About the role
Strategy and Vision: Own the AI strategy for dating recommendations across the full journey, from first candidate to last date. Build the frameworks to reason rigorously through ecosystem tradeoffs where a win for one cohort reshapes another, and set a vision ambitious enough that the org wants to chase it.
What they're looking for
- 10 or more years across data science, applied ML, and software engineering, with 6 or more years in AI or engineering leadership defining strategy, not just managing execution
- A track record of leading real-time, personalized recommendation systems in production, including the relevance, fairness, and scale tradeoffs that carry real consequences
- Demonstrated success scaling ML or AI teams and developing technical leaders who carry the work over years, not a single launch
- Deep technical fluency across ML, RL, Generative AI, and MLOps, with the communication skills and executive presence to represent AI strategy at the highest levels of the organization
- A degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field. A PhD is a plus, not a requirement
More about this role
Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted
In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role
Most consumer apps treat your attention as the product, optimizing every recommendation and notification to keep you scrolling. Hinge made the opposite bet: our mission is to get people off the app, out on a date, and eventually to delete us entirely. That is not a tagline. It is the actual constraint every AI system we build has to solve against.
The Director of AI, Dating Outcomes owns the hardest version of that problem. You will lead the AI systems at the core of how Hinge connects people: the recommendation engine, the ranking models, and the generative capabilities that help users put their best selves forward. The goal is not engagement, it is outcomes: fewer ratings per exchange, higher...
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