Head of AI

Location: UK - Remote

Salary: up to £120k with up to 20% bonus and revenue share benefit

Our client is undergoing a major transformation across a group of seven businesses. They are now hiring a Head of AI to lead the shift toward becoming fully AI native, agent driven organisations.

This is a rare opportunity to design, develop and deliver an AI operating model at portfolio scale, embedding AI across products, operations, engineering and commercial functions.

You are currently at a Technical Architect or Technical Lead level that has built AI Agents across businesses you have worked in within the tech stack stated below.

• Build a shared AI operating layer used across all portfolio companies
• Lead the rollout of agentic workflows in customer support, engineering, finance, product and revenue operations
• Implement an AI enabled software development lifecycle (AI coding assistants, automated QA, accelerated Jira to production workflows)
• Upskill engineering teams in LLM integration, agent design, RAG, AI architecture and prompt engineering
• Identify and launch new AI product opportunities once transformation milestones are met
• Establish portfolio wide AI governance, ensuring responsible, secure and cost efficient AI adoption

• Agentic workflows active in core operational areas
• Productivity uplift across teams through AI augmentation
• Performance incentives activate once five companies reach agentic workflow deployment

We're looking for a senior AI leader with experience driving large scale or multi organisation AI transformation.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Deep experience building LLM based systems and AI agents
• Strong knowledge of RAG, vector databases and orchestration frameworks
• Experience delivering AI enabled software development workflowsAbility to influence and upskill engineering and product teams at scale
• Background designing agentic systems that automate complex processes

• Cloud native and distributed system architecture
• Vector databases and knowledge systems

• Work across multiple software companies, shaping their AI future
• Have end to end ownership of a portfolio wide AI transformation
• Lead one of the most forward thinking agentic initiatives in the VMS space
• Competitive compensation with additional incentive structures tied to impact