# Director of Technology - AI

**Company**: Digital Catapult
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: c. £110,000-130,000 pa
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Digital Catapult is a technology innovation organisation. We accelerate the practical application of deep technologies to equip the UK to be future ready. We partner with businesses, investors and academia to identify valuable opportunities and create market pathways, ensuring the UK is future ready, supporting economic growth.

The Director of Technology - AI will play a critical role in leading the AI portfolio of work, defining and driving the technology roadmap for AI and related areas, creating and delivering collaborative research, development and technology translation programmes with university and industry partners and innovators.

**Responsibilities**

- Be a collaborative and ambitious leader and expert in AI across Digital Catapult.

- Direct and enable a high-quality programme of research and development in AI, securing funding via R&D projects and supporting commercial opportunities.

- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including innovators, startups and scaleups, government, academic institutions, industry partners.

- Represent Digital Catapult at industry events, conferences, and public engagements.

- Lead and mentor a diverse team, coach and guide immediate reports, and the AI-related team members across the wider organisation.

- Supervise and deliver horizon scanning, developing the technology roadmap and plans in AI and related areas.

**Requirements**

- A visible and respected leader within AI, with a proven ability to represent an organisation through thought leadership, publications, conferences and industry events.

- Demonstrable experience defining and delivering technology strategy, horizon scanning, roadmaps and research agendas.

- Strong understanding of contemporary AI technologies, including agentic AI, AI assurance, neuro-symbolic AI, post-LLM approaches.

- Experience securing collaborative research and innovation funding, including grant-funded programmes.

- Significant experience leading technology research, development and innovation programmes in AI, and leading multi-disciplinary technical teams within a research, innovation, technology or R&D environment.

- Track record in building teams and AI capability, promoting a culture of learning, excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

**Benefits**

- Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Year.

- Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary.

- Discretionary company bonus - 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits.

- E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal.

- Life insurance 4x salary.

- Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice.

- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

- Hybrid working - with great offices to work from 2 days per week.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- technology strategy
- horizon scanning
- research and development
- team leadership

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