Head of AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the company's AI strategy, transforming business opportunities into a structured roadmap of AI initiatives.

• Identify, assess, and prioritize AI use cases across product development and internal business processes.

• Lead the design and implementation of production-ready LLM solutions, which include AI agents, multi-agent systems, and generative features.

• Develop and scale internal AI tools that enhance engineering productivity and are widely adopted by other teams.

• Assess the business case for AI initiatives prior to development, estimating anticipated impact, development costs, and inference expenses.

• Establish measurement frameworks to evaluate the actual impact of AI solutions, set baselines, and differentiate genuine improvements from external factors.

• Introduce engineering standards and best practices for AI development, covering architecture, evaluation, security, and reliability.

• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to seamlessly integrate AI into existing workflows, development processes, and products.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience (candidates with less experience may be considered if they possess strong relevant expertise).

• 2+ years of practical experience in building and deploying LLM-based solutions in production, including AI agents, integrations, and generative features.

• Experience in developing internal tools and AI solutions that are actively utilized by other teams.

• Ability to analyze the economics of AI initiatives, considering expected business impact, development costs, and inference expenses.

• Experience in measuring the real impact of implemented solutions, defining baselines, selecting measurement methods, and isolating results from external factors.

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including estimation, code reviews, and release management.

• Knowledge of product metrics such as conversion, retention, ARPU, and unit economics.

• Upper-Intermediate (B2) English proficiency or higher.

• Experience in designing and operating multi-agent systems in a production environment.

• Experience in building custom MCP servers.

• Advanced expertise in Claude Code, encompassing custom skills, commands, subagents, and hooks.

• Strong context engineering abilities.

• Experience with evaluation frameworks, such as offline evaluation datasets, LLM-as-a-judge, and detecting model performance degradation after updates.

• Understanding of inference economics and optimization techniques, including caching, batching, model selection, and cost per unit.

• Knowledge of AI security policies and practices, including prompt injection protection, data and secret leakage prevention, and agent permission management.

• Familiarity with DORA and SPACE engineering metrics.

• Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) or Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) certification.

• 2+ years of experience in a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer role is a plus.

• Experience in implementing RAG solutions for codebases or technical documentation is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 20 paid vacation days.

• 15 sick days.

• 6 additional days off for family events.

• Up to 10 extra days off for public holidays.

• 100% medical insurance coverage.

• Sports and equipment reimbursement.

• Team building events.

• Corporate gifts and stylish merchandise.

• Financial and legal support.

• Maternity recovery support allowance.

• Position retention and support for individuals who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• Participation in social initiatives that support Ukraine.

• Work from the Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule.

• Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools.

• Collaboration with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals.

• Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs).

• Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes.

• Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events.