Head of Artificial Intelligence

Job Description :

Key Responsibilities :

• Define and own the companys AI vision, roadmap, and long-term strategy. Lead end-to-end AI initiatives from ideation to implementation and scaling.
• Drive the adoption of AI technologies across business units to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
• Stay ahead of AI trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices to ensure continuous innovation.
• Oversee architecture, design, and deployment of AI / ML, deep learning, NLP, GenAI, and computer vision solutions.
• Ensure development of scalable, secure, and production-grade AI systems.
• Review technical designs, code, and architecture to ensure high-quality standards.
• Guide teams in model selection, experimentation frameworks, MLOps, and performance optimization.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps Engineers, and AI Researchers.
• Build a culture of innovation, experimentation, and accountability within the AI team.
• Manage resource planning, competency development, and project execution.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Cloud, and Business teams to ensure alignment of AI initiatives with organizational objectives.
• Translate complex AI capabilities into business use cases and measurable outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership to executive stakeholders, influencing data-driven decisions.
• Establish AI governance frameworks, ethical AI guidelines, and responsible AI best practices.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
• Oversee model monitoring, drift detection, retraining pipelines, and audit processes.
• Drive research initiatives in LLMs, agentic AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal models, and emerging AI technologies.
• Lead POCs and experimentation to evaluate feasibility of new AI use cases.

Qualifications & Skills :

Preferred Qualifications :

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