Junior Machine Learning Team Leader

Lead, mentor, and empower a team of Machine Learning Engineers, ensuring ownership of model quality throughout the entire lifecycle, from experimentation to production-ready deployment. Conduct regular 1-on-1s, support career development, provide constructive feedback, remove blockers, and promote team well-being. Drive team execution through prioritization, sprint planning, and resource allocation to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. Act as the primary technical representative for the team, collaborating closely with Data Science, Engineering, and Product stakeholders. Own the technical roadmap for machine learning initiatives, prioritizing improvements based on measurable performance gains and business impact. Guide the design, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation of machine learning models across multiple domains, including classification, similarity search, reputation scoring, computer vision, and threat detection. Define model quality standards, evaluation