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Hiring New Talent to Drive Innovation for an Emotional AI Company with Data Science Talent

A pioneering Emotional AI Company needed a Senior Computer Vision Product Manager to improve product capability and define the company’s roadmap.

Region

World-wide

Industry

Tech/AI

Company Size

Medium

Hiring Manager

Chief Technology Officer/Co-founder

Positions for Hire

Senior Computer Vision Product Manager

At a Glance

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THE CHALLENGE


Finding a replacement Senior Computer Vision Product Manager to improve product capability and define a roadmap for the company’s R&D function.

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THE ACTION


DST identified that a candidate with hybrid skills (who was ‘hands on’ and ‘hands off’) would be best for the role.

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THE IMPACT


DST found the right person for the role who had the right hybrid approach.

Challenge

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) needed to hire a replacement Senior Computer Vision Product Manager to help improve and upgrade the capability of a range of products that read emotions through people’s facial expressions.

The role’s responsibility included defining a roadmap for the R&D function to fit with the objectives and future vision of the overall business.

Normally, a Product Manager role would be ‘hands-off’, focusing on instructing and coordinating product development and engineering teams. Although this Product Manager’s duties mainly involved demonstrating product features to external clients while managing projects, they also needed a ‘hands-on’ approach to the product’s research, coding and development.

The CTO’s previous recruitment contact had failed to deliver results, so we were approached to find a solution.

Action

Based on the role’s unique ‘hands on’ and ‘hands off’ approach, DST needed to find a truly hybrid candidate by turning the search process upside down.

They looked for engineers and developers with software engineering backgrounds who’d moved into product manager roles. These candidates also needed:

  • Knowledge of deep learning frameworks – TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Jax, or MxNet
  • Programming skills with Python or C++
  • Experience leading a team in an agile environment.

By applying a clearly-defined search process, DST filtered the talent pool to find specific hybrid candidates.

Impact

  • One of the hybrid candidates successfully got the role
    and the Chief Technology Officer reported a positive experience of working with DST.
  • Inline with the company’s growth plans, DST now has an exclusive arrangement to fill upcoming data science positions.
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