Delivery Lead - AI & Innovation

London, United Kingdom

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Who we're looking for

We're looking for an AI Delivery Lead to turn high-value Applied AI opportunities into real, measurable outcomes across Schroders. This is a chance to shape how AI agents take their place alongside our people: moving from promising experiments to capabilities that colleagues across the firm depend on every day.

You'll own delivery end to end: bringing structure to fast-moving, ambiguous work, aligning multidisciplinary teams, managing risk and dependencies, and holding a firm line on the value we set out to create. It calls for strong facilitation, stakeholder management and prioritisation skills, and the judgement to apply just enough process to keep pace without losing control.

AI is a firm-wide priority at Schroders, with senior sponsorship, serious investment and real appetite to move. If that's the kind of environment you want to deliver in, we'd love to hear from you.

About Us

Schroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions. We aim to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We serve a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.

Established in 1804, we have around 5,500 people across 36 global locations. Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies.

The team

The AI and Innovation team is Schroders' centre of excellence for AI. We build the enterprise AI services and agentic platform that let AI agents deliver value at scale, and we partner with teams right across the firm to take their highest-value use cases from first idea into production.

This is a high-priority, high-visibility area using genuinely new technology, and we move quickly against competing demands. You'd join a small team of people who care about software in a financial context and are set on keeping Schroders ahead of the curve.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Applied AI use cases across Schroders, from discovery and shaping through to production adoption and benefit realisation.
• Turn agreed business intent into credible delivery plans, working with sponsors and teams to sequence the work, set milestones, expose dependencies and agree decision points. Get dependent work onto the backlogs and roadmaps of other teams early enough to matter.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across product, engineering, architecture, data, security, risk, operations and business areas, ensuring delivery remains aligned to agreed outcomes.
• Remove blockers for the team, actively manage risks and issues, and elevate where decisions, trade-offs or support are needed.
• Steer use cases through relevant governance, keeping approvals moving and proving a solution is ready before it reaches production.
• Use data, feedback and delivery metrics to communicate progress, evidence value, identify friction, and adapt plans where assumptions are not holding.
• Facilitate challenging discussions, create shared understanding between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and make sure decisions are understood even where agreement is not possible.
• Drive continuous improvement in execution, using metrics, retrospectives and feedback to improve delivery flow, team performance, knowledge sharing and self-organisation.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Proven experience leading end-to-end delivery of…