Hybrid AI Team Lead — Scale AI with Global Impact

Hunkemöller; Hilversum; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Hybrid work

Work abroad for up to 2 weeks/year

International environment

Travel allowance

Academy access

Employee discount

Job summary

Hunkemöller is seeking a senior AI/Cloud leader to drive the AI priorities from leadership into concrete deliverables. The role requires influencing across departments, managing internal and external partners, and ensuring responsible AI use within a hybrid work setting in Hilversum, NL.

You will report to the Head of Data, Analytics and AI and lead a small team while building an AI champions network and tracking value realization.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical product ownership or engineering leadership, with hands-on AI delivery.
• Ability to review partner architecture and estimates for cloud-based AI solutions.
• Proven track record managing agencies, system integrators or freelancers on fixed-scope work.
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information as priorities shift.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Leadership Priorities: translate AI priorities into scoped deliverables with acceptance criteria and business owner.
• Decide Build or Partner: set scope with a fixed agreement and ensure partners meet standards.
• Own AI Standards and Platform Choices: define criteria for AI platforms, data access, cost, and maintenance; manage Google Cloud agent platform with cloud team.
• Run What the Team Delivers: monitor, maintain, and handle incidents for AI solutions in production.
• Be the Go-To Point for AI: triage requests to champions, team, or partners while maintaining support to ~20% capacity.
• Build the AI Champions Network: recruit and train AI champions across departments to surface opportunities.
• Lead and Develop the Team: plan work, coach two engineers, and ensure cross-coverage.
• Report Value: track savings and adoption per deliverable and report progress to leadership and the AI Board.

Skills

AI leadership

Cloud platforms

Google Cloud

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Team coaching

Tools

Google Cloud

APIs

Job description

Hunkemöller is seeking a senior AI/Cloud leader to drive the AI priorities from leadership into concrete deliverables. The role requires influencing across departments, managing internal and external partners, and ensuring responsible AI use within a hybrid work setting in Hilversum, NL.

You will report to the Head of Data, Analytics and AI and lead a small team while building an AI champions network and tracking value realization.