Director, Applied AI

ZoomInfo

. Lead the team building the intelligence underlying ZoomInfo AI agents, including the B2B data graph, training data, model serving, machine learning, data science, LLMs, and agentic systems .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $233,100 - $366,300 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and shipping production machine learning systems, with a focus on classical machine learning, data science, and LLMs. Capable of leading teams, setting evaluation standards, and communicating complex results to executive stakeholders.

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Production Machine Learning SystemsClassical Machine Learning ExpertiseLLM and Agentic Systems ExperienceEvaluation Standards SettingTeam Leadership and Development

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Hard Skills

Supervised LearningFeature EngineeringStatistical InferenceExperiment DesignStrong SQL

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationJudgment in Decision-Making

Tools & Technologies

Agentic Coding ToolsModel Serving

Certifications & Qualifications

ISO/IEC 42001NIST AI RMF

Industry Keywords

B2B Data GraphInference Cost ManagementLatency OptimizationCapacity PlanningPropensity Modeling

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the team building the intelligence underlying ZoomInfo AI agents, including the B2B data graph, training data, model serving, machine learning, data science, LLMs, and agentic systems
Extend ZoomInfo's B2B data graph into the long tail to improve comprehensiveness and accuracy
Lead work on agent memory, distinguishing user-supplied information from system-of-record data
Select classical machine learning, language models, or code for each problem based on measured evidence
Define evaluation standards for models and agents, including evaluation datasets, regression gates, and experiment designs
Own inference cost, latency, and capacity, including build-versus-buy and distillation decisions
Hire and develop machine learning engineers, data scientists, and research engineers
Represent the team's work across product, platform, security, and legal, and present results and limitations to executives
Set standards for using agentic coding tools through precise specifications and rigorous code review

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant, demonstrated experience building and shipping production machine learning systems; capability matters more than years
Track record of hiring and developing senior machine learning engineers and data scientists against a high bar
Current hands-on experience shipping code, prototyping independently, and using agentic coding tools daily with rigorous review
Deep classical machine learning and data science expertise, including supervised learning, feature engineering, statistical inference, experiment design, and strong SQL
Production LLM and agentic systems experience
Judgment to choose between classical machine learning, language models, or code based on measured evidence
Experience setting evaluation standards such as leakage-safe validation and calibration
Experience owning inference cost, latency, and capacity alongside model quality, including build-versus-buy decisions
Ability to communicate results and their limits clearly to executive stakeholders
Preferred: entrepreneurial experience founding a company or taking a product from inception to paying customers
Preferred: experience in propensity modeling, ranking and retrieval, clustering, or entity resolution at scale
Preferred: experience with web-scale language processing over multilingual, noisy text, knowledge graphs, or user memory for agents
Preferred: experience with post-training and distillation, open-weight model serving, or AI governance and safety practices (ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits
Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply