AI Designer - Hybrid - Inside IR35

Location: Leeds/Bradford (Hybrid - 2-3 days per week onsite)

Contract: 6 months

The Role

We are seeking an experienced AI Designer to assess, shape and design AI and Copilot solutions, acting as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

You will be responsible for identifying high-value AI opportunities, designing AI-enabled workflows and ensuring solutions are feasible, ethical, scalable and aligned with governance and operational requirements. This role combines business analysis, service design, AI solution design and stakeholder engagement within a large-scale enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess and shape AI and Copilot use cases aligned to strategic business objectives.
• Analyse business processes, workflows and decision points to identify opportunities for AI-driven improvements.
• Design AI-enabled workflows, prompt patterns, user interactions and human-in-the-loop operating models.
• Evaluate solution feasibility, data readiness, technical constraints and operational impacts.
• Define value propositions, success criteria and measurable outcomes for AI initiatives.
• Support experimentation, prototyping and MVP definition alongside delivery teams.
• Map end-to-end business processes, data dependencies and governance requirements.
• Ensure responsible AI principles, including transparency, explainability and appropriate safeguards, are Embedded within designs.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder engagement sessions and requirements gathering activities.
• Produce design artefacts, reusable patterns and documentation to support scalable AI adoption.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience delivering digital, data or AI initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts including Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, automation and decision-support systems.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot and AI technologies.
• Ability to translate business challenges into practical AI-enabled solutions and service designs.
• Experience designing end-to-end AI workflows, prompts, guardrails and human oversight models.
• Strong process mapping, business analysis and user journey design skills.
• Experience assessing data quality, readiness and suitability for AI use cases.
• Experience facilitating workshops, stakeholder interviews and co-design sessions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, risk management and governance frameworks.

Mandatory Microsoft Experience

Candidates must demonstrate strong hands-on experience across the Microsoft ecosystem, including:

• Copilot Studio
• Power Apps
• Dataverse
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure
• Foundry environments
• Building and integrating AI agents
• API integration and enterprise platform connectivity

Desirable Experience

• Financial Services experience or experience working within other regulated industries.
• Knowledge of regulatory, compliance and governance requirements relating to AI solutions.
• Service Design, User Experience (UX) or Customer Journey Mapping expertise.
• Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of AI ethics, fairness, transparency and accountability principle