About this role

• Lead, design and maintain AI-driven features (forecasting, classification, regression, recommender systems, LLM-powered features…) to effectively solve business challenges.
• Own delivery across multiple workstreams: shape the roadmap with PM/Eng, scope projects, manage dependencies and risks, ensure on‑time, and high quality releases.
• Communicate and align with internal and external stakeholders: present results and findings, identify gaps and opportunities, explain the product and the AI behind.
• Provide leadership for your team: mentor and manage a Data Science team, define modelling/evaluation standards, and lead cross‑functional delivery with PMs/engineers/customers to shape the roadmap and drive measurable business impact.

Journey to impact:

• Month 1 : Understand your domain and roadmap, assess team strengths/gaps, deliver quick wins and establish a prioritized backlog. Present findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Month 3 : Take ownership. Understand a domain end-to-end, solve complex business problems, mentor and be a multiplier for your team collaborate cross-functionally and engaging directly with customers (lead customer workshops and meetings).
• Month 6 : Become a go-to leader. Develop deep expertise in key areas of our product, influence the organization roadmap, be a leader on innovation, propose workflow improvements, and present solutions and our product to leadership and customers.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced professional (8+ years of experience) who thrives at the intersection of business, analytics, and AI: someone who not only trains models but also deeply understands the business context in which they’re applied. Your job is to make sure AI is solving the right problems, using the right approaches, and driving measurable impact.

• Technical stack: You are comfortable writing and debugging in Python and SQL . You have hands-on experience training or fine-tuning ML models (classic ML or LLMs), and have deep expertise in at least one technical area (time series, optimization, recommendations, causal inference…).
• Business & product sense: You understand that AI is only valuable if it moves business metrics . You are skilled at identifying high-impact problems, choosing the right models and approaches, and validating your work with users and stakeholders. You prioritize by impact vs. effort and measure success using both model performance and business KPIs . You are able to create and lead a product roadmap.
• Scientist & builder: Curious and persistent, you try multiple approaches, analyze results, and iterate fast. You know when to experiment with cutting-edge techniques and when to pick simple, reliable solutions that can scale. You can break complex problems into shippable, value-adding steps .
• Communication & influence: You explain complex results clearly to internal & external stakeholders, adapt your message to different audiences, and are able to lead cross-functional teams with product, engineering, and business.
• Startup mindset: You are comfortable with ambiguity and open-ended problems . You are autonomous and proactive: when you see something broken, you fix it or propose improvements. You are able to lead teams through change.
• Leader and expert: Act as a technical lead and trusted business expert. Mentor and level up teammates, and turn expert domain knowledge of at least one area (e.g., finance, supply chain, retail, pharma) into a clear roadmap that delivers measurable business impact.
• Bonus points : PhD in a technical field, strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, familiarity with state-of-the-art LLMs/agentic systems.

About Us

Founded 2020 in Munich, we are a rapidly expanding scale-up in the B2B SaaS area. We've already assembled a super innovative, smart and fun team of 320+ highly motivated employees around our offices in Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, Cluj and New York.

At Aily Labs, we have the bold mission to democratize AI. Our groundbreaking product is an AI-powered mobile app that uses cutting edge GenAI traditional ML to unlock valuable business insights and gives personalized recommendations. Our aim? Disrupting the way corporate entities operate, paving the way for the world's first AI decision intelligence platform that enables faster, simpler and smarter decision-making across the entire value chain, aiming towards full Agentic automation of key business goals.