Chief AI & Technology Transformation Leader

Zohorecruit; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathfinders Consulting Pty (LTD) in Cape Town seeks a Head of AI and Technology to lead the firm's AI strategy and the secure technology backbone. You will own AI transformation, guide productization of services and set the architecture for an integrated, data-driven consultancy.

The role requires deep AI fluency, five years in senior tech leadership, and the ability to work directly with the MD and leadership team to turn advanced AI into scalable business outcomes, with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Deep practical AI fluency: LLM workflows, agentic automation and data engineering as things you build, not concepts you present.

Responsibilities

• AI transformation and operating model reinvention: own the AI strategy with the leadership team, stay at the leading edge of AI developments and translate them into how the firm researches, models, writes, reviews and delivers.
• New products and services: co-conceptualise AI-enabled offerings with the technical heads, and build, run and evolve the production platforms behind the subscription products.
• Integrated systems and business insight: set the target architecture that replaces fragmented internal systems with one coherent whole, a single source of truth that turns what the firm knows about itself into leadership insight.

Skills

AI fluency

Architecture

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Hands-on prototyping

Trust building

Job description

Pathfinders Consulting Pty (LTD) in Cape Town seeks a Head of AI and Technology to lead the firm's AI strategy and the secure technology backbone. You will own AI transformation, guide productization of services and set the architecture for an integrated, data-driven consultancy.

The role requires deep AI fluency, five years in senior tech leadership, and the ability to work directly with the MD and leadership team to turn advanced AI into scalable business outcomes, with hybrid work options.