Senior Team Leader, Machine Learning Engineering

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Rocket Money's mission is to meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of millions of people. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.

The Rocket Money Data Science and Machine Learning team builds AI-powered experiences that help our members achieve their financial goals. Our team consists of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers who work within an embedded organizational structure to deliver user-facing ML products, drive experimentation, and build scalable AI systems. Team members collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to transform innovative ideas into production features.

We're growing our team and are looking for a Senior Team Leader who can build and nurture a high-performing data science and machine learning team while fostering an environment of technical excellence, continuous learning, and impactful product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 7-10 data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers, creating processes that enable autonomous operation within cross-functional teams while maintaining high quality standards and accountability for AI/ML product delivery.
• Drive architectural strategy for AI/ML systems, with particular focus on implementing LLM-powered features and GenAI applications that enhance our product experience and customer engagement.
• Guide the development and implementation of our next-generation chat experiences and AI-augmented analytics initiatives, ensuring successful delivery of conversational interfaces for both customer-facing and internal tools.
• Direct the development of AI and ML-driven personalization systems across our product suite.
• Engage in creating great developer experiences for AI and ML systems across our technology teams.
• Foster strong working relationships across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure successful integration of AI and ML systems into our technology stack.
• Create ambitious yet achievable quarterly roadmaps that advance our ML/AI infrastructure that enhance your team’s ability to deliver tangible value to users through work with product development teams.
• Be accountable for making, measuring, and delivering on team commitments, particularly in experimentation and the systematic deployment of ML/AI features.
• Invest in your team by building and supporting individualized growth and development plans aligned with our company’s organizational strategy, focusing on technical abilities and product shipping mindset.
• Create impactful mentorship relationships that drive higher quality AI/ML system design and implementation across teams.

Requirements

• You have a build first mindset and have led teams that deliver customer facing products.
• You have deep expertise in machine learning

Company Information

Rocket Money’s mission is to meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of millions of people. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey.