Senior Manager of Data Science

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Manager of Data Science in Raleigh, NC.

Key Responsibilities: Scope & Impact:

• Set the vision and strategic priorities, acting as a recognized expert for Data Science
• Lead and develop a team of data scientists and ML engineers, setting the cultural tone for the group
• Drive applied research with a clear path to production, explicitly balancing innovation against real-world constraints including latency, cost, and reliability
• Build and scale evaluation science capabilities within the team, including offline evaluation frameworks, automated benchmarking pipelines, and human-in-the-loop feedback systems to rigorously measure model quality and business impact
• Champion hands-on rapid prototyping and iteration
• Collaborate with other Data Science teams to maximize re-use of components and patterns, eliminating waste, duplication and unnecessary customization
• Operate with broad scope, coordinating across multiple cross-functional teams, systems, and domains

Technical & Product Leadership:

• Collaborate closely with other Data Science teams, to define and execute the AI roadmap across the content lifecycle, maximizing reuse in areas including: Content collection (e.g. -web scraping-) and transformation; Metadata extraction, enrichment, and classification; Agentic workflows turning real-world events and legal content into legal intelligence; AI-powered downstream product capabilities
• Design and deploy scalable, production-grade AI systems, including: LLM-powered document understanding and generation; Agentic workflows balancing agent autonomy and efficiency with required structure and accuracy; Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines; Hybrid ML + rules-based systems for structured content
• Lead through execution and by example: Actively writing code, not just delegating