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AI Administrator managing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Entra ID, and AI governance for Export Development Canada. Supporting secure enterprise AI adoption across Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal.
About the role
- Director leading Homebase’s data engineering, data science, and applied AI teams. Building trusted data infrastructure and AI-powered tools for 150,000+ small businesses.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the Data & AI technical roadmap across data engineering, data platform, data science, and applied AI.
- Lead and grow a 20+ person organization across four sub-teams, including managing managers and senior individual contributors.
- Recruit, develop, and retain talent while building a culture of velocity, ownership, and craft excellence.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and governance of Homebase’s data stack.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ship AI-powered product features, including LLM-based assistants, recommendation systems, and intelligent automation.
- Own the MLOps lifecycle from experimentation through production.
- Build experimentation frameworks, guardrail metrics, and evaluation pipelines.
- Ensure models are reliable, fair, and cost-effective.
- Coach leaders and drive organization-wide adoption of AI tools, workflows, and AI-assisted development practices.
- Define standards for data quality, model monitoring, data contracts, and responsible AI use.
- Serve as the authority on data architecture and AI governance.
- Partner with Product, Growth, GTM, Finance, and CX to address data and AI needs.
Requirements
- 10+ years in data and/or AI/ML.
- At least 5 years leading teams of 8+ across data engineering, data science, or applied AI.
- Director-level leadership experience managing managers, building organizations, and driving technical strategy at scale.
- Deep technical fluency across warehousing, orchestration, transformation, BI, production ML systems, LLMs, and experimentation platforms.
- Strong product instincts connecting data and AI work to customer outcomes and business metrics.
- Active use of AI to improve workflows and experience leading teams that ship AI-powered products.
- Current knowledge of LLMs, agentic systems, and multimodal AI.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.
- Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Airflow, dbt, and ML platforms such as MLflow or Baseten is a strong plus.
- Based in or willing to relocate to the Toronto area.
- Willingness to collaborate in person Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Toronto hub.
- Bonus: experience building data and AI organizations at a SaaS or marketplace company serving SMBs.
- Bonus: background establishing data-as-a-product disciplines, including data contracts, semantic layers, or data mesh concepts.
- Bonus: experience with experimentation platforms and causal inference at scale.
Benefits
- Stock options
- TFSA/RRSP with 4% company match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- Flexible PTO
- Company holidays
- Designated focus periods
- Access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions
- Maternity/Parental Leave EI top-up support offered after 6 months of service
- Work From Anywhere Month
- Meeting-free weeks yearly
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Meals provided
- Team offsites
- Customer Days
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