[Corpora-List] Head of NLP - London

[Osvaldo Spadano]

Head of NLP

The Fizzback Group (www.fizzback.com) is one of the fastest growing
companies in customer experience management. We provide a technology
based research & analytics service that helps consumer facing businesses
change the way they capture, analyse and act on customer feedback. 

Backed by a well known Venture Capital firm, we are pursuing rapid
expansion plans, both in terms of staff and new clients. In order to
deliver on these plans we are looking to hire a Head of the Natural
Language Processing (NLP) team and related services.

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for making a real impact,
leading innovation and improvements, creating a superb team and
fostering external relationships. With our funding, prospects,
entrepreneurial culture and stage of existence this is a truly exciting
time to join us.

Location: Central London, Leicester Square
Type: permanent/full-time
Salary: Highly competitive + pension contribution and private medical
insurance



__Position Description and Responsibilities__:

This is a senior position that requires strong academic and industrial
experience. You will be responsible for all aspects of linguistic
related activities and give clear guidance to the team. You will be
responsible of fulfilling the demand from three different streams:
Research & Development, delivery of service to new clients and support
of existing services. Since you will be working on key components of our
core technology platform, you will have the unique opportunity to
significantly impact on the success of our services and company. You
will also be responsible for:

+  Continuously finding ways of improving the NLP service within a
Service Oriented Architecture
+  Planning and manage the execution of roadmap and client driven
requirements
+  Defining better ways of quickly and reliably deploying NLP services
to new Clients
+  Defining, using, standardising and improving adherence to best
practices
+  Providing linguistic, innovation and execution leadership to the
members of the NLP team



__Job Requirement / Profile__:

+  Excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) theory and
practice and statistical methods; in particular experience in the field
of Information Extraction and Machine Learning techniques
+  Managerial and leadership experience, with a flair of building a
stimulating and creative environment, where innovation is encouraged,
plans executed reliably and efficiently. Ability to manage and retain
talents is paramount
+  Strong  verbal and written communications skills
+  MSc. PhD in related area an advantage
+  Experience in developing NLP tools and applications using existing
frameworks and architectures
+  Hard working, with high energy, self-motivation and initiative
+  Good programming background (i.e. Java and  XML)



To apply please email your CV and cover letter to
job-headnlp at fizzback.com

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