Director, Applied AI

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Applied AI based in United States. This role leads the team responsible for the intelligence that powers AI agents and decision-making systems across a B2B data environment.You will own the data graph strategy end to end, spanning training data, machine learning, LLMs, agentic systems, and model serving.The position combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, prototyping, experimentation, and production delivery.You will guide a small, senior team while setting a high technical bar for model quality, evaluation, scalability, and reliability.The role offers broad cross-functional exposure, partnering with product, platform, security, legal, and executive stakeholders.You will also shape how AI development tools are used across the team, balancing speed of execution with rigorous engineering standards.This is an opportunity to influence foundational AI capabilities while developing senior technical talent and delivering measurable production impact.