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As a VP of Engineering at anch.AI you are responsible for the strategy and execution of all product-related activities within an organization. Your responsibilities begin in the product innovation and vision stages, continue through managing how the engineering team will use technology to improve the products or services they produce. You work closely with the company´s Chief Product Marketing Officer (CPMO) and report to the company’s chief executive officer (CEO).

Your primary goal is to lead and facilitate the engineering teams to ensure they are creating products that deliver value to both the user and the business. To do this, you must align the needs and goals of both the product and the company through;

• Evaluation of client needs, helping determine which products will experience high demand.
• In meetings with investors and other stakeholders, present product proposals.
• Recommend product development strategies that generate increased revenue through sales of the product.

You must be able to communicate across various teams within the organization — including marketing, sales, designers, and engineers — to ensure the product successfully moves from its conception, through development and onto its release and distribution.

Role and responsibilities

You help lead the company by maintaining a broad view of organizational goals, needs and successes while simultaneously focusing specifically on the product’s objectives and needs.

The role of the VP of Engineering at anch.AI includes:

• product vision that aims to create a scalable product portfolio that will increase the company’s profitability
• product innovation through evaluating market trends and the competition
• product design to ensure that the product and its features are aligned with the company´s objectives
• user research to ensure that the product is consistently improved and that it continues to satisfy customers.
• product development by managing the daily progression of all product-related activities
• product analytics and metrics to determine whether a product or specific features are ready for the market.

The objectives of a VP of Engineering at anch.AI include leading and mentoring the engineering team; developing a vision and strategy for product creation; and providing research that facilitates informed problem solving and decision-making across the company.

As a VP of Engineering at anch.AI you work closely with the company’s CPMO in creating the product vision and to raise awareness for the product from its conception to its release.

To fulfil these objectives, you must:

• be a strong leader and supervisor;
• be capable of understanding and interpreting data; and
• possess strategic product vision skills;

In addition, for good collaboration with the CPMO, you must;

• understand marketing and publicity; and
• remain sensitive to customers and users.

Employment Type: Full-time

About you

• Are you passionate about enabling ethical AI across industry and society?
• Do you want to take part in scaling the first cross-functional ethical AI governance platform?
• Do you want to be part of a visionary startup team?
• Are you motivated by owning and directly effecting the valuation of your equity in the short term?

What Technologies are we working with?

• Angular, WordPress, JQuery, TypeScript, Bootstrap
• Entity Framework and Microsoft SQL Server
• Latest versions of .NET, C#, .NET Framework and .NET Core
• Build and deploy in Microsoft Azure
• Agile software development including version control (Github)

What we offer

• The opportunity to work on exiting projects at the cutting edge of AI and society. You’ll get to make a difference to how organizations implement AI responsibly.
• We offer a competitive salary with stock options
• You’ll get to work in a flexible working environment with an open-minded team from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• We know the world of work has changed to there will be opportunities for remote work
• Your career development is important to us, so you’ll get to collaborate on projects with colleagues and external agencies and we’ll help you develop your expertise.

Please apply with CV and cover letter latest by May 20th, 2022. We will review the applications and call for interviews continuously. For more information see www.anch.ai.
Please note that you must have the right to work in Sweden.

• Apply: info@anch.ai
  Employment type: Full time, local employment
  Location: Stockholm, Sweden

About you

• Are you passionate about enabling ethical AI across industry and society?
• Do you want to take part in scaling the first cross-functional ethical AI governance platform?
• Do you want to be part of creating state-of-the art ethical AI tools?
• Do you want to be part of a visionary startup team?
• Are you motivated by owning and directly effecting the valuation of your equity in the short term?

Preferred skills

• Overall solution design and software product architecture.
• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI/ML, Data Science, or Software Engineering specialization is a plus)
• Familiarity with, prototyping, structures experimentation, MVPs, (agile and lean start-up methodology)
• Ability to take a leading development role, including with coordinating partly outsourced development.
• Coding and programming languages, such as Python, Java, C++, C, R and JavaScript.
• Experience in working with ML frameworks.
• Experience working with ML libraries and packages.
• Experience with fair AI, explainable AI, and other ethically relevant AI domains.

What we offer

• The opportunity to work on exiting projects at the cutting edge of AI and society. You’ll get to make a difference to how organizations implement AI responsibly.
• We offer a competitive salary with stock options
• You’ll get to work in a flexible working environment with an open-minded team from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• We know the world of work has changed to there will be opportunities for remote work
• Your career development is important to us, so you’ll get to collaborate on projects with colleagues and external agencies and we’ll help you develop your expertise.

Today there is a gap in tools for applying AI which are understandable, explainable, and accountable to various stakeholder groups. We seek to address this gap by developing user-centered tools, which communicate explanations and fairness for AI decisions in an appropriately understandable manner that has been validated by end-users themselves.

Example project investigations

• Prototyping interfaces for communicating explainable AI results to end users. Which methods are best for which contexts/end users? How should AI and design parameters can be adjusted to enhance usability?
• Development of explainable or fair AI applications following a rigorous approach, such as design science, and involving end users (user-centered design).

Requirements

• Background in AI concepts and methods, or strong willingness to learn
• Documented experience with design and/or production of computer applications
• A preferable applicant possesses software development, human-computer interaction, and/or interaction design experience
  • For human-computer interaction this will include documented experience with prototyping interfaces and relevant evaluation methods and metrics
  • For software development this will include documented experience developing software (preferably, web-based applications)

anch.AI aims to not only apply existing AI methods, but also to advance the state-of-the-art techniques and rigorously investigate existing approaches from an ethical lens. We are seeking candidates who are looking to bridge the gap between the technical demands of AI innovation, and the needs of society stakeholders. To accomplish this, we will analyze and expand on the existing landscape of fair and explainable AI algorithms according to the needs dictated by society.

Example project investigations

• Empirical comparison of fairness algorithms across ethically sensitive domains: What approaches enhance fairness the best and why? What are the performance vs. fairness trade-offs across various domains/contexts?
• Developing and applying generalized state-of-the-art Fair and/or Explainable AI algorithms
• Developing and applying state-of-the-art Fair or Explainable AI algorithms tailored for particular contexts, sectors, or industries (e.g. health care)

Requirements

• Background in AI concepts and methods, or strong willingness to learn
• Documented experience with machine learning modeling and evaluation in the form of documented course work and/or practical work using programming languages (e.g. Python, R, Java, C++)

anch.AI collaborates with experts, practitioners, and researchers across all disciplines where AI impacts society. We seek to better understand public, and other stakeholder perspectives on requirements for AI, such as explainability and fairness. We offer specialized projects to motivated researchers in social, legal, behavior, economic, and various technical studies in order to capture unique insights from a variety of diverse viewpoints.

Example project investigations

• Investigating perceptions on AI fairness across various stakeholder and demographic groups through the use of survey methods and/or data crawling (e.g. Twitter data)
• Establishing and validating protocols for AI fairness metrics that are applicable to a wide variety of contexts (e.g. high-risk and low-risk)

Requirements

• Background with relevant AI concepts and methods, or a strong willingness to learn
• Familiarity with relevant qualitative and quantitative research methods