Designation: Head of Data & AI / Senior Manager / Director

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Experience: 12 + Years

About the job:

What You Will Own:

- Data platform architecture and delivery - the foundation that everything else depends on

- Machine learning and AI system design, from model training through to production operation

- Real-time data ingestion and processing at scale across heterogeneous hardware and markets

- All foundational technology decisions: stack, tooling, infrastructure approach

- Production reliability of every system and model the team ships

- AI product scope and packaging

- Technical relationships with Driivz's most strategically important operator accounts

- Data strategy and technology roadmap

- Teamwork with the CPO to define the art of the possible use cases

What We Are Looking For:

Non-negotiable:

- You have built a data or AI platform from 0 to 1 at a B2B SaaS or industrial technology company.

- You have shipped AI systems that execute decisions or actions in production.

- You have led a data or AI team across engineering and science disciplines.

- You are technically deep and commercially aware. You can design a data architecture in the morning and have a credible commercial conversation with a senior operator in the afternoon.

- You operate well under ambiguity. You are the person who turns the former into the latter.

Strong signal:

- EV, energy, smart grid, or industrial IoT background or a clear track record of acquiring deep domain knowledge quickly in a new technical vertical

- Production experience with agentic or autonomous AI including cost optimization and efficiency

- Industrial or IoT protocol experience: OCPP, MQTT, or equivalent, high-frequency event streams from hardware at scale

- Snowflake at production scale: schema design, real-time ingestion pipelines, ML integration, cost governance

- Confidence calibration and threshold design for AI systems that operate without human approval on every decision

- Effective cross-timezone leadership: comfortable building a high-performing team while operating as a daily peer to global commercial and CS leadership