AI Product & Innovation Head - Financial Services - Michael Page
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About the Role
A leading investment holding group is seeking an experienced AI product leader to drive AI use cases across portfolio companies and internal functions. The role involves identifying and prioritizing AI opportunities, designing end-to-end solutions, and collaborating with investment and business teams.
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Responsibilities
- Identify and prioritise AI use cases across the group, including investment screening, data driven insights, and operational automation
- Design and deliver AI solutions end to end
- Work closely with investment, finance, and business teams to translate requirements into practical AI products
- Partner with IT and external vendors to build and deploy scalable solutions
- Evaluate and manage AI vendors and technologies, ensuring cost efficiency and performance
- Integrate internal and external data sources to enable better decision making
- Ensure solutions are aligned with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements
- Support adoption of AI tools and platforms across the organisation
- Engage with portfolio companies to identify opportunities to leverage AI and share best practices
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall experience with strong exposure across AI, data, or digital product delivery
- Proven track record of building and deploying AI/ML or LLM based solutions in production
- Strong technical understanding of AI architectures, data pipelines, and modern cloud environments (Azure preferred)
- Experience designing AI agents, automation solutions, or data driven applications
- Commercial mindset with ability to evaluate cost, ROI, and vendor solutions
- Experience working in financial services, investment environments, or data intensive businesses is highly preferred
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business, technology, and investment teams
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About Our Client
- A leading investment holding group with a diversified portfolio across multiple sectors.
- The organisation is actively investing in AI to enhance decision making, operational efficiency and portfolio value creation.
Job Description
- Identify and prioritise AI use cases across the group, including investment screening, data driven insights, and operational automation
- Design and deliver AI solutions end to end.
- Work closely with investment, finance, and business teams to translate requirements into practical AI products
- Partner with IT and external vendors to build and deploy scalable solutions
- Evaluate and manage AI vendors and technologies, ensuring cost efficiency and performance (including model utilisation and token optimisation)
- Integrate internal and external data sources to enable better decision making across the organisation
- Ensure solutions are aligned with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements
- Support adoption of AI tools and platforms across the organisation.
- Engage with portfolio companies to identify opportunities to leverage AI and share best practices
The Successful Applicant
- 10+ years of overall experience, with strong exposure across AI, data, or digital product delivery
- Proven track record of building and deploying AI/ML or LLM based solutions in production
- Strong technical understanding of AI architectures, data pipelines, and modern cloud environments (Azure preferred)
- Experience designing AI agents, automation solutions, or data driven applications
- Commercial mindset with the ability to evaluate cost, ROI, and vendor solutions
- Experience working in financial services, investment environments, or data intensive businesses is highly preferred
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business, technology, and investment teams
- Comfortable operating in a lean, fast moving environment without large internal teams
What's On Offer
- Opportunity to build and deliver meaningful AI use cases from the ground up
- A lean, high visibility environment with direct interaction with senior leadership
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