AI Solutions Lead: Build & Scale Prototypes

FIRST; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Annual Leave

Volunteer Day

Sick Pay

Parental Leave

Wellness Stipend

Headspace Access

Life Insurance

EAP

Cycle to Work

Season Ticket Loan

Phone Allowance

Pension Enhancements

Discretionary Bonus

Job summary

FIRST is seeking an AI Solutions Lead to design and build working AI solutions, then scale successful prototypes across the company. You will bridge business, product, and technology, turning ambiguous problems into practical technical briefs and leading a growing technical team.

You will work within FIONA, FIRST's AI studio, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to drive rapid, governance-conscious delivery and hands-on execution.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in AI/product roles.
• Experience blending hands-on building with business analysis.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous problems into technical briefs.

Responsibilities

• Bridge business, product, and technology: run discovery workshops and translate ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into clear, actionable technical briefs.
• Build and design AI solutions and tools: use agentic workflows and AI coding tools to go from concept to a working proof of concept, hands-on, with lean resourcing.
• Scale what works: take AI solutions that prove out and drive their adoption across other teams and use cases at FIRST, rather than leaving them as one-off builds.
• Own solution design for AI Innovation Studio initiatives, staying close enough to the build to keep designs practical and buildable rather than theoretical.
• Contribute to foundational data/AI governance (e.g., responsible use, data-rights clarity) relevant to what gets built.
• Prioritize speed and pragmatic delivery over exhaustive engineering polish, consistent with FIONA's early-phase, momentum-building mandate.
• As the Studio grows, take on direct management of technical staff.

Skills

Python

Business analysis

Communication

Cross-functional

Mentoring

AI tooling

Discovery workshops

Tools

Claude

ChatGPT Codex

Copilot

Cursor

Job description

FIRST is seeking an AI Solutions Lead to design and build working AI solutions, then scale successful prototypes across the company. You will bridge business, product, and technology, turning ambiguous problems into practical technical briefs and leading a growing technical team.

You will work within FIONA, FIRST's AI studio, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to drive rapid, governance-conscious delivery and hands-on execution.