Director, Applied AI

Director, Applied AI

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC is seeking a Director, Applied AI to lead the team that builds the intelligence every ZoomInfo AI agent reasons over. This role involves owning the B2B data graph strategy end to end, blending classical machine learning and data science with LLM and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Ship code alongside your team, prototype alone to prove or kill an idea, and review code as a peer.
• Own delivery end-to-end, from problem framing through serving and on-call.
• Choose the right method for each problem — classical machine learning, language models, or code.
• Define what it takes to claim an agent's output is correct, not just that its run completed.
• Own inference cost, latency, and capacity, including build-versus-buy and distillation decisions.
• Hire and grow machine learning engineers, data scientists, and research engineers.
• Work across product, platform, security, and legal, and present results and their limits to executives.

Requirements

• Significant experience building production machine learning systems and leading engineers who build them.
• Track record of hiring and developing senior machine learning engineers and data scientists.
• Hands-on today: shipping code, building prototypes independently, and using agentic coding tools daily.
• Deep classical machine learning and data science expertise alongside production LLM and agentic systems.
• Record of cost and capacity decisions for model serving.

Salary $233,100 — $366,300 USD

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