Data, ML and Platform leadership
Hire Data, ML or Platform Leadership
Leaders for the functions whose customer is the rest of engineering, plus the ML orgs now carrying product risk directly.
The remit
- Data platform, ML platform, infrastructure, developer productivity or SRE
- Owns systems every other team depends on, and the reliability bar for them
- Increasingly owns model quality and cost as a first-class product concern
What we calibrate for
- Has run a platform whose users are internal, which is a different political job
- Can make a build-versus-buy call and defend the cost
- Real production ML experience where it is more than a batch job
- Has retired a system, not only launched one
Comp context
$230K to $320K base depending on scope and specialism
Market context for the level, not a quote for your mandate. We benchmark base and equity together against your stage before a shortlist goes out.
Where this level starts and stops
Product engineering leaders are measured on shipped features; these leaders are measured on leverage and reliability, which almost never shows up on a roadmap. Screening for one using the other's criteria is the usual mistake.
Hiring at this level? A calibrated shortlist lands in 5 business days, and the fee is 18% of first-year base, invoiced once they have started work.
Other levels we recruit
Hiring Data, ML or Platform Leadership? Let’s fill it.
On the intake call you find out whether we already have strong leaders for your role. If we don’t, you hear that too.
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