Head of Artificial Intelligence

Head of AI Implementation Salary Circa: Base £105,000London - 2 days a week A mission-led organisation is looking for a Head of AI Implementation to turn its appetite for AI into practical changes in how people work. There’s an established AI Centre of Excellence, budget in place and pilots underway. The opportunity now is to help teams move faster, redesign processes and show where AI is making a measurable difference.This is a business-facing leadership role. You’ll spend time with people across the organisation, from frontline teams to senior leaders, understanding how work gets done and building agreement on what should change. You’ll lead the Centre of Excellence and partner with an AI Technical Lead on technical design and delivery.What you’ll doLead the cultural change. Build relationships across the organisation, bring people with different priorities and levels of confidence in AI along with you, and help teams build the skills to use AI in their everyday work.Improve how work gets done. Work with business teams to understand workflows, including those that have never been documented. Identify where AI could reduce manual effort or improve outcomes, and help teams redesign the process around what works.Make responsible AI easier to adopt. Build a clear, risk-based route to approval so low-risk uses can move quickly and complex or higher-risk proposals get the right scrutiny. Set practical standards for how teams use data and manage AI throughout its lifecycle.Get promising pilots into everyday use. Agree success measures upfront, use the evidence to decide what to stop or scale, and make sure successful services have a business owner and ongoing support.Set direction for the Centre of Excellence. Lead and develop the team, help business and technology leaders prioritise the most valuable opportunities, and report on adoption, benefits and risk.What you’ll bringA track record of leading significant organisational change and influencing senior stakeholders with different priorities and risk appetites.Experience putting AI governance into practice, with examples of how you made decisions and approvals clearer, faster or more proportionate.Evidence of taking AI pilots into live, business-owned services and measuring the benefits.A practical understanding of generative AI, large language models and AI agents, including their limitations, data requirements and risks. You’ll use that judgement to guide decisions and work with technical specialists.Experience leading and developing a team and helping people across an organisation adopt new tools and ways of working.If you’ve helped an organisation change how it works with AI, we’d like to hear from you. Tell us what you changed, how you brought people with you and what improved as a result.