Lead AI Labour Intelligence Consultant - Professional Services

Harri UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company in London is seeking a consultant to influence AI application and optimize labor processes. The ideal candidate will have experience in Professional Services or consulting, with a strong understanding of labour forecasting and executive presence. This role requires a hands-on leader capable of driving research and client-facing experiments to enhance our scheduling solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Professional Services/consulting/WFM or enterprise SaaS.
• Deep hands-on experience with labour forecasting, wage modeling.
• Ability to translate model outputs into business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy sophisticated forecasting and labour models.
• Lead R&D workstreams and validate AI methods.
• Serve as a trusted executive advisor on labour optimisation.

Skills

AI fluency

Labour forecasting

Executive presence

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Masters in Computer Science or MBA

Job description

Overview

About Harri: Harri is the first enterprise-ready workforce management platform built for the services vertical. The services vertical faces the greatest technological challenges that exist within the world of Human Capital Management and we believe they deserve a platform built from the ground up as a result. We have experienced a tremendous amount of growth since our 2012 inception and we have no plans on stopping that growth anytime soon. We are passionate about building a team of Service First-driven individuals who want to exceed the expectations of those who experience our brand.

If you're a builder, or problem solver, and love the fast pace of a startup, it's time to meet the Harri family.

Who you are

This is a rare opportunity to influence the application of AI and game-changing automation at a massive scale. As a key member of our Professional Services team, you will be a client-facing consultant and an embedded partner to Product/Engineering, translating real-world operations data into the models and playbooks that drive our AI-powered, fully autonomous scheduling solution. Day-to-day, you will translate client business goals into sophisticated labor models, deploy Harri's Activity-Based Scheduling (ABS), and lead R&D workstreams (e.g., experiment design, quality evaluation) that advance our platform from decision-support to full decision-automation. This visible, executive-facing role is for a hands-on, entrepreneurial leader who can independently research and prototype AI approaches, test them with client data, and directly influence our product roadmap through lighthouse pilots and published outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

AI Labour Modeling & Optimisation:

• Design, tune, and deploy sophisticated forecasting and labour models (fixed/guided/range-table), translating demand into optimised coverage, roles, and shifts using ABS.
• Champion "compliance-by-design" by embedding labour rules (minors, OT, breaks, fair workweek) into models and guardrails to ensure automation is safe by default.
• Calibrate schedules to financial and operational targets (labour %, throughput, SLAs), tracking KPIs to measure impact and coaching leaders on schedule quality.

Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems:

• Lead the client journey from decision-support to full autonomy by designing and running structured R&D workstreams, including parallel validation and guided automation trials.
• Conduct independent research to proactively learn, prototype, and improve our AI methods, turning successful experiments into repeatable, scalable playbooks.

Executive Consulting & Commercial Leadership:

• Serve as a trusted executive advisor on labour optimisation and scheduling autonomy, participating in client QBRs
• Lead the full consulting lifecycle from presale, discovery (current-state assessment, value modeling) to delivery (workshops, change management plans, training).

Experience and Skills:

• Masters in Computer Science or MBA with 5+ years in Professional Services/consulting/WFM or enterprise SaaS (hospitality/retail multi-unit preferred).
• Deep hands-on experience with labour forecasting, wage modeling, ABS, and compliance tuning.
• Executive presence with proven C-level communication; translates model outputs into business decisions.
• AI fluency (practical): prompt/workflow design, agent orchestration concepts, interpreting model outputs/limits for stakeholders (no PhD required).
• Entrepreneurial, owner-operator mindset: drives independent research, prototypes, and client-facing experiments from zero to one.
• Bonus: exposure to POS/HRIS/payroll integrations; US & UK labour/compliance familiarity.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a complete listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time.