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# Director, Data Science & AI

- **Company:** Smith Hanley
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** http://jobs.smithhanley.com/index.smpl?arg=jb_apply&POST_ID=14291630

## About the Role

The methodology piece is important here. They need someone with real, hands-on advanced quantitative analytics experience, ideally from market research, insights, consulting or another client-facing research environment.

You should be able to point to experience with:

 * Conjoint / discrete choice
 * MaxDiff
 * Segmentation and clustering
 * Advanced survey methodology
 * R and applied statistics
 * Data pipelines, APIs or lightweight tool development
 * AI / LLM tools and a genuine curiosity around where they can improve research

You don't need to be a software engineer.

You do need to be technically curious and comfortable getting under the hood. They want someone who understands what is happening behind the output and doesn't treat AI, statistics or technology as a black box.

## Description

* Design conjoint/CBC, MaxDiff and segmentation studies
 * Lead complex statistical analysis in R
 * Advise research teams on methodology and study design
 * Translate complicated methods into language clients actually understand
 * Mentor analysts without formally managing a team
 * Improve and extend internal research and reporting tools
 * Explore practical applications of AI and LLMs within the research process
 * Build smarter workflows across survey data, analytics and reporting
 * Partner across teams on evolving research capabilities


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