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AI R&D Group Manager

Description

Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK) is a mobile gaming entertainment and technology market leader with a portfolio of multiple game titles. Founded in 2010, Playtika was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and guided by a mission to entertain the world through infinite ways to play, Playtika has offices worldwide and over 4,000 employees.

Playtika is looking for an AI R&D Group Manager to work within the technology division!

Responsibilities

• Enable team leaders to create an inclusive environment, and coach and drive technical excellence.
• Attract, develop, and retain the best talent in the team, and engage our people effectively to drive clarity and energy in a fast-pacing environment.
• Accountable for the design, implementation, schedule, and delivery, of the ML engineering team’s programs & products.
• Lead the team in adopting relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes.
• Support and influence the team culture of being value-centric and continuously improving. Identify and implement engineering best practices.
• Managing and growing engineering teams of highly capable engineers developing a world-class ML platform and services.
• Championing engineering practices that ensure safe and fast-paced releases of AI & Digital Studio programs & features.
• Drive telemetry and analytics to take a data-driven approach to understand services performance & operational metrics.
• Leading Design, Code reviews to ensure a consistently high level of design and implementation.
• Collaborate with engineering experts and architects to build mature service capabilities (telemetry & monitoring, self-healing, and self-service, scalability, etc.)
• Ensuring compliance with security, GDPR, etc., and performance criteria

Requirements

• Hands on experience design and implementation of Big Data pipelines and tech stack (Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Hive etc) -MUST
• 2 years of experience as a team leader
• 3+ years of solid design / Software engineering experience on large/complex applications development using various technologies.
• Strong software engineering skills – design, development, automation, and testing experience in a startup or enterprise environment.
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning Workflow, frameworks, infrastructures and best-practices
• Good knowledge of programming concepts and frameworks (Python – must have, Java – advantage)
• Familiar with continuous integration, unit and functional non-functional testing practices, and continuous deployment systems.
• Familiar with DevOps practices.

People Skills:

• Ability to motivate and influence a team.
• Ability to lead, coach and provide leadership to staff on goals, objectives, and performance success criteria.
• Ability to manage high performers.
• Aligns team’s commitments with organizational strategic direction.
• Effectively utilizes resources.

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