Head of Tech & AI — AI-First Scale-Up Leader

SnappCar | B Corp; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Snabbatical: paid leave after 3 and 5+

Annual development budget

Competitive salary with yearly review

Snappie HQ near Utrecht Centraal

Job summary

SnappCar is seeking a Head of Tech & AI to lead the engineering team and steer the platform toward an AI-first approach. You will own both product and technology decisions, delivering fast and predictable results while embedding AI as the default way of working across the company.

You will directly manage developers and a Data & AI Engineer, while also serving as Product Owner with a strong commercial sense.

Qualifications

• Several years leading a development team of 5+ FTE.
• Digital product experience with business sense and commercial goals.
• Background in a startup or scale-up (marketplace, platform, SaaS).
• AI adoption mindset and willingness to push AI into teams.
• Hands-on involvement in backlog, tickets, releases; coding is a plus.
• Ability to challenge content and ensure clear, plain explanations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the tech team: coach, shepherd daily work, resolve conflicts quickly.
• Assume Product Owner duties: manage backlog and priorities with AI as a tool.
• Translate business needs into actionable requirements for the team.
• Question scope and simplify to enable iterative delivery.
• Maintain fast and predictable delivery rhythm; focus ~90% on execution.
• Make AI the standard working mode in the tech team; increase speed 10x.
• Roll out AI across SnappCar in a controlled, teach-by-doing manner.
• Own data and AI strategy within SnappCar; align with product goals.
• Partner with senior architect; translate tech to plain language.
• Balance speed with quality; own priority, planning while team owns architecture.

Skills

Team leadership

Product ownership

AI adoption

Hands-on coding

Technical architecture

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Startup/scale-up experience

Job description

SnappCar is seeking a Head of Tech & AI to lead the engineering team and steer the platform toward an AI-first approach. You will own both product and technology decisions, delivering fast and predictable results while embedding AI as the default way of working across the company.

You will directly manage developers and a Data & AI Engineer, while also serving as Product Owner with a strong commercial sense.