Director, Text-to-Speech Synthesis Research

📋 Description

• Own the TTS research and model roadmap — decide which technical directions can materially move
• Drive advances across neural audio modeling, prosody and expressiveness, controllability
• Stay deeply technical: review research, challenge assumptions, design experiments, diagnose model
• Build evaluation and benchmarking that explains why models improve, not just whether they did —
• Lead a mix of individual contributors and tech lead managers. Hire and develop both, hold an
• Partner with engineering and product leadership on ship-readiness, and represent Deepgram's TTS

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in modern TTS, speech generation, or audio generative modeling, with a track record
• Command of the modern speech-generation stack and the open problems behind naturalness
• A history of setting research direction under genuine uncertainty: prioritizing experiments
• Experience leading researchers and research engineers through other technical leaders — developing
• AI as your default mode of work, not an occasional tool. You've rebuilt how you and your team
• The ability to make complex technical tradeoffs legible to product, engineering, and executive

🎁 Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus
• Estimated Base Salary $262.6K – $328.3K for San Francisco, NYC, Seattle
• Estimated Base Salary $213K – $266.3K for every other US location