PROFILE OVERVIEW

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader who combines strong engineering capabilities with AI/ML expertise. As our Head of AI, you’ll work with a talented team of engineers, helping our brands with all things AI - from ideation, through MVP to production-ready solutions. Our AI projects span across brand-specific products, internal productivity tools (such as our own private ChatGPT tool), or company-level solutions for our M&A Team or others.
You’ll be be heading a small and effective team of young AI-engineers, servicing our brands with productization of AI features. This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership, offering the opportunity to shape both our AI implementations and our team’s growth. You’ll work alongside talented engineers who share your passion for innovation and technical excellence.
This role involves an operational mindset, with strong engineering expertise. You are comfortable with communicating solutions and delivering the technologies, as a team, or as an individual contributor to our brands.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong Python development skills - Python is what you feel most comfortable with
• Strong foundation in software architecture and system design - solution design is part of what you enjoy doing
• Production experience with AI/ML stack (at least some): LangChain/Haystack, the OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure OpenAI Service/AWS BedRock API, autogen, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, or other relevant libraries and frameworks;
• Experience with observability tools and leading cloud platforms
• You enjoy using Poetry, Conda, or UV for dependency management
• Database expertise (traditional and vector storage): PostgreSQL, pgvector, Chroma, Pinecone, Mongo (Atlas Vector Search), SQLAlchemy, Alembic
• Experience with AI dev tools such as: Cursor, Bolt, Copilot, or others you find improve your dev experience

• Actively develop and architect AI solutions for our brand portfolio - come up with creative solutions that can be leveraged on one or multiple of our companies.
• Write, review, and ship production-ready code - ensure that the Central AI team delivers on its promise to provide robust solutions
• Lead and mentor a team of talented AI-engineers
• Champion AI adoption in engineering and other areas. Educate teams on cutting-edge tools - you are willing to leverage and share your knowledge at an organization level
• Build and maintain our AI infrastructure and platforms with the help of our Central Cloud Operations team
• Drive technical decision-making and set engineering standards