Leading Orange Quarter and Xena in Germany, scaling Germany's leading AI companies
We are recruiting for an Head of Artificial Intelligence to join a fast-growing healthtech/fintech startup helping to shape the future of AI in healthcare! This is one of Berlin's most promising and well funded scale ups in the space.
You’ll manage, mentor, and grow multiple teams of AI and Data Engineers, while shaping the technical and product roadmap for scalable AI solutions for the business. This is a strategic leadership role, working directly with C-level and owning end to end AI strategy.
You’ll take full ownership of AI research direction, evaluation, prototype development, and most importantly AI product development. You’ll lead the way in leveraging the latest in LLMs, Agentic AI and Machine Learning to solve the problem of bureaucracy in Germany’s healthcare system.
What you’ll do:
* Lead, inspire, and grow multiple teams of AI & software engineers
* You’ll manage managers and highly senior staff engineers directly
* Drive innovation within the business through increasing AI adoption and product development capabilities
* Define roadmap priorities in collaboration with product and coordinate this across teams
* Drive AI technical and data strategy company-wide, with a focus on using AI to build customer facing products.
* Lead hiring initiatives to build the best AI product development organisation in Berlin
* Stay at the frontier of the latest research to identify opportunities for the business to evolve and utilise the latest in the space
What you bring:
* 2+ years of experience in a Head of, Director or VP level role within AI or Data Science leadership
* Deep expertise in the LLM/GenAI and Agentic worlds with experience in launching products based on these technologies
* Product Mindset - experience applying AI and the latest research to solve real world problems
* The drive, ambition and work rate to succeed in a very fast paced, rapidly scaling startup setting
* Hands‑on experience building and launching AI products
* Strong ML fundamentals and data/software engineering expertise
* Proven ability to mentor and grow high‑performing teams, technical leads and managers
* Excellent communication skills; English required, German a plus
* Lead pioneering AI at scale in a fast‑growing, well‑funded start‑up
* Flexible hybrid role with up to 2 days a week in the office, based in either Berlin or Munich.
* A chance to work on truly meaningful projects that impact millions of people.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Product Management, Engineering, and Research
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care, Financial Services, and Medical Practices
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