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Head of AIDubai, United Arab EmiratesThis position is on-site in the UAE*Relocation benefits are available for successful candidates relocating from overseas*We are recruiting for a financial services client who are looking for a Head of AI to establish an Applied Artificial Intelligence division for their office in Dubai.This is a new position within the company, you will be tasked on both hands on delivery and building the team.What the role looks like:Build an 18-month roadmap for data science & AI.Design and build data science & AI products, including custom agentic products/applications leveraging Enterprise LLM's and other tools.Support the investment data science team (public and private markets).Be able to advise on the right services, toolkits, resources in support of projects and products.Introduce an implementation plan for Responsible AI practices into the AI platform.Experience needed:10+ years of hands-on experience in applied data science or AI/ML delivery (within finance / investments is desired)5+ years management experienceAgentic AI experienceFull investments life-cycle understandingDevelop, train, and deploy machine learning models.Experience managing quant, data science, and AI third parties internally and externally.RAG Pipelines.Establishing and managing an Applied AI team.Knowledge of responsible AI practices.MSc or PhD in relevant STEM (desired).If you are interested in this position, please apply and share your profile so we can arrange a confidential discussion. Equally if you know someone who might be a good fit for the role, let's connect.Due to the number of applicants, only candidates with the relevant experience against the requirements will be contacted. Show more Show less

Head of AIDubai, United Arab EmiratesThis position is on-site in the UAE*Relocation benefits are available for successful candidates relocating from overseas*We are recruiting for a financial services client who are looking for a Head of AI to establish an Applied Artificial Intelligence division for their office in Dubai.This is a new position within the company, you will be tasked on both hands on delivery and building the team.What the role looks like:Build an 18-month roadmap for data science & AI.Design and build data science & AI products, including custom agentic products/applications leveraging Enterprise LLM's and other tools.Support the investment data science team (public and private markets).Be able to advise on the right services, toolkits, resources in support of projects and products.Introduce an implementation plan for Responsible AI practices into the AI platform.Experience needed:10+ years of hands-on experience in applied data science or AI/ML delivery (within finance / investments is desired)5+ years management experienceAgentic AI experienceFull investments life-cycle understandingDevelop, train, and deploy machine learning models.Experience managing quant, data science, and AI third parties internally and externally.RAG Pipelines.Establishing and managing an Applied AI team.Knowledge of responsible AI practices.MSc or PhD in relevant STEM (desired).If you are interested in this position, please apply and share your profile so we can arrange a confidential discussion. Equally if you know someone who might be a good fit for the role, let's connect.Due to the number of applicants, only candidates with the relevant experience against the requirements will be contacted. Show more Show less