Ai Transformation Lead (Fintech)

TL;DR

AI Transformation Lead (Fintech): Leading the AI Transformation Office Team and coordinating large-scale, complex AI initiatives across the Group with an accent on managing dependencies, sequencing delivery, and resolving interlocks. Focus on delivery, regulatory and operational risks associated with AI change and stakeholder leadership.

Location: Must spend at least two days per week, or 40% of time, in the London, Leeds or Bristol office.

Salary: £146,591 - £172,460

Company

hirify.global is an innovative, fast-changing business shaping finance as a force for good.

What you will do

• Leading the AI Transformation Office Team, setting direction and coordinating large-scale, complex AI initiatives across the Group.
• Acting as the senior integration point for the AI agenda across Platforms, Business Units, and third parties.
• Owning integrated AI roadmaps, managing dependencies, sequencing delivery, and resolving interlocks.
• Identifying delivery, regulatory, and operational risks associated with AI change.
• Acting as a key escalation point for AI-related blockers.
• Leading a high performing team to achieve short term and long term targets in a fast-paced, fluid environment.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading large-scale transformation, coordinating cross platform and cross business delivery, ideally within data, analytics or AI driven environments.
• Proven ability to structure and deliver complex, technology enabled change, including building and managing integrated AI roadmaps, dependencies, milestones and risk frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, large-scale analytics platforms, machine learning and cloud based environments.
• Deep experience applying modern delivery methodologies (Agile, hybrid, scaled frameworks) to shape, prioritise and sequence work across multidisciplinary engineering, data and business teams.
• Hands on experience managing delivery, regulatory and operational risks related to emerging technologies, including AI governance, model risk management, data privacy and responsible AI controls.
• Exceptional senior stakeholder leadership, with the ability to translate complex AI strategy into clear delivery actions, drive alignment across Technology, Data, Risk, Legal, Compliance and business areas, and remove blockers at pace.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits adapted to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.