Head of Data Science

Beamery; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI platform in HR technology is seeking a Director for AI and Data Science. The role involves defining the AI strategy, delivering impactful AI systems, and managing a diverse data team. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience leading teams in complex B2B environments. This role is hybrid, with an office based in London.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams at scale (10 people).
• Strong track record of delivering AI-driven products in B2B or enterprise SaaS.
• Expertise in engaging with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement AI and data science strategy.
• Oversee AI project portfolio delivery from research to production.
• Lead and support a multi-disciplinary data team.

Skills

Leadership in multi-disciplinary teams

AI-driven product delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Applied Machine Learning Technologies

Strategic and pragmatic mindset

Job description

ABOUT BEAMERY

Beamerys mission is to create equal access to work skills and careers. We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions by accelerating their recruiting processes unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities enabling smarter upskilling initiatives and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire and redeploy over a million people annually.

Our product is used by Fortune 2000 organizations globally and enables users across 100 countries to make smarter talent decisions and close skills gaps. Read more about our work here .

Whats ahead and why its an exciting time to join the team :

Deepening our native integrations with SAP Workday Microsoft and LinkedIn to seamlessly embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made.

Embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the futurepowering workforce strategies internal mobility and skills forecasting.

Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools make fairer decisions and expand access to opportunity at scale.

But its not all about creating high-quality products we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Beamery Edge builds a data and computation environment for large-scale experimentation with unique data assets. We combine data analytics and science to develop a multimodal knowledge base that draws on both structured and unstructured sources enabling solutions such as information extraction entity resolution graph-based embeddings and search. Youll be part of a hands‑on globally distributed group tackling innovative R&D challenges that directly impact customers.

Our Technology Stack : Python Agentic tools (Autogen Semantic Kernel LangChain) SQL MongoDB Third-party LLM APIs LiteLLM MLflow Google Cloud Platform Docker PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers SPARQL Kubernetes

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING AT BEAMERY

Strategic AI Leadership

Define and implement the companys AI and data science strategy ensuring alignment with long-term product vision commercial priorities and evolving customer needs.

Serve as a key connector between the C-suite and the data organization clearly communicating strategy progress risks and opportunities to executive stakeholders.

Collaborate with Product Engineering and Commercial leadership to translate complex data capabilities into meaningful business outcomes.

Represent Beamery as an external thought leader in the AI and data science community.

Execution

Oversee the full lifecycle delivery of the AI project portfolio; from research through production across key areas including personalization recommendation analytics and automation.

Lead the development of impactful AI systems including scaling the companys Knowledge Graph and building agentic models to create new product experiences that deliver measurable value to customers.

Operational Management

Lead grow and support a world‑class multi‑disciplinary data team across data science applied ML / AI and knowledge engineering.

Foster a culture of clarity curiosity and shared success that balances innovative research with customer‑focused delivery.

Implement and maintain robust governance ethics and compliance frameworks for all AI systems.

WHO WERE LOOKING FOR

• You are a collaborative builder thoughtful problem solver and innovative thinker. Wed love to hear from you if you have :
• Proven experience leading multi‑disciplinary teams at scale (10 people across data science ML engineering knowledge graph / ontology and AI).
• A strong track record of delivering AI‑driven products in complex B2B or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Expertise in engaging and communicating with senior stakeholders.
• A strategic mindset paired with a pragmatic approach. Comfortable navigating ambiguity making thoughtful trade‑offs and contributing meaningfully to outcomes.
• Solid grounding in applied ML / AI technologies (e.g. LLMs graph learning recommendation systems optimization).
• A passion for building mission driven teams that combine research excellence with real‑world commercial delivery.

Note : This is a hybrid role (Our office is based in London)

Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone regardless of ethnicity religion color sexual orientation gender identity race national origin age disability status or caregiver status. If for whatever reason you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process please email

Visit our Diversity Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.

Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Engineering

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1