 15-year-old Ed-Tech unicorn based in California that is now known as Learneo, also acquired us.Responsibilities:Direct AI managers who lead teams of research engineers and computational linguists to design and build state-of-the-art solutions in natural language technologies, including paraphrasing, grammar checking, proofreading, summarization, and translation.Deliver solutions that change users' lives, drive business outcomes, and transform the industry of language products.Identify gaps in team knowledge/practices and contribute new processes and ideas to help AI managers solve novel research problems.Collaborate with product leadership to form and flesh out the product roadmap. Own the team's goals and roadmap on a quarterly and annual basis. Distribute initiatives to teams to accomplish goals.Shape multilingual language products through impactful decision making about the design and construction of natural language technologies. Deeply understand relevant products and their users in order to maximize the impact of the team's AI solutions.Create and maintain a culture of uncompromising pursuit of quality in AI solutions.Mentor AI managers and individual contributors to increase technical skills, product intuition, and the ability to impact users.Ideal Candidate:PhD in computer science, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, or a related field, or equivalent experience.Record of publications at top venues in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning on par with that of a tenured professor at an R1 university, or equivalent evidence of transformative impact on relevant fields.8+ years of experience as a people manager of teams building artificial intelligence technology.Extensive experience designing, implementing, and optimizing artificial intelligence solutions for natural language applications.Passion for writing, reading, and research. Deep understanding of writing and academic writing in particular.Passion for artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning.Strong command of the English language.Preferred: expertise in one or more of the following languages: German, French, Dutch, Spanish, or Portuguese. PRB