Ai Innovation Lead

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom SMG Full time

**Job Title**:AI Innovation Lead
- **Level & Responsibility**:Director level, with prospects to build and lead a team in the future.
- **Location & Hybrid Working**:London, remote first

**The role**

Part of SMG, Plan-Apps is a cutting-edge technology company specialising in B2B SaaS solutions tailored for the dynamic landscape of the retail media industry. Our innovative platform empowers retailers to optimise their media estates, streamlining the full marketing campaign cycle - connecting brands and retailers to use data to plan, manage and measure marketing campaigns effectively.

As an AI Innovation Lead, you will be responsible for leading a small team of engineers and data specialists in the exploration and integration of AI technologies within the Plan-Apps platform, and to benefit the wider business processes of the SMG organisation.

**Why SMG?**

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

Generous discretionary bonus scheme

‍️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

£500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

Free headspace subscription

4pm Friday finishes all year round

Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

**Why you?**

In line with our company values, within your role, you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun More specifically, you'll have/be:

- Experience in successfully launching AI or advanced analytics products to the market
- Data science and AI solution knowledge and experience in data product management
- Data analytics, technology and governance knowledge
Excellent stakeholder and project management skills
- P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you._

**What you'll be doing**

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

- Oversee a team of engineers and analysts to develop innovative AI solutions and POCs
- Contribute to the strategy and roadmap for our AI Labs to align with overall business goals and manage the use case collection process across SMG
- Define the criteria and framework for new innovation initiatives and ensure there is a clear prioritisation and delivery process
- Mentor and manage a small high-performing team of AI experts with backgrounds in data science, machine learning and engineering
- Identify and onboard third parties for collaboration or to supplement the AI Labs team when needed
- Lead research and development of cutting-edge AI technologies such as large language models, generative AI, and Machine Learning
- Oversee the end-to-end POC process of AI solutions from ideation and prototyping to potential productionisation
- Evangelise AI and educate stakeholders on AI capabilities, limitations, and responsible development
- Monitor AI tools, industry trends, competitions, and benchmarks to maintain technical competitive advantage
Promote AI best practices in ethics, robustness, transparency, and governance

**The process**
- We will invite you to a** first interview** which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
- There will be a **second interview** which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
- We then invite you to a **meet & greet **which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

**Helping you shine**

**SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer**

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