AI Deployment Specialist

Xcede Recruitment Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede Recruitment Solutions is partnering with a financial services organisation to appoint an AI Deployment Specialist who will own the front-end and back-end of AI adoption across a live business area. You will identify and size AI use cases with business leadership, prioritise and sequence them, then lead adoption and change management to embed AI delivering measurable value.

You will work with a technical build team and define requirements, run evaluation and regression checks in a

Qualifications

• 4–7 years experience in AI/consulting or AI vendor.
• Led end-to-end AI or data science engagements, scoping, sizing value and delivering to adoption.
• Hands-on data science grounding to scope problems and challenge a technical team without coding.

Responsibilities

• Identify, size and build the business case for high-impact AI use cases.
• Prioritize and sequence use cases balancing value, feasibility and readiness.
• Own adoption end-to-end, stakeholder engagement and change programmes so AI tools are embedded.
• Track outcomes against the original business case and ensure deployments deliver measurable impact.
• Bridge between business stakeholders and the technical build team, defining requirements and running eval/regression pipelines.
• Codify successful approaches into a repeatable playbook for the wider team.

Skills

AI strategy

Stakeholder management

Change management

Requirements gathering

Data science basics

Executive communication

Job description

AI Deployment Specialist

My client, a financial services organisation is on the look for an AI Deployment Specialist to own the front end and back end of AI adoption across a live business area. You will identify and size AI use cases with business leadership, prioritise and sequence them, then lead the change management and adoption work needed to get them embedded and delivering measurable value.

You will work alongside a technical build team rather than being part of it. The role is not hands‑on engineering: you need to be technical enough to define requirements, run evaluation and regression checks in a low‑code or no‑code way, interpret results and challenge the technical approach, without writing code or raising pull requests yourself.

A live example of the type of use case in scope: automating a client onboarding process that currently takes circa twenty four months to complete manually, involving document handling, data extraction, policy validation and compliance checks.

What you will do

• Work with business leadership to identify, size and build the case for high‑impact AI use cases


• Prioritse and sequence use cases, balancing value, feasibility and organisational readiness


• Own adoption end to end, stakeholder engagement, training and change programmes so AI tools become embedded, not shelfware


• Track outcomes against the original business case and ensure deployments translate into measurable impact


• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the technical build team, defining requirements and running eval/regression pipelines


• Codify what works into a repeatable playbook the wider team can reuse

What you will bring

• 4 to 7 years' total experience, including time at a top‑tier consulting firm or AI vendor


• A track record leading end‑to‑end AI or data science engagements, scoping, sizing value and owning delivery through to adoption


• Enough hands‑on data science / ML grounding to scope problems credibly, judge feasibility and challenge a technical team, without needing to build full time


• Strong change management and stakeholder skills, able to drive adoption across leadership and operational teams


• Commercial fluency, comfortable framing AI work in terms of business value, ROI and operational impact


• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, including in a governance‑heavy environment


• Comfort operating in a lean team, going deep on content rather than just running process

Desirable

• Experience across varied industries rather than a single sector


• Private equity or portfolio value creation experience