Head of AI
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Head of AI building BCD’s enterprise AI capability and Centre of Excellence. Embedding AI into workflows and products for global corporate travel management.
Responsibilities:
- Set and own BCD’s enterprise AI strategy and multi-year roadmap
- Build and lead an AI Centre of Excellence
- Hire and develop engineers, solution architects, and enablement staff
- Define standards for model selection, prompt/agent design, evaluation, and responsible-AI/risk controls
- Own the shared AI platform strategy, including governance of the MCP/data layer
- Interface with the AI Leadership Council, report progress, and escalate risks or resourcing gaps
- Establish and manage an embedded AI champion network across business functions
- Own vendor and partner relationships
- Define and report enterprise-wide AI KPIs to the executive team and board as needed
- Champion change management and training focused on embedded workflow adoption
- Enable engineering teams to embed AI into BCD products, including Tripsource
- Lead development, deployment, and adoption of an enterprise AI-SDLC framework
- Build AI capability from zero and transform AI into a strategic business advantage
- Work with leaders, practitioners, AI champions, technology teams, and business stakeholders across multiple continents
Requirements:
- 10+ years of technology or digital transformation leadership experience
- 3+ years leading AI, machine learning, or data science initiatives at enterprise scale
- Founder or early-stage startup experience required
- Proven ability to build new capability from zero in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
- Experience standing up or scaling a Centre of Excellence, platform team, or federated operating model in a large, multi-country organization
- Track record of translating AI initiatives into measurable productivity or revenue outcomes
- Strong grasp of enterprise AI governance, data privacy, model risk, and responsible AI
- Experience in a regulated or data-sensitive context
- Experience working with or overseeing agentic AI, LLM-based tooling, or integration frameworks such as MCP
- Executive presence with C-suite and travel/operations stakeholders
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management capabilities
Benefits:
- Opportunity to architect the future of AI at BCD
- Executive visibility and influence
- Global impact at enterprise scale
- Remote-first working model
- Ability to build your own team and operating model
- Access to complex, high-value business challenges
- Flexible working hours
- Work-from-home or remote opportunities
- Opportunities to grow your skillset and career
- Generous vacation days
- Mental, physical, and financial wellbeing tools
- Travel industry professional perks and discounts
- Inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated
- Reasonable and necessary accommodations
- Open communication, collaboration, and a flexible work-life balance
- Unique, often global, experiences that empower development and growth
- Charitable activities in communities across the globe


















