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Head of ML & AI
Full-time
MRJ Recruitment is hiring a Head of ML & AI Engineering to lead a high-impact function at the heart of a fast-paced consumer business. You'll lead a talented team of 10 engineers and data scientists, driving the next generation of intelligent customer experiences through AI, machine learning, search, personalisation, and recommendation technologies.
The opportunity
You'll own the vision, strategy, and delivery of AI-powered customer-facing capabilities across search, recommendations, personalisation, and emerging GenAI initiatives, working closely with Product, Data, Engineering, and Commercial leaders to build systems that directly impact engagement, conversion, retention, and revenue.
What you'll do
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10 ML and AI professionals, and define the AI & ML roadmap aligned to business goals.
Drive development of advanced recommendation and personalisation systems.
Enhance search relevance through ranking models, embeddings, and semantic search.
Lead adoption of GenAI and LLMs where they create measurable customer value.
Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle with robust MLOps, governance, monitoring, and scalability.
What they're looking for
Proven experience leading ML and AI engineering teams and scaling customer-facing ML products.
Deep expertise in search, personalisation, recommendation engines, or relevance optimisation.
Strong understanding of LLMs and Generative AI, plus production ML platforms.
Hands-on with Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, MLOps, vector databases, and cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
