AI & Machine Learning Lead

Ready to lead real-world AI innovation in a fast-growing SaaS start-up?

If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, experimentation, and delivery — this is your chance to shape the intelligence behind the future of work.

Join Role Mapper and lead the evolution of our AI and ML capabilities that make workforce decisions fairer, smarter, and more transparent.

In a world where organisations are facing significant skills challenges, increasing compliance requirements and continuous organisational transformation, current approaches to managing job, work & skills data are no longer fit for purpose.

Role Mapper is building the DNA for Work, the data infrastructure powering fair, transparent and AI-driven workforce decisions. Role Mapper brings structure, intelligence and governance to Job, Work & Skills data, enabling transparent, equitable pay decisions, skills-based talent strategies and high- performing teams, at scale.

In 5 years, we have built a portfolio of global big brand customers across the UK and US, have recently received significant VC funding, and are now embarking on the next chapter of our growth journey.
If you love working in an inclusive, collaborative, team-first culture and are passionate about helping customers solve some of the biggest workforce challenges, then Role Mapper is the place to be!

Role Mapper is building the DNA for Work: the data infrastructure powering fair, transparent, and AI-driven workforce decisions. You'll shape and scale the platform that makes this possible.

You'll lead our AI roadmap, from model design to data architecture, ensuring Role Mapper's technology remains differentiated, defensible, and enterprise ready. You will play a pivotal role in defining how our proprietary AI and platform evolves, turning complex, messy organisational data into intelligence that powers fair compensation, pay transparency, and workforce agility.

Combining strategy with hands-on leadership, you'll build the team, systems, and innovation engine that drive our next phase of growth and position Role Mapper at the forefront of AI in work design..

As a AI & Machine Learning Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Translating product vision into a feasible, scalable AI and ML roadmap that deliver measurable business value and align with commercial goals
• Designing and scaling of Role Mapper’s AI and Machine Learning Models, combining leadership with hands-on execution
• Ensuring reliable and responsible ML systems through strong operations and governance
• Owning cross-functional alignment to ensure ML solutions are developed collaboratively and translated seamlessly into the core product experiencet
• Leading and scaling high performing ML Team
• Representing our technology to customers, partners & investors and across the company

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience in leading and growing ML/Data teams
• A “product focused” approach with a background in data-heavy SaaS and/or B2B Enterprise platforms
• A collaborative, skilled communicator with ability to influence non-technical audiences.
• A commercially savvy with a startup mindset: hands-on, innovative, pragmatic, delivery-oriented

You will also have:

• A proactive, hands-on mindset — comfortable working at pace and in a fast-changing environment.
• Clear and confident communication skills, able to explain technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder skills — you listen well and work closely with others to solve problems.
• A focus on delivery and outcomes, with a practical and flexible approach.
• Motivation to be part of a scaling start-up where things evolve quickly and you can have a real impact.

Start-up life is not for everyone! To really thrive with us you will be 'Start-up ready'. You are naturally proactive, open to change, have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, happy to go beyond your brief, enjoy working at pace and are comfortable with ambiguity.

And finally, you will really resonate with our values:
Customer Focus
: we are obsessive about delivering value and reducing complexity for customers
Collaboration
: we’re all about the team - collaborating,…