Head of AI

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.