London Hybrid: 6-Month AI Innovation Prototyping Lead

Ocho People; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho People in London is seeking an AI Innovation Manager on a six-month contract to lead hands-on AI experiments with a major global payments organisation. You will sit at the intersection of consulting, AI innovation and rapid product delivery.

You will work with Commercial and Operations to identify opportunities, prototype solutions and turn ideas into working pilots. This role emphasises speed, evidence and practical delivery over traditional programme management.

Qualifications

• Experience in technology, digital or AI consulting.
• Strong understanding of how AI can be applied to business problems.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools, prototypes or AI-enabled workflows.
• Ability to move quickly from idea to proof of concept.
• Strong problem-solving and structured consulting skills.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments.
• Able to engage confidently with business stakeholders without being overly senior or removed from delivery.
• Good understanding of modern software/product delivery approaches.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to identify where technology can create measurable value.
• Ability to assess different technical approaches rather than defaulting to LLMs for every use case.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value AI and automation opportunities with business stakeholders.
• Translate business pain points into practical technology solutions.
• Rapidly assess whether Generative AI, Agentic AI, ML, workflow automation, APIs, or existing enterprise tooling is appropriate.
• Define and build rapid proofs of concept and proofs of value.
• Work with the AI Innovation Specialist to turn ideas into prototypes.
• Use modern AI-assisted development approaches to accelerate delivery.
• Test prototypes quickly with real users and gather feedback.
• Define success criteria and measure pilots' value.
• Recommend progression or pivots for ideas.
• Explore new AI tools/platforms and assess value.
• Hand successful pilots into Product/Engineering for productionisation.

Skills

Technology consulting

Hands-on delivery

AI innovations

Prototype development

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Salesforce Agentforce

AWS Bedrock

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Suite

Databricks

Snowflake

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Job description

Ocho People in London is seeking an AI Innovation Manager on a six-month contract to lead hands-on AI experiments with a major global payments organisation. You will sit at the intersection of consulting, AI innovation and rapid product delivery.

You will work with Commercial and Operations to identify opportunities, prototype solutions and turn ideas into working pilots. This role emphasises speed, evidence and practical delivery over traditional programme management.