Manager, Data Science

What Expel can do for you

• Give you an environment where people, process, and purpose actually matter — not just as values on a wall
• Connect you with cross-functional collaborators (PM, UX, D&R, Security, Engineering) who are genuinely invested in building great things together
• Let you work on hard, meaningful problems — using AI to help defenders win
• Offer unlimited PTO (that leadership models and encourages), up to 24 weeks of parental leave, and really excellent health benefits
• Support your professional growth with a conference benefit and continuous learning opportunities
• Offer work location flexibility, including remote from your home office

What you can do for Expel

Lead the team

• Guide the data science team to work on small-to-medium scale, high-impact R&D projects — iterating fast, communicating status clearly, and coordinating delivery with stakeholders
• Coach and develop your team through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career conversations; recruit and onboard new members with an eye toward team dynamics
• Foster a culture of responsible AI, innovation, and technical excellence

Shape the strategy

• Work closely with PM, UX, D&R, Security, and Engineering to contribute to product strategy, set delivery expectations, and engage in collaborative discussion about tradeoffs
• Collaborate with peer teams to define Expel's generative AI and LLM strategy — identifying opportunities to leverage foundation models, new architectures, and agentic workflows
• Engage in resource planning, technical decision making, and budget management in service of the product and technical roadmaps

Drive execution

• Define clear, measurable milestones for research initiatives; monitor progress with data-driven metrics; communicate regularly with senior leadership
• Contribute to and maintain responsible AI practices including model fairness, explainability, safety guardrails, and bias monitoring for production ML and LLM systems
• Contribute to non-critical-path feature implementation, bug fixing, and technical design (no more than 25% of your time)

Build Expel's external voice

• Partner with Marketing to develop blogs, papers, and talks on how Expel thinks about, applies, measures, and validates the use of ML, generative AI, and LLMs
• Present internally and externally to both technical and non-technical audiences

What you should bring with you

Leadership & collaboration

• Proven track record leading and managing data science teams (4+ years), with strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to build trust quickly and sustain strong relationships with PM, Customer Success, and engineering peers
• Excellent project management, problem solving, and multitasking skills across remote/hybrid teams