Executive Director Data Scientist

JPMC is hiring the best talents to join the growing Asset and Wealth Management team. We are executing like a startup and building next-generation technology that combines JPMC unique data and full-service advantage to develop high impact AI applications and platforms in the financial services industry. We are looking for hands-on ML Engineering leader and expert who is excited about the opportunity.

As an Applied Data Science DirectorDirector of Data Science and AI you will will lead the strategy delivery and adoption of applied data science solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. This leader will partner with product engineering and business stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities build scalable ML/AI solutions and operationalize models in production using modern MLOps practices. The role combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership governance and executive communication.

Youll combine your years of proven development expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. Your passion and experience in one or more technology domains will help solve complex business problems to serve our Private Bank clients. As a constant learner and early adopter youre already embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies; your example encourages others to follow suit.

Job Responsibilities

• Define applied DS strategy and roadmapaligned to business priorities; identify size and prioritize use cases based on value feasibility and risk.
• Lead end-to-end ML lifecycle: problem framing data assessment feature engineering model development validation deployment monitoring and iteration.
• Deliver production-grade solutionsin close partnership with Engineering and Product ensuring scalable architectures reliability and maintainability.
• Drive experimentation and measurement: establish A/B testing and causal inference approaches define success metrics and quantify business impact.
• Implement MLOps standards: CI/CD for ML model registries automated retraining drift monitoring and reproducible pipelines.
• Ensure responsible AI and governance: model risk management explainability bias/fairness privacy documentation and audit readiness.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team: hiring coaching performance management career development and best-practice communities.
• Influence stakeholders and executive audiences: communicate tradeoffs recommendations and results clearly; drive alignment across functions.
• Establish DS operating mechanisms: intake processes review boards (model/design) documentation standards and delivery playbooks.
• Promote data-driven cultureby enabling self-service analytics raising data literacy and strengthening decision frameworks.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Statistics Mathematics Engineering or related field and minimum 10 yearsof experience in data science/ML/analytics with 5 yearsin leadership/management roles.
• Proven record delivering applied ML/AIsolutions with measurable impact in production environments and strong foundation in statistics and ML (supervised/unsupervised learning model evaluation uncertainty experimentation).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills; ability to translate business problems into DS solutions and influence decision and collaborate with firmwide ML teams Business and Product Partners peers in geographically dispersed teams and colleagues across JPMorgan AWMs lines of business and functions to drive alignment accelerate adoption of common AI capabilities and deliver impactful solutions
• Ability to drive standards: documentation code quality reproducibility review processes.
• Experience with GenAI/LLMs(prompting RAG evaluation guardrails) or AI product delivery.
• Must have strong programming skills in Python Go or Java . ML/AI:classification/regression tree-based models NLP time series recommendation anomaly detection (as applicable). Experimentation:A/B testing causal inference uplift modeling metric design statistical power.
• Ability to partner effectively with Data Engineers for data modeling pipelines (batch/stream) feature stores. Expertise in MLOps & Production:model deployment patterns (batch/real-time) monitoring drift detection retraining model registry CI/CD for ML.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• ML/AI:classification/regression tree-based models NLP time series recommendation anomaly detection (as applicable).
• Experimentation:A/B testing causal inference uplift modeling metric design statistical power.
• Ability to partner effectively with Data Engineers for data modeling pipelines (batch/stream) feature stores.
• Expertise in MLOps & Production:model deployment patterns (batch/real-time) monitoring drift detection retraining model registry CI/CD for ML.
• Cloud & Platforms:AWS and/or Azure (compute storage orchestration); containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes familiarity.
• Strong written and verbal communication; executive-ready narratives and crisp decision materials.