Head of Data Science
Job description
Lead Data Scientist role at Peec AI, an AI search platform, reporting to the CTO and leading a team of 7 data scientists. The role combines people leadership with technical direction for the data science and ML work behind the product.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Berlin
What you'll do
- Hire, onboard and grow the data science team, shaping who joins and how they ramp up
- Build a team culture that matches our values: a high bar for quality, full ownership of outcomes, and kindness towards each other
- Lead and inspire the team through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback and clear career paths
- Set the technical direction and roadmap for data science, together with product and engineering leadership, and decide what the team works on and what it doesn't
- Own quality in production with strong operational excellence and reproducibility across the ML lifecycle
- Drive innovation by investing in scalable machine learning data infrastructure
- Stay close to the work: review designs and code, and step in hands-on when it matters
- Represent data science to leadership and customers
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in data science or machine learning, including 3+ years managing data scientists or ML engineers as direct reports, ideally at a high-growth startup or an established tech company
- A track record of building great teams: hiring well, developing people, and creating the standards and rituals that make a team more than the sum of its individuals
- Experience taking ML products from research to production, and building the practices that keep them reliable: evaluation, monitoring, reproducibility
- A solid understanding of LLMs and strong instincts for measurement and statistics when outputs are noisy
- Strong technical depth to review architecture and modeling decisions, ideally in cloud-native environments (GCP a plus)
- Clear communication with executives, engineers and customers, including being honest about uncertainty
- Good judgment under ambiguity, and the ownership to deliver outcomes despite blockers
Nice to have
- Contributions to open-source projects or ML tooling
- Public side or research projects that show technical depth
- Publications or talks at ML or AI conferences
- Founder experience or senior technical leadership at a high-growth startup
Your team
Data science
A fast-growing data science team of 7 data scientists, with AI-powered features shipping across the product.
Benefits
- A defining leadership role with real impact and ownership at one of Europe's fastest-growing Series A startups
- Regular team events and off-sites
- Aggressive equity
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About Peec AI
AI search platform that helps marketing teams understand and improve how their brands are discovered, represented, and recommended
Peec AI is an AI search platform that helps marketing teams understand and improve how their brands are discovered, represented, and recommended. We show them where they stand, what's shaping it, and where to act. Since launching in January 2025, Peec AI has passed $20M ARR and 4,000 paying customers. We're a Series A company backed by 20VC and Singular, with 100+ people across our Berlin HQ and our New York office.
Mission
Winning customers now means winning over the AI systems that influence their decisions.
Key facts
- 100+ people
- Berlin
- AI search platform
- Launched in January 2025
- Passed $20M ARR
- 4,000 paying customers
- Series A company
- 100+ people across Berlin HQ and New York office
Partners & customers
What they value
- A high bar for quality
- Full ownership of outcomes
- Kindness towards each other