San Francisco, California

Email: daniel at daniel-sternberg.com | LinkedIn


Professional Experience

Discordant Intelligence LLC

Owner - Fractional Data and AI Executive and Advisor | Feb 2025 - present

Taking a partial career break and helping early and growth-stage startups get AI and data off the ground.

Notion

Head of Data + AI | August 2022 – Jan 2025

Led 75+ person AI + Data org, overseeing Data Science, Platform, Engineering, and AI teams.

Launched industry-leading RAG search features, generative AI and assistant capabilities at scale.

Supported data insights for 250+ person Engineering and Product organization.

Managed $XXM data infrastructure, AI and analytics budget.

Gusto

Head of Data | May 2021 – July 2022

Led centralized data function of >50 data scientists, data and BI engineers and analysts serving analytical insights and deploying ML across Product, GTM and customer experience teams.

Head of Data Science | June 2017 – May 2021

Grew data science team from inception to 30 data scientists and analysts and built a culture of using data to inform product and the business. Built and scaled experimentation tooling, culture and practices.Built and deployed ML models to support growth, prevent fraud and manage credit risk, including significant IC contributions.

Manager, Data Science & Data Engineering | June 2016 – June 2017