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Vice President, Data Science

Five9 · United States (Remote) · Remote

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About Five9

Five9 delivers the most reliable cloud contact center that empowers organizations to deliver extraordinary customer experiences. Request a demo! Backed by Sapphire.

About the role

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.

What they're looking for

  • Cross-Functional Partnering
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineering leaders, UX, and GTM teams to translate business needs into data science strategies
  • Adept at explaining complex technical concepts to executives, customers, and non-technical stakeholders
  • Communication & Storytelling
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including ability to publish thought leadership (papers, blog posts) and present at conferences
  • Team Development & Mentorship
More about this role

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.

Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.

As Vice President of Data Science, you will lead and grow our in-house data science team. This team is responsible for research, experimentation, data collection and curation, and data analysis that contributes to the performance of Five9’s AI products. Tasks include evaluation of and selection of AI agent architectural frameworks, evaluation and comparison of LLM models across commercial and open source choices, model fine-tuning for dedicated tasks, prompt engineering, prompt structure and design, and composite model definitions and evaluations. The scale of Five9 provides a wealth of data that data science team has access to. The data science team is very much applied – their work directly makes its way into real products providing direct customer...

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