AI Director: Production Systems & Strategy (Remote)

Futurice; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Mentoring

Knowledge-sharing sessions

Remote-friendly working

Private health insurance

Pension contributions

Wellbeing support

Holiday entitlement (25 days +)

Job summary

Futurice UK seeks a senior AI practitioner to lead technical direction and stay hands-on, advising senior clients and helping build the next generation of our AI capability.

The role covers technical leadership, consulting, new business and growing the team, with responsibilities spanning architecture, production AI, and governance. Flexible remote-first work across the UK and EU, with a strong emphasis on mentorship and growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology or equivalent depth of experience.
• Senior, client‑facing experience.
• Recent experience delivering AI systems into production.
• Experience in regulated environments and/or on platform and data modernisation.
• Evidence of expertise through open‑source contributions, published work, speaking or similar.
• Experience shaping or productising technology offerings.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for AI and data work across Futurice UK.
• Architect and build production AI systems, from agentic apps to data platforms.
• Establish how we evaluate, observe and improve AI systems with quality, cost, latency and risk metrics.
• Advise senior clients on AI strategy, operating models and journey from pilot to production.
• Design security, privacy, governance and responsible AI from the outset.
• Shape opportunities from early qualification through solution design, estimation and pitches.
• Develop UK AI capability through mentoring, training, hiring, writing and speaking.
• Collaborate with the wider Futurice AI community across Europe.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI production

Python

SQL

Consulting

Mentoring

Open-source

Job description

Futurice UK seeks a senior AI practitioner to lead technical direction and stay hands-on, advising senior clients and helping build the next generation of our AI capability.

The role covers technical leadership, consulting, new business and growing the team, with responsibilities spanning architecture, production AI, and governance. Flexible remote-first work across the UK and EU, with a strong emphasis on mentorship and growth.