AI Engineering Lead

Sidetrade; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions provider in the UK is seeking an AI Engineering Lead to spearhead a high-impact initiative focused on deploying internal autonomous agents. This role requires collaboration across all functions to identify automation opportunities and deliver measurable business results. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience in AI projects, excellent stakeholder management, and a strong technical background in B2B SaaS environments. Join a dynamic team and contribute to redefining how enterprises secure and accelerate cash flow.

Qualifications

• Experience in owning and delivering AI initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders and align across functions.
• Proven track record in driving measurable results in software programs.

Responsibilities

• Own the internal autonomous agents program and its delivery.
• Define high-impact use cases with business leaders.
• Structure projects with clear timelines and success metrics.

Job description

Sidetrade (Euronext Growth: ALBFR.PA) is an AI company redefining how enterprises secure and accelerate cash flow. At the core of its applications is Aimie, Sidetrade’s agentic AI, trained on more than $7.7trillion in B2B transactions.

Sidetrade’s AI-Powered Order-to-Cash Platform transforms financial operations, helping leading enterprises increase revenue, protect profitability, and optimize working capital, positioned as a Gartner™ Magic Quadrant™ Leader since 2022.

Powered by a proprietary Order-to-Cash Data Lake and domain expertise, Aimie continuously learns and operates autonomously across the Order-to-Cash. This co-worker drives agility, informs decision-making, and ensures reliable execution. Aimie enables finance, sales, and customer-facing teams to unlock working capital and strengthen resilience. Sidetrade supports businesses in 85 countries and employs 450 people across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

For more information, visit us at www.sidetrade.com and follow us on LinkedIn @Sidetrade.

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Mission:

Sidetrade is launching a brand-new, high-impact engineering initiative to deploy internal autonomous agents across the organisation. These agents will automate high-volume workflows and fundamentally change how teams operate across every business function, including Customer Success, Finance, Product, Professional Services, Marketing, Communications, Sales, and Operations.

As AI Engineering Lead

you own this initiative end to end. You are accountable for defining the vision, shaping the roadmap, and driving delivery across multiple agentic initiatives in parallel. You will prioritise use cases based on business impact, align senior stakeholders across functions, and ensure agents are delivered, adopted, and producing measurable results.

You act as the single point of ownership between business leaders, AI Engineers, and executive sponsors. This is a foundational role where you establish how internal AI products are framed, governed, delivered, and scaled, turning emerging AI capabilities into repeatable operational leverage.

This is a rare greenfield opportunity to lead a company-wide applied AI program with direct impact on productivity, execution speed, and decision quality. You will combine product leadership, program execution, and technical fluency to shape how Sidetrade operationalises AI in a fast-paced B2B SaaS environment, with systems that teams rely on every day and leadership can clearly measure.

What you’ll be doing:

Own the internal autonomous agents program

• Own the roadmap, scope, and delivery of all internal agent initiatives across department.
• Structure the program into clear projects with timelines, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics
• Ensure consistent delivery standards across multiple agent use case

Partner with business leaders to define high-impact use cases

• Work closely with department heads and business owners to identify automation opportunities
• Translate business needs into clear problem statements, priorities, and success criteria
• Ensure use cases are realistic, valuable, and aligned with company objectives`
• Ensure use cases are realistic, valuable, and aligned with company objectives
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