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Research, develop, prototype and productize machine learning products using various AI approaches (supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, recommender systems, computer vision, natural language processing, etc.). Your passion for machine learning, curiosity, problem solving, and innovation will empower you to deliver stay up-to-date with research and to prototype new ideas quickly. Collaborate with a cross functional agile team spanning product management, engineering, user research and design to build innovative product solutions. Work closely with technology partners to leverage and improve our Machine Learning infrastructure.

Create and implement a strategy to deliver unique customer facing product experiences that enable customer engagement and retention allowing Trunk Club to be top of mind for all personal styling needs. The strategy will be expected to span and adapt to multiple platforms with unique experiences for web, mobile, and native apps as dictated by business and customer needs. Define a 1-3 year product vision that supports Trunk Club's strategic objectives with the ability to continuously adapt based on the changing business and industry landscape, with a constant focus on delivering customer and business value. Build and maintain a 12-month roadmap that communicates the focus and direction of the product, while developing a strong backlog of products/features that will help achieve the product vision by delighting the customer and providing strong business value. Provide strategic thought and direction across multiple product teams in order to ensure execution of a cohesive overall product strategy and customer experience.

When you join Trunk Club, you join the Nordstrom family. Our fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment is paired with the strong history and experience of a retail legacy. We have access to some of the greatest minds in retail and technology and are constantly creating innovative strategies to develop the ultimate apparel solutions. We welcome your adaptability, your curiosity, and your passion to contribute to our unparalleled shopping experience! At Trunk Club, we develop machine learning algorithms that enable the business to make data-driven decisions, from whom marketing targets for re-engagement credits, to which merchandise to recommend for a given customer.

Remember chatbots, the Next Big Thing of 2016? According to Sam Lessin, "the 2016 bot paradigm shift is going to be far more disruptive and interesting than the last decade's move from Web to mobile apps." And Chris Messina predicted, "you and I will be talking to brands and companies over Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and elsewhere before year's end, and will find it normal." This was exciting -- enough so that I joined Facebook as design manager for the Messenger bot platform. It was a tough decision: I wasn't ready to move on from my previous role at Google.

Trunk Club, an apparel subscription service owned by Nordstrom, has increased Pinterest engagement by more than 100 percent in recent months by embedding artificial intelligence into its digital-images marketing. AI-image search is central to its ambitions of building a data-science model that drives highly relevant product offerings to consumers across the social web. More broadly, the effort speaks to how AI search is quickly becoming the retail sector's next big digital shopping experience. "We are trying to understand how one pair of jeans plays out against another pair that was released in another season," explained Justin Hughes, vp of product development and design at Trunk Club. "We want to get really granular and understand what really works."

Chat bots are the tech du jour, and for good reason. No one likes the frustrating parts of customer service: the long hold times, multiple transfers, repeated requests for information, and unresolved issues. Bots offer the promise of personalized service -- at lower cost and larger scale -- by removing humans from the equation. There's huge potential upside for brands and consumers alike, especially now that Facebook is in the game, bringing with it the developer ecosystem and user base to make chatbots mainstream. That said, we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking chatbots, and more broadly, AI, will replace humans -- despite dystopian fantasies that machines will soon rule the world.