AI Innovation Lead — Prototyping & Rapid Use Cases

VANRATH; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

VANRATH is recruiting an AI Innovation Manager for a London-based, hybrid role on a 6-month contract. You will lead a small autonomous team to rapidly prototype AI solutions, turning ambiguous business challenges into concrete use cases and measurable pilots with commercial value.

You’ll bring consulting pedigree and hands-on experience with AI technologies, delivering prototypes and tests against real business use cases while engaging senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience from leading strategy, management or technology consultancy.
• Hands-on experience building AI-enabled solutions, prototypes or automations.
• Strong problem-solving and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify valuable AI and automation opportunities across Commercial and Operations.
• Turn loosely defined problems into clear, deliverable use cases.
• Build and test AI prototypes, agents and automations at pace.
• Use AI-led development approaches to accelerate delivery.
• Measure pilots against commercial outcomes like revenue, cost and efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging tools and recommend progression to production.
• Present demonstrations, results and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Consulting experience

Hands-on AI

First-principles thinking

Commercially minded

Communication skills

Tools

Agentforce

AWS Bedrock

Microsoft Copilot

Databricks

Snowflake

Cursor

Job description

VANRATH is recruiting an AI Innovation Manager for a London-based, hybrid role on a 6-month contract. You will lead a small autonomous team to rapidly prototype AI solutions, turning ambiguous business challenges into concrete use cases and measurable pilots with commercial value.

You’ll bring consulting pedigree and hands-on experience with AI technologies, delivering prototypes and tests against real business use cases while engaging senior stakeholders.