AI Team Lead — Platform & Delivery Leader

Hunkemöller; Deerfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of annual leave

Hybrid work model

Work from abroad for up to 2 weeks per

International work environment

Travel allowance

Hunkemöller Academy access

25% employee discount

Job summary

Hunkemöller is seeking an AI Team Lead to build and run a hands-on AI group that turns leadership priorities into production AI solutions. You will supervise two engineers, collaborate with external partners, and define the standards and tools used by other teams and vendors.

You will be the primary AI advisor across the business and manage our Google Cloud agent platform and its generative capabilities, ensuring cost effectiveness and adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical product ownership or engineering leadership; led a small team delivering AI solutions.
• Hands-on cloud platforms, API and language-model applications; Google Cloud experience a plus.
• Proven ability to manage agencies, system integrators or freelancers on fixed-scope work.
• Comfortable deciding with incomplete information and prioritizing deliverables.
• Build trust across departments and explain complex concepts to varied audiences.
• Understanding AI impact on cost, time savings and adoption; retail/fashion/ecommerce experience a strong plus.
• Strong written and verbal English skills; Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Turn AI priorities into scoped deliverables with clear acceptance criteria, estimates and a business owner.
• Decide whether work is delivered by the team or by an external partner and set fixed-scope agreements.
• Set criteria for AI platform/tool choices, covering data access, cost, integration and maintenance.
• Own monitoring, maintenance, running cost and incident handling for AI solutions in production.
• Be the go-to point for AI; triage requests to champions, team, cloud owner or partners, keeping support around 20% of capacity.
• Build and lead the AI champions network across departments to surface opportunities.
• Plan the team’s work, coach two engineers, ensuring cover of basic work by each.
• Track savings and adoption per deliverable and report progress to leadership and the AI Board.

Skills

Product ownership leadership

Delivery leadership

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cost and business case understanding

AI experience application

Retail/fashion/ecommerce context

Cross-department collaboration

Cloud/LLM basics

Tools

Google Cloud

APIs & Lang‑Model apps review

Vendor/agency management

Job description

Hunkemöller is seeking an AI Team Lead to build and run a hands-on AI group that turns leadership priorities into production AI solutions. You will supervise two engineers, collaborate with external partners, and define the standards and tools used by other teams and vendors.

You will be the primary AI advisor across the business and manage our Google Cloud agent platform and its generative capabilities, ensuring cost effectiveness and adoption.