Head of AI Productivity Lead
Location: London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester | Full‑time – 35 hours per week | Hybrid working: at least two days per week or 40% of time at an office. Salary: £137,848 – £209,440 (depending on role and experience).
What you’ll be doing
Lead a high‑performing AI Productivity team within the new AI Productivity Lab, reporting to the Group Director of Data & AI Architecture. Drive adoption of agentic coworking across key business areas, embedding intelligent agents into workflows, SOPs and tools. Lead design and development of a cutting‑edge agentic coworking platform, including an evolving, agent‑maintained knowledge base and ecosystem of agentic coworkers and tools. Partner with business and technology leaders to set the strategic direction for productivity and automation, staying close to emerging industry and open‑source innovations. This hands‑on leadership role requires building, experimenting and leading with clear vision and technical direction.
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering transformational business and technology change in a regulated financial services environment, including knowledge of operational processes, risk management, change management and compliance.
- Authoritative expertise in agentic coding and/or coworking technology (e.g. Claude Code, Cowork, OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot), grounded in hands‑on experience.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software engineering, application development, infrastructure and enterprise architecture, with an ability to manage and direct engineering activities.
- Hands‑on experience using AI‑SDLC tooling (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate individual and team engineering productivity.
- Experience acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and influencing business strategy.
Benefits
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- Annual bonus award, subject to group performance.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
EEO and Workplace Adjustments
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
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