Head of AI & Data Science, HR Analytics

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Head of AI & Data Science in the HR Data & Analytics team to lead a group of data scientists turning workforce data into insights that business leaders use to make evidence-based people decisions.

You will set the technical agenda, direct the full research lifecycle, and decide where to build, reuse, or partner, balancing fast delivery with governance across a global team. Our AI-native operating environment includes model factories and evaluation pipelines; you will

Qualifications

• Significant experience in AI and Data Science.
• Demonstrated success managing and leading teams.
• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline.
• Expertise with modern AI and ML algorithms, techniques, and software for enterprise-scale solutions.
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering, including agentic coding tools, specification-driven or evaluation-driven development, or multi-agent orchestration.
• Practical experience with statistical data analysis and experimental design.
• Practical software development experience in collaborative settings.
• Excellent communication skills and executive presence, with credibility as a thought leader and influencer.
• Strong project management skills that drive execution and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on leader of a team that delivers commercial outcomes using AI and ML solutions across our people-focused product areas.
• Direct the full research lifecycle, from framing problems and generating hypotheses through experiments, prototypes, and results that reach production.
• Develop model factories and a high-bandwidth evaluation factory that create, calibrate, and improve models and agents against product benchmarks.
• Advance agentic, specification-driven, and evaluation-driven development, including multi-agent orchestration deployed responsibly in a regulated environment.
• Translate models into insights that help reduce costs, expand capabilities, strengthen controls, and improve employee experiences.
• Promote reuse and partnership of techniques across the firm, and adopt vendor solutions where they add value.
• Partner with technology teams to architect scalable, cost-effective, enterprise-quality data and analytics systems, including self-service platforms.
• Align and prioritize research and development resources against the products that matter most and their measurable business impact.
• Communicate the significance of the team's work to senior leaders, and pursue patents or publications where warranted.
• Ensure conformance with all applicable controls, policies, and procedures.

Skills

AI & Data Science

Team leadership

Agentic engineering

Statistical analysis

Software development

Communication & presence

Project management

Education

Master's degree or PhD in quantitative discipline

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Head of AI & Data Science in the HR Data & Analytics team to lead a group of data scientists turning workforce data into insights that business leaders use to make evidence-based people decisions.

You will set the technical agenda, direct the full research lifecycle, and decide where to build, reuse, or partner, balancing fast delivery with governance across a global team. Our AI-native operating environment includes model factories and evaluation pipelines; you will