AI & Data Science Executive Director (HR Data & Analytics)

Archer; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, collaborating with J.P. Morgan, seeks a Head of AI & Data Science for HR Data & Analytics to lead a global team turning workforce data into insights and strategic recommendations.

You will set the technical agenda, direct the full lifecycle of research, and decide where to build, reuse, or partner—balancing speed with governance across a regulated environment. You will guide the development of an AI-native operating environment, including model factories and evaluation workflows, to

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading AI and data science teams.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field required.
• Strong experience with modern AI/ML algorithms and tools.
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering and multi-agent systems.
• Strong statistical analysis and experimental design skills.
• Proficient software development in collaborative environments.
• Excellent communication and executive presence.
• Strong project management and delivery mindset.

Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on leader of a team that delivers commercial outcomes using AI and machine learning solutions across our people-focused product areas
• Direct the full research lifecycle, from framing problems and generating hypotheses through experiments, prototypes, and results that reach production
• Develop model factories and a high-bandwidth evaluation factory that create, calibrate, and improve models and agents against product benchmarks
• Advance agentic, specification-driven, and evaluation-driven development, including multi-agent orchestration deployed responsibly in a regulated environment
• Translate models into insights that help reduce costs, expand capabilities, strengthen controls, and improve employee experiences
• Promote reuse and partnership of techniques across the firm, and adopt vendor solutions where they add value
• Partner with technology teams to architect scalable, cost-effective, enterprise-quality data and analytics systems, including self-service platforms
• Align and prioritize research and development resources against the products that matter most and their measurable business impact
• Communicate the significance of the team's work to senior leaders, and pursue patents or publications where warranted
• Ensure conformance with all applicable controls, policies, and procedures

Skills

AI / Data Science leadership

Team management

Advanced degree in quantitative field

AI/ML algorithms & enterprise tools

Agentic engineering / multi-agent

Statistical analysis & experimental

Software development

Executive communication

Project management

Education

Master's or PhD in quantitative discipline

Tools

Agentic coding tools

Job description

Archer is collaborating with J.P. Morgan to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Job Description

HR Data & Analytics is a centralized global team responsible for all aspects of workforce data strategy, analytics and reporting, and governance, and includes the development of AI and machine learning based solutions. We have a vision to help make individuals, teams, and businesses at JPMC among the most engaged and productive in the world. Our mission is to deliver data, analytics, and AI that are secure and commercial to empower businesses to make better workforce decisions and enable enhanced employee experiences.

As a Head of AI & Data Science in the HR Data & Analytics team, you lead a group of data scientists who turn workforce data into insights and recommendations that business leaders use to make evidence-based people decisions. You set the technical agenda, direct the full research lifecycle across a portfolio of projects, and decide where to build, reuse, or partner — balancing fast, commercial delivery with stakeholder partnership and disciplined controls, across a global team.

Our team is building an artificial-intelligence-native operating environment — a template for how a global firm delivers artificial intelligence — which we intend to prove within our own organization before extending it more broadly. That work includes model factories that build and improve models against product benchmarks, a high-bandwidth evaluation factory that investigates edge cases and calibrates results, and agentic engineering tools deployed responsibly within a regulated environment. The guiding principle is to use AI to accelerate AI: invest in the tooling and infrastructure that let the team build and deliver faster. This role sets the vision and technical direction for that agenda and leads the people who carry it out.

Job Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on leader of a team that delivers commercial outcomes using AI and machine learning solutions across our people-focused product areas
• Direct the full research lifecycle, from framing problems and generating hypotheses through experiments, prototypes, and results that reach production
• Develop model factories and a high-bandwidth evaluation factory that create, calibrate, and improve models and agents against product benchmarks
• Advance agentic, specification-driven, and evaluation-driven development, including multi-agent orchestration deployed responsibly in a regulated environment
• Translate models into insights that help reduce costs, expand capabilities, strengthen controls, and improve employee experiences
• Promote reuse and partnership of techniques across the firm, and adopt vendor solutions where they add value
• Partner with technology teams to architect scalable, cost-effective, enterprise-quality data and analytics systems, including self-service platforms
• Align and prioritize research and development resources against the products that matter most and their measurable business impact
• Communicate the significance of the team's work to senior leaders, and pursue patents or publications where warranted
• Ensure conformance with all applicable controls, policies, and procedures

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Significant experience in AI and Data Science
• Demonstrated success managing and leading teams
• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline
• Expertise with modern artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, techniques, and software, applied to enterprise-scale solutions
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering, including agentic coding tools, specification-driven or evaluation-driven development, or multi-agent orchestration
• Practical experience with statistical data analysis and experimental design
• Practical software development experience in collaborative settings
• Excellent communication skills and strong executive presence, with credibility as a thought leader and influencer
• Strong project management skills that drive execution and delivery

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience of building automated model-development or model-evaluation pipelines
• Experience of delivering artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions within a regulated environment
• Track record of building partnerships across organizational, functional, and hierarchical boundaries
• Experience delivering self-service analytics platforms
• Track record of patents or peer-reviewed publications

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.