Head of AI (IT)

Head of AI London - Remote (Transitioning to hybrid working in London after 6 months) £120,000 - £150,000 + Equity + Private Health & Dental + Gym Allowance + Commuting Season Ticket Loan Are you an experienced AI engineering leader who has built and scaled LLM-powered generation systems in production, and do you want to take ownership of the architecture, strategy and performance of a cutting-edge platform where every user-generated game is created by AI? This is a rare opportunity to join a startup at a pivotal stage of growth, taking ownership of the core technology that powers the entire product experience. You will lead the team responsible for designing and evolving a sophisticated game generation pipeline used to create short-form browser games at scale. In this leadership-focused role, you will be responsible for architecture, technical direction, roadmap ownership and team growth. Working closely with product, engineering and game design teams, you will define how AI models, templates, retrieval systems and validation frameworks work together to maximise generation quality while reducing operational costs. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading teams that have delivered large-scale AI content generation systems into production. Experience with game development, code generation platforms, procedural content generation or prompt-to-application products would be highly beneficial. The Role: Lead and grow a multidisciplinary AI and engineering team Own the architecture of the end-to-end game generation pipeline Define evaluation frameworks, benchmarking and playability testing Design feedback systems that incorporate player behaviour into generation improvements Drive model routing, optimisation and cost reduction strategies Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the technical roadmap The Person: Experience leading engineering teams delivering LLM-powered generation systems in production Strong background designing multi-stage generation, validation and evaluation pipelines Proven experience reducing generation costs through model routing, caching and retrieval strategies Able to lead architecture decisions and contribute technical guidance at a senior level Commercially aware and comfortable balancing technical and product priorities Games industry, game tooling or procedural generation experience beneficial Reference Number: BBBH281438 Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.