About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist who is passionate about the power of AI and thrives at the intersection of business, analytics, and AI. Your job is to ensure AI is solving the right problems, using the right approaches, and driving measurable impact.
Responsibilities
- Own key features and projects; design and improve models, pipelines, and experimentation frameworks
- Communicate and align with internal/external stakeholders; turn business requirements into AI solutions; make speed vs. quality trade-offs
- Provide technical mentorship; set modeling standards and drive cross-functional delivery with PMs, engineers, and customers
- Have deep expertise in one technical area; lead by example on technical excellence, business acumen, and strategic vision
- Define and own AI domain roadmaps; transform ambiguous business challenges into structured action plans with clear milestones and dependencies
- Lead 5+ simultaneous projects across multiple workstreams; shape product strategy with PM/Eng; manage risks and ensure timely, high-quality releases
- Demonstrate strong business acumen: estimate AI solution impact on KPIs and business outcomes; identify domain-wide opportunities and influence strategy
- Provide leadership for the Data Science team: mentor and manage; define standards; drive impactful cross-functional delivery; empower team members
Requirements
- Principal Data Scientist – 7+ years
- Have comprehensive MLOps expertise
- Advanced Python/SQL skills
- Domain specialization
- Enforce code quality standards across the team
- Someone who thrives at the intersection of business, analytics, and AI and wants to ensure AI solves the right problems with measurable impact.
- A scientist and builder: you explore multiple approaches, analyze results, and iterate fast, balancing cutting‑edge techniques with simple, scalable solutions.
- A strong communicator who adapts the message to different audiences and enjoys working cross‑functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Someone with a startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, proactive, and hands‑on when something needs fixing or improving.
- Ready to Lead Boldly – helping business leaders make decisive decisions powered by real-time AI insights
- Applicants must already possess valid, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.
- Candidates requiring sponsorship will not be considered for this role.
Skills
- MLOps expertise
- Advanced Python skills
- Advanced SQL skills
- Domain specialization
- AI
- Machine learning
- Large language models
- Agentic AI
- Statistical techniques
- GenAI
- Knowledge Graph
- Agentic techniques
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Permanent
- hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Experience Level
- 7+ years
About the Company
- Aily Labs is a B2B SaaS company building an AI-powered decision intelligence app for enterprises.
- Our mobile-first platform combines company data with advanced machine learning, large language models, and agentic AI to give business leaders clear, actionable insights in real time.
- Instead of traditional dashboards and reports, Aily delivers simple, personalized recommendations that help teams decide and act faster across finance, supply chain, R&D, commercial, and more.
- The app is designed to be intuitive for end users and easy to integrate for IT, so companies can move from analysis and indecision to confident, data-driven decisions every day.
- Founded in 2020 in Munich, Aily Labs has grown into a global team of 300+ people across Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, Cluj, New York, and soon Mexico City.
- Our mission is to democratize AI in business and enable leaders to Lead Boldly, turning complex data into decisions that drive real, measurable impact.
