Salary
$244,000–$282,000
Posted
Jul 12, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing company-wide AI and data science strategy, reporting directly to the CEO. The position oversees machine learning engineering, ML, and AI engineering teams while driving governance, prioritization, and measurable ROI across internal and customer-facing AI initiatives. It suits a technically fluent leader with a decade or more of experience who can bridge hands-on data science work with cross-functional executive partnership.

Principal level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time

Pay in the description: $244,000–$282,000

Must have (4)
machine learningMLOpsLLMsagentic AI
Nice to have (4)
AWS, Azure or GCPanomaly detectiontime-series datasignal processing

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 470 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 200–700

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
MLOps8%machine learning12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (8)

This is a 'Head of AI' role reporting directly to the CEO, with org-wide scope across ML Engineering, ML, and AI Engineering functions — this is a genuine Principal/org-wide leadership role, not merely a Senior or Staff position.

The title carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the actual scope (CEO-report, company-wide AI strategy, team-building authority) supports Principal.

SOC 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is the primary classification given the explicit people-management, hiring, budgeting, and org-building responsibilities. 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is the runner-up given the deep hands-on technical fluency and data science leadership required.

A Bachelor's degree in CS, data science, AI, engineering, or related field is explicitly required; an advanced degree (MSc, PhD, or MBA) is listed as preferred — the degree requirement is set to Bachelors accordingly.

AWS, MLOps tooling, cloud data platforms, anomaly detection, time-series data, and signal processing all appear under the 'Nice to Have' section and are marked preferred.

The role is remote-first (US and Ontario, Canada distributed team); compensation range is US-specific per the posting. No specific metro is listed.

Compensation includes equity (stock options) and benefits in addition to the stated base salary range.

This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.

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