Hiring a head of AI for a venture-backed startup

AI-powered analytics startup

Challenge

The company needed to hire a Head of AI to lead development of their machine learning platform. The role required a rare combination of:

  • Deep machine learning expertise
  • Experience deploying models into production
  • Leadership experience building data science teams
  • The founders had been searching for over four months without success.

Our Approach

We mapped the AI talent market and identified candidates with backgrounds in:

  • Machine learning engineering
  • AI infrastructure
  • Applied research environments
  • We targeted professionals working at high-performing AI organizations and focused on candidates with real-world experience deploying ML systems at scale.

Each candidate was carefully evaluated for:

  • Model development expertise
  • MLOps experience
  • Leadership capability

Result

  • Shortlist delivered within 2 weeks
  • Successful hire completed in 6 weeks
  • The new Head of AI built a team of 6 ML engineers within the first year
  • The hire helped accelerate the company’s AI roadmap and strengthen its technical leadership.

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Find the right solution

The company needed to hire a Head of AI to lead development of their machine learning platform. The role required a rare combination of:
  • Deep machine learning expertise
  • Experience deploying models into production
  • Leadership experience building data science teams
  • The founders had been searching for over four months without success.
We mapped the AI talent market and identified candidates with backgrounds in:
  • Machine learning engineering
  • AI infrastructure
  • Applied research environments
  • We targeted professionals working at high-performing AI organizations and focused on candidates with real-world experience deploying ML systems at scale.

Each candidate was carefully evaluated for:
  • Model development expertise
  • MLOps experience
  • Leadership capability
  • Shortlist delivered within 2 weeks
  • Successful hire completed in 6 weeks
  • The new Head of AI built a team of 6 ML engineers within the first year
  • The hire helped accelerate the company’s AI roadmap and strengthen its technical leadership.

We build teams that accelerate growth

We focus on positions where execution depends on the right people, timelines are tight, and mistakes are expensive.
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