Sylvia Bier

This individual will operate at the intersection of investments, data science, and AI, partnering closely with senior leadership and investment teams to embed scalable, practical solutions into day-to-day workflows. The goal is not just building tools—but driving real adoption and unlocking measurable alpha.

AI & Data Strategy

• Design and implement a scalable data and AI framework to support investment and asset management decisions

• Identify high-impact use cases where AI can accelerate insights, improve efficiency, and enhance returns

• Partner with investment leadership to align data initiatives with business strategy

Investment Insights & Deal Enablement

• Leverage AI and data analytics to enhance deal sourcing, screening, and underwriting processes

• Generate actionable insights from portfolio and market data to support investment decisions

• Expand the firm’s funnel of opportunities through smarter data aggregation and analysis

Data Infrastructure & Integration

• Work with large, unstructured datasets (e.g., deal files, SharePoint data) to structure, clean, and operationalize information

• Build or implement tools that make data more accessible, reliable, and usable across teams

• Enable faster and more cost-effective data processing using modern AI approaches

Adoption & Change Management

• Drive adoption of new tools and workflows across investment and operational teams

• Design solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing processes with minimal disruption

• Influence stakeholders and build consensus among senior partners and cross-functional teams

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with investments, asset management, compliance, and finance teams to identify opportunities and align priorities

• Serve as a bridge between technical capabilities and business needs

• 2-4+ years of experience across data science, analytics, or AI, with meaningful exposure to business or investment environments

• Strong understanding of how to apply AI and data tools to drive revenue, insights, or investment outcomes

• Experience working with large, unstructured datasets and building practical data solutions

• Demonstrated ability to build or deploy AI-driven tools or workflows (not just theoretical knowledge)

• Strong business acumen with an understanding of investment processes (real estate, private equity, or credit strongly preferred)

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption across senior teams

• Combination of technical depth and front-office mindset

• Direct impact on investment performance and alpha generation

• Greenfield opportunity to build AI/data capabilities from the ground up

• High visibility with senior leadership and investment partners

• Focus on practical AI application, not theoretical or back-office reporting

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Associate Director, Digital Marketing - (Head of Digital Experience / Website)

For our direct client, a highly successful and well-established company at a pivotal moment in its digital evolution—including the launch of major new eCommerce initiatives—we are seeking an experienced digital marketing leader to join their team. This newly created Associate Director role offers significant growth potential and will play a critical role in modernizing the customer journey and driving measurable business impact.

At its core, this role is about end-to-end ownership of the company’s digital experience, with a primary focus on website strategy, performance, and conversion. The ideal candidate will combine strategic vision with hands-on execution to transform the website into a best-in-class, revenue-driving platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the company’s website as a core digital asset, with full accountability for performance, user experience, conversion rates, and ongoing optimization.
• Define and lead the website roadmap, including UX enhancements, content strategy, personalization, and feature development in support of business and eCommerce goals.
• Drive digital conversion and optimization strategy, improving lead quality, funnel performance, and revenue generation.
• Design and execute A/B and multivariate testing across the website and digital funnels to continuously improve performance.
• Partner closely with IT and development teams to ensure seamless execution of site enhancements, functionality, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with paid media teams to ensure SEM, SEO, display, and social efforts effectively drive high-quality traffic and align with on-site conversion strategies.
• Translate web analytics and customer behavior data into clear insights, KPIs, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Play a central leadership role in the company’s upcoming eCommerce launch, ensuring the website is optimized as a primary sales and engagement channel.
• Manage and hold accountable external partners, including web development vendors, UX consultants, and media agencies.
• Lead and develop a small team while remaining deeply hands-on in execution.

Experience and Skills Desired:

• 7–10+ years of progressive experience in digital marketing within a consumer-facing environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of website strategy and performance, with strong expertise in CRO, UX optimization, and digital analytics.
• Proven track record of driving measurable improvements in website conversion and customer journey performance.
• Experience influencing or partnering on paid media strategy; strong understanding of how acquisition channels integrate with on-site experience.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar CRM platforms; GA4 required, Tableau a plus.
• Proven ability to lead complex digital initiatives end-to-end, including direct collaboration with technical teams.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in luxury goods, hospitality, travel, or premium consumer brands strongly preferred.

Why This Role:

• Newly created position with true ownership of the company’s digital and customer experience
• High-impact, highly visible role shaping the future of digital and eCommerce for a respected luxury brand
• Opportunity to build and optimize a modern, high-performing website that directly drives revenue and customer engagement
• Hybrid work model (3 days onsite) and strong benefits; collaborative culture with long-term employee tenure and loyalty

Company HQ is in the Norwalk, CT area, and in-person collaboration (3 days/week) is essential for success in this role. Relocation support will be considered.

If you’re a digitally fluent leader who thrives on owning and optimizing the full website experience—and wants to make a tangible impact—this is an exceptional opportunity.

Send your resume today for immediate consideration.

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Our direct client a large enterprise organization is seeking an HR Technology Project Manager to deliver impactful reporting solutions, dashboards, and data products that support business decision-making. The role focuses on automating recurring reporting tasks and building self-service solutions that reduce ad hoc data requests - bridging HR line-of-business stakeholders and a centralized HR Technology Center of Excellence.

• Serve as the primary liaison between HR business customers and the HR Technology Center of Excellence, translating complex business challenges into technology solutions
• Design, build, test, and optimize HR data products, dashboards, and reporting solutions with a focus on automation and self-service enablement
• Leverage advanced analytics platform features - including AI-assisted reporting and analytics agents - to enhance HR data capabilities
• Develop comprehensive business requirements and functional specifications for application development, configuration, and reporting
• Conduct workflow analyses, evaluate system changes, and lead dashboard and reporting design with an emphasis on a simple, intuitive user experience
• Execute testing and QA activities to ensure accuracy, reliability, and integrity of all reporting and analytics deliverables
• Follow SDLC, change control, SOX, and audit procedures to maintain compliance and governance standards

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Human Resources, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience with enterprise-wide HR systems
• Experience managing multiple, multi-stage technical projects and programs end-to-end
• Strong background in dashboard and reporting design, business requirements development, and workflow analysis
• Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office; strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with testing and QA of reporting and analytics solutions

• Experience with Oracle HCM and FAIDP (formerly FDI/FAW)
• Familiarity with iCIMS or other applicant tracking systems
• Experience with Monday.com or similar work management platforms

• Employment type: Full-time, permanent
• Location: Hybrid (4 days office, 1 remote)
• Department: HR Technology
• Reports to: HR Technology leadership

• Build and scale MLOps pipelines across the full model lifecycle
• Help productionize AI/ML and GenAI (LLM) workloads
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS)
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for ML and platform services
• Partner closely with ML engineers to bring models into production
• Drive automation, reliability, and performance across the platform
• Implement monitoring, governance, and security for AI workloads

• 15+ years of experience in MLOps, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Strong, hands-on MLOps experience in production environments (key priority)
• Deep experience with AWS (SageMaker preferred)
• Expertise with Kubernetes/EKS and containerized environments
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
• Strong scripting skills (Python or similar) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Exposure to Generative AI / LLMs is a big plus
• Comfortable working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment

• Opportunity to shape and scale AI infrastructure at a growing fintech
• High-impact, high-visibility role working across teams
• Strong compensation: $180K–$230K base + bonus + equity
• Hybrid model: 4 days onsite / 1 day remote (NYC area)