AI & AI & Automation Lead
Our client operates two established hospitality brands across London, spanning a multi-site wine bar group and a well-known South African restaurant concept. They are a founder-led business with a strong growth trajectory, competing on quality, culture, and increasingly — technology.
They are not hiring a ‘digital transformation consultant’. They are hiring a builder — someone who sees a problem on Monday and ships a solution by Friday.
The Role
This is a newly created position. You’ll work directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to identify, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions across the business — one project at a time, every week. Think of yourself as an internal AI product builder with commercial instincts.
Your first projects will likely include:
* A marketing automation machine using Claude, Notion, and other LLM tools — turning raw inputs from the team into polished LinkedIn posts, emails, and social content at the press of a button
* A hyper-personalised outbound outreach agent for local B2B prospecting — scraping Google Maps, enriching leads, verifying emails, and crafting bespoke messages for every recipient
* A vision-based stock-take app that photographs shelves and auto-populates inventory
* An AI-powered HR chatbot, trained on the employee handbook, giving staff instant answers to HR queries
* API integrations connecting core platforms into management dashboards that update automatically
* And many many more
Why This Role is Different
You will work directly with the CEO — a serial entrepreneur who has built and scaled multiple businesses across hospitality, technology, and professional services. That access is rare at this stage of a career.
You won’t be sitting in a team of 20 waiting for tickets to be assigned. You’ll be in the room where decisions get made, seeing first-hand how a founder thinks about growth, people, commercial strategy, and execution. The learning and business exposure this role offers is, frankly, worth as much as the salary.
If you’re ambitious, this is a launching pad — not just a job.
What We’re Looking For...
Must-Haves
* You have already built something — a GPT, a Claude-powered tool, a Zapier automation, an API integration, a chatbot — and you can show us what it does
* Insatiable curiosity: you learn by doing, not by waiting for someone to teach you
* Relentless work ethic: you don’t need a manager breathing down your neck to ship
* Problem-solver first, tool-agnostic second: you reverse-engineer a problem, then pick the right instrument
* Comfortable working with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT) to build and iterate rapidly without being a traditional developer
* Able to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders and translate business pain into a working prototype
Strong Advantages
* Experience with n8n, Make, Zapier or similar workflow automation tools
* Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, or building on top of LLM APIs
* Any exposure to hospitality tech stacks (POS, reservations, inventory, HR platforms)
* A portfolio of small projects you’ve shipped: side projects, client builds, or open-source contributions
* Commercial awareness — you think about ROI, not just functionality
What Success Looks Like
We expect your first working solution shipped within two weeks of starting. After that, one new solution delivered every week. We’re not interested in slide decks or discovery phases — we want you building from day one. You’ll be assessed on delivery cadence, impact, and initiative. If you perform, this role grows fast — in scope, seniority, and salary. If you don’t, it will be clear quickly.
The Deal
Salary: £35,000–£45,000 depending on experience and what you can prove
Start date: June/July 2025
Location: London (hybrid — split across sites and remote)
Probation: 2-month performance review with fast-track extension if you deliver
Reporting to CEO directly