Director Decision Science

• Define and own the enterprise decisioning charter, objectives, operating model, guardrails (e.g., prospect and existing client fatigue, fairness, privacy), and KPI trees aligned to strategic business outcomes.

• Establish and govern the enterprise roadmap for the decision engine, including prioritization of NBA and lead-routing initiatives in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Product, Technology, and Client Services.

• Balance delivery commitments, technical constraints, and strategic trade-offs while communicating clear timing, dependencies, and risks to executive stakeholders.

• Maintain end-to-end accountability for the architecture, build, performance, governance, and lifecycle management of a real-time decision engine powering NBA decisions and decision sequences at scale.

• Direct teams responsible for translating enterprise goals (e.g., sales growth, engagement, retention) into eligibility schemas, fatigue and frequency limits, fairness constraints, reward functions, and constrained optimization approaches (assignment, pacing, routing).

• Oversee the design and deployment of decision policies, optimization frameworks, and sequencing logic that deliver the best action or action sequence for each prospect or existing client.

• Establish standards for experimentation, rollout, and risk management, incorporating canaries, bandit approaches, A/B testing, and statistically sound ship/iterate/stop decisions.

• Partner with personalization, experimentation, and analytics leaders to co-own experimentation strategy, learning agendas, and measurement frameworks.

• Lead cross-functional technology delivery by setting requirements and direction for real-time decision APIs, integrations, rules engines, data models, and logging frameworks.

• Ensure enterprise standards for versioning, audit trails, rollback and disaster recovery plans, incident response, and service-level agreements.

• Maintain canonical decision metrics, fairness and eligibility checks, transparent decision logs, and audit-ready documentation to support reporting, regulatory review, and internal governance.

• Build, lead, and develop a team of Decision Science and Technical Product Management leaders; set expectations, coach performance, and grow enterprise decisioning capabilities.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

• 9+ years of experience in decision science, applied data science, optimization, or equivalent fields.

• 3+ years of experience leading managers or senior practitioners in a people management capacity.

• Proven leadership in the design, delivery, and governance of enterprise-scale, real-time decisioning and decision policy systems.

• Deep expertise in optimization and experimentation techniques, including uplift modeling, bandits, experimental design, generalized linear models, allocation models, and related approaches.

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with the ability to guide technical standards and review work at scale.

• Experience directing teams that build or integrate real-time, API-driven decisioning platforms.

• Strong business and financial acumen, with demonstrated executive communication skills and ability to influence senior leaders.

• Strategic thinker capable of balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform and capability vision.

• Demonstrated success shipping and operating decision or rules engines in production, including integration with feature stores and model registries.

• Experience overseeing experimental design and measurement practices across teams.

• Strong intuition for end-customer needs and behaviors, and the ability to translate insights into scalable decision strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations to drive enterprise priorities.

• Working curiosity and applied understanding of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and their impact on decisioning, optimization, and governance.

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