Head of Artificial Intelligence

Head of AI – SaaS

Salary: £130,000 – £160,000 + bonus + Equity

Location: London (Remote / Hybrid)

A scaling SaaS organisation is creating a new senior leadership position to accelerate its AI ambition and embed artificial intelligence at the heart of its product and business strategy. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping the next generation of AI-powered capabilities across the organisation.

As Head of AI, you will lead the organisation's end-to-end AI agenda - defining strategy, shaping how generative, agentic, and operational AI are embedded into the SaaS product suite, and building a high-impact AI function to deliver it.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define the organisation's AI strategy, aligning capabilities with long-term product and business goals
  • Build and lead a new AI function, uplifting and integrating existing teams and capabilities
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to design AI-enabled features, workflows, and customer experiences
  • Drive adoption of generative, agentic, and operational AI across diverse product areas
  • Influence senior stakeholders to identify and prioritise commercially meaningful AI opportunities
  • Establish governance, standards, and operating models for responsible and scalable AI delivery

Skills & Experience

  • Demonstrated leadership in defining and delivering AI strategy within SaaS, technology, or product-led environments
  • Strong understanding of AI platforms, GenAI tooling, and MLOps best practices (without needing to be hands-on)
  • Experience converting AI opportunities into impactful product features and business outcomes at scale
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities, confident engaging at executive level
  • Proven track record of building and scaling AI, ML, or data-driven teams and elevating organisational capability

**Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applicants not all submissions will receive feedback.

Job Details

Company
Formula Recruitment
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted