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# Head of Machine Learning at Hightouch

- **Company:** Hightouch
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/5775517004

## Job description

## About Hightouch

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.

Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.

At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

## About the Role

We are looking for an engineering leader to lead machine learning efforts across Hightouch. While hundreds of companies use Hightouch today to sync data into their SaaS systems to automate and improve operations, there’s a lot of surface area we haven’t touched in helping companies figuring out which customers to message, what content to put in messages, and when to send messages. A lot of this work today is done manually through intuition and guesswork, and we believe that adding machine learning could have a step function impact for our customers. And given our access to data warehouses and databases, Hightouch is perfectly placed to make use of a company’s customer data in building a powerful intelligence layer.

At Hightouch, our engineering leaders serve as both active technical voices and strong people managers. The key outcomes we are looking for from this role include:

- Product Development: Lead the team in roadmapping and executing successful development of significant features and products as required to drive the business forward. Uphold a high technical bar, while making pragmatic tradeoffs
- Pace: Through a combination of leadership and technical expertise, improve the pace of execution of the team
- Recruiting: Be responsible for growing the team, including identifying needs, deciding how to evaluate candidates, and ensuring we hire high impact team members
- Reliability: Against the uphill battle of high growth/scale, up-level the team on reliability, resulting in fewer incidents, catching our own issues before our customers do, and a strong incident management hygiene
- People: Foster growth of team members and ensure strong engagement and motivation

Some of the problems we’ll be working on include:

- Personalization and Product Recommendation: There are often many options for what content a company could message a user with, including which products to show from catalogues. Given this large state space, how can Hightouch help personalize messages with the most relevant content for each user?
- Probabilistic Identity Resolution: Many of our customers have multiple datasets and sources of information on their users. How do we stitch these datasets together and decide which profiles are from the same user or household?
- Content Generation: Particularly with recent advances in LLMs, how can we help marketers generate text, images, and creatives that are compelling to their customers?
- ML Infrastructure: Building the infrastructure to support model training and inference at scale for some of the largest companies in the world.

## What We Offer

We are looking for talented, intellectually curious, and motivated individuals who are interested in tackling the problems above. This is a senior role, but we focus on impact and potential for growth more than years of experience. The salary range for this position is $230,000 - $400,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10 year post-termination exercise window.

We have limited inbound applications to one application per candidate. You will be auto-rejected if you apply to multiple roles. Please only apply to the position you are most qualified for. E-Verify Statement

Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

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## About Hightouch

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hightouch is an agentic marketing platform powered by a composable Customer Data Platform (CDP) that enables marketers to build and execute personalized, omnichannel campaigns using real-time data and AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; latest round of $150M raised in April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Kashish Gupta and Tejas Manohar

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Customer Data Platform (CDP), Marketing Technology, AI Agents
- Target customers: B2B and B2C enterprises, mid-market companies
- Mission: “Modernize enterprise marketing with revolutionary data and AI technology.”

## Products & Services
- **Composable CDP**: A Customer Data Platform that connects directly to an organization’s existing data warehouse (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) for real-time audience segmentation, activation, and governance – all without copying data into a separate system.
- **Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP)**: AI agents that help marketers plan, create, and execute personalized campaigns across performance and lifecycle marketing. Agents generate ads, emails, and journeys using brand assets and customer data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2.75B as of April 29, 2026 (per Tracxn)
- **Total Funding**: $322M raised across multiple rounds (Pre-Seed to Series D)
- **Key Metrics**: 803 paying customers, 9.99B+ decisions powered by AI, 7.36T records synced
- **Notable Investors**: ICONIQ Growth, Sapphire Ventures, Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, **Databricks** (strategic investment), Afore Capital
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named a **Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms** (2026)
  - Named a **Strong Performer** by Forrester
  - Listed in **Redpoint Ventures’ 2026 InfraRed 100**
  - Headcount grew **65.3% YoY** to ~359 employees
  - Expanded to 11 countries with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, and Denver

## Competitive Advantages
- **Composable architecture** – sits on top of a company’s existing data warehouse, eliminating the need to move data into a separate legacy CDP.
- **AI agents grounded in brand context** – agents have access to customer data, performance history, and brand guidelines, producing on-brand, personalized campaigns at scale.
- **Real-time, omnichannel orchestration** with a no-code audience builder and 300+ integrations.
- **Enterprise-grade security and governance** – data never leaves the warehouse; customers control governance.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first product evolution** – expanding the Agentic Marketing Platform to automate more of the campaign lifecycle (insights, creative, execution).
- **Global enterprise expansion** – building sales teams in APAC (Japan, India, Australia) and deepening presence in EMEA.
- **Deepening data cloud partnerships** (Snowflake, Databricks) and strengthening the partner ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of *Kindness*, *Efficient Execution*, and *Forever Hungry*. Named one of **America’s Best Startup Employers** by Forbes.
- **Work Model**: *Hub & Remote friendly* – flexibility with offices in SF, NYC, London, Paris, Denver, and more. For office-based employees, free lunch Monday–Friday and a $150/month commuter benefit.
- **Benefits**:
  - Competitive compensation with meaningful equity
  - 401k (US) / retirement plans (international)
  - Health benefits covering 100% of employee premiums and 80% for dependents (US)
  - $100/month wellness stipend
  - Home office and connectivity support
  - Professional development budget
  - Flexible PTO
  - Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents (US)
- **Engineering culture**: Fast-paced small-team environment; open roles across distributed systems, AI agents, streaming, and developer productivity.

## Sources
1. [hightouch.com](https://hightouch.com/)
2. [hightouch.com/careers](https://hightouch.com/careers)
3. [hightouch.com/about](https://hightouch.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hightouchio)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/hightouch/__XxqJKKRE0rjJAMk_VRMOnKQW-3iqHl40EfMcC7KoGao)

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