WHEN YOU JOIN VERIZON

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

DEVELOP NEXT GENERATION AI CAPABILITIES

• Leading in developing the next generation of AI that protects the privacy of our customers and ensures that our modeling practices are ethical and bias free. Bring thought leadership in this space by introducing ways of identifying and testing for biases in our models. Introduce new methods to protect the confidentiality of our data.
• Developing testing and validation rigor for all new and next generation AI methods.
• Collaborating with data scientist teams and senior leaders to ensure model testing and validation discipline is followed for all models including models deployed in production.

This is a leadership role that will require deep technical expertise in data science and AI methods, experience with implementation of AI in commercial applications and experience in leading and building a team. This leader and the team will focus on proactive research on the next generation of AI methods with a focus on building ethical AI capabilities and designing models and model testing and validations practices that eliminate potential for biases. This role will work closely with data science teams and the entire data scientist community at Verizon in proactively designing and developing unbiased and ethical AI capabilities. These AI capabilities will include predictive, prescriptive and adaptive applications for all predictions and inferences at Verizon. Models will typically get implemented on premise, in cloud and/or on the edge and in both real-time and batch mode depending upon the business applications. At Verizon, we are on a multi-year journey to industrialize our data science and AI capabilities. Very simply, this means that AI will fuel all decisions and business processes across the company. At $130B+ in annual revenue, this is a pioneering opportunity to design and shape AI at scale in the Telco industry. With our leadership in bringing 5G network nationwide, the opportunity for AI will only grow exponentially in going from enabling billions of predictions to possibly trillions of predictions that are automated and real-time. Therefore, it will be critical that this candidate possess previous experience in research and validation of AI and data science techniques. An ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, critical thinking, and strategic thinking skills above and beyond the technical knowledge and commercial application experience required. Responsibilities include….