Career Developers, Inc.
11 - 50 employees
Founded 1994
Career Developers, located in West Palm Beach and has been serving the NY Metro area for 3 decades! We are an experienced, full-service agency providing permanent placement as well as consulting/contracting services. We recruit for the following sectors: Information Technology, Accounting, Marketing and Human Resources for a variety of small start-ups, to mid-size clients throughout the New Jersey/New York area. We have lately been focused on Fintech, Adtech, Health Tech, and other smaller growing fast-growing start-ups. Since our inception in 1994, our main goal has been relationship building, partnering, and helping our clients and candidates achieve their ultimate goals.
Machine Learning Manager – Personalisation ML
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🕒 November 1, 2025
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Career Developers, Inc.
11 - 50 employees
Founded 1994
Career Developers, located in West Palm Beach and has been serving the NY Metro area for 3 decades! We are an experienced, full-service agency providing permanent placement as well as consulting/contracting services. We recruit for the following sectors: Information Technology, Accounting, Marketing and Human Resources for a variety of small start-ups, to mid-size clients throughout the New Jersey/New York area. We have lately been focused on Fintech, Adtech, Health Tech, and other smaller growing fast-growing start-ups. Since our inception in 1994, our main goal has been relationship building, partnering, and helping our clients and candidates achieve their ultimate goals.
📋 Description
• As a Machine Learning Manager, you are responsible for an engineering team and the technology that the team owns. • You will not only work as a coach for your people but also as a technical leader, ensuring that the right technical decisions are made when building our product. • Build a strong team within their area, by coaching and developing individual contributors • Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating • Nurture, grow and develop ML talent in the team • Foster a great culture that innovates, works together as a team, partners with other Booking.com teams and roles and celebrates unified success • Translate business problems into viable, reliable and robust ML and AI solutions, accounting for constraints of the production environment. • Monitor product health, performance and business impact and act accordingly when requirements are not met. • Actively contribute to Machine Learning at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing, onboarding and mentoring colleagues. • Adhere to the default principles for Architecture, quality and non-functional requirements • Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations • Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap • Build new products, processes and operational plans • Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features • Drive innovation in own team
🎯 Requirements
• Advanced knowledge and experience in areas like e.g. Recommender Systems, Online Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Multi Armed Bandits, Causal Inference and Scaling ML models serving and training • Experience designing and executing end-to-end research and development plans and generating impact through large-scale machine learning model development. Preferably evidenced by peer-reviewed publication, patents, open sourced code or the like. • Relevant work experience (MSc + 5 years of working experience), involved in the application of Machine Learning to business problems. • Masters degree, PhD or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Physics, etc.). • Experience on multiple machine learning facets: working with large data sets, model development, statistics, experimentation, data visualization, optimization, software development. • Experience collaborating cross functionally in the development of machine learning products (e.g. Developers, UX specialists, Product Managers, etc.). • Strong working knowledge of Python, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, SQL, and Spark or similar technologies. • Working experience with version control systems. • Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal. • 3+ years leading an ML team of a minimum of 4 people in a fast-paced production environment. • Successfully driving technical, business and people related initiatives that improve productivity, performance and quality while communicating with stakeholders at all levels • Leading by example, gaining respect through actions, not your title • Developing your team and motivating them to achieve their goals. • Providing feedback timely and managing your key team performance indicators
🏖️ Benefits
• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe • Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide • Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture • Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit • Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions • Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation • Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com
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