VP of AI and Machine Learning
Location: remote (UK based only)
Salary: up to £120,000
Job Purpose
We are building the DNA for Work: the data infrastructure powering fair, transparent, and AI-driven workforce decisions. You'll shape and scale the platform that makes this possible.
You'll lead our AI roadmap, from model design to data architecture, ensuring our technology remains differentiated, defensible, and enterprise ready. You will play a pivotal role in defining how our proprietary AI and platform evolves, turning complex, messy organisational data into intelligence that powers fair compensation, pay transparency, and workforce agility.
Combining strategy with hands-on leadership, you'll build the team, systems, and innovation engine that drive our next phase of growth and position us at the forefront of AI in work design.
Responsibilities
* Translating product vision into a feasible, scalable AI and ML roadmap that deliver measurable business value and align with commercial goals
* Designing and scaling of our AI and Machine Learning Models, combining leadership with hands-on execution
* Ensuring reliable and responsible ML systems through strong operations and governance
* Owning cross-functional alignment to ensure ML solutions are developed collaboratively and translated seamlessly into the core product experience
* Leading and scaling high performing ML Team
* Representing our technology to customers, partners & investors and across the company
* Play a key role in our senior leadership team
Experience required:
* In depth AI/ML & NLP architectural background
* Experience in leading and growing ML/Data teams
* A “product focused” approach with a background in data-heavy SaaS and/or B2B Enterprise platforms
* A collaborative, skilled communicator with ability to influence non-technical audiences.
* A commercially savvy with a startup mindset: hands-on, innovative, pragmatic, delivery-oriented
* A proactive, hands-on mindset — comfortable working at pace and in a fast-changing environment.
* Clear and confident communication skills, able to explain technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
* Strong collaboration and stakeholder skills — you listen well and work closely with others to solve problems.
* A focus on delivery and outcomes, with a practical and flexible approach.
* Motivation to be part of a scaling start-up where things evolve quickly and you can have a real impact.
Start-up life is not for everyone! To really thrive with us you will be 'Start-up ready'. You are naturally proactive, open to change, have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, happy to go beyond your brief, enjoy working at pace and are comfortable with ambiguity.