Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI

Outreach is hiring a Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI for a remote role open to applicants in India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

AI in this role

databricks

About Outreach Outreach, founded in 2014, is the only complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams. Outreach infuses agentic AI, conversation intelligence, and assistive AI to power hundreds of use cases across revenue motions. From new logo prospecting to expansions, deal acceleration, driving retention, and forecasting, Outreach AI automates workflows and frees sellers to focus on more strategic conversations and actions. Revenue leaders benefit from connected account visibility, performance insights, and higher forecasting accuracy across every GTM team. World leading enterprise organizations use Outreach to power their revenue teams, including Databricks, SAP, Siemens, and Verizon to name a few.

The Role

We are looking for a Director of Applied Science and Engineering to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Outreach's Knowledge Graph and contextual AI capabilities. This is a senior leadership position for someone who combines deep technical expertise in knowledge representation, graph-based learning, and reasoning systems with the ability to build, inspire, and scale a high-performing team.

You will own the end-to-end technical direction of a per-tenant contextual knowledge graph that captures the full complexity of each customer's sales environment: accounts, deals, contacts, rep behaviors, competitive landscape, and the signals buried in calls, emails, and CRM activity. This graph is the reasoning backbone of the platform, powering next-best-action recommendations, deal risk signals, coaching suggestions, competitive intelligence, and agentic AI workflows. In this role, you will set the research agenda, define the architecture, hire and grow the team, and drive measurable business impact through applied science innovation.

How we rate this

Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI at Outreach rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI is an open job at Outreach.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Hyderabad and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 14, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Outreach. Apply on Outreach

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