Head of AI
Location: UK - Remote
Salary: up to £120k with up to 20% bonus and revenue share benefit
About the Role
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 build AI Agents across businesses you have worked in within the tech stack stated below.
What You'll Do
- Build a shared AI operating layer used across all portfolio companies
- (AI tooling, agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, governance, security)
- 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
What Success Looks Like
- A shared AI operating layer deployed across multiple businesses
- Agentic workflows active in core operational areas
- Productivity uplift across teams through AI augmentation
- New AI‑driven product revenue streams established
- Performance incentives activate once five companies reach agentic workflow deployment
About You
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 workflows
- Ability to influence and upskill engineering and product teams at scale
- Background designing agentic systems that automate complex processes
Technical Experience (Highly Valuable)
- Agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, Agents SDK)
- Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
- Cloud‑native and distributed system architecture
- Vector databases and knowledge systems
- Event‑driven and real‑time data pipelines
Why This Role?
- 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
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.