Summary
What you’ll impact
The Head of AI at the organization will own the full AI roadmap, including architecture, modeling strategy, evaluations, and shipping, as well as the supplier underwriting engine and autonomous execution workflows. This role involves building and later scaling an AI team to drive end-to-end autonomous procurement for major U.S. distributors and retailers.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- The entire AI roadmap — architecture, modeling strategy, evals, and shipping. No committee. No handoffs. Your call.
- The supplier underwriting engine — an API-driven system that can risk-rate any supplier on the planet, starting with one of the hardest data environments in the world: China.
- Agentic execution — workflows that take a purchase from "we need 40 containers of X" to goods on the water, autonomously.
- The future AI team — you'll be a hands‑on builder first, then hire and lead the people who scale your systems.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- You've shipped production LLM or agent systems that real users depend on — not demos, not papers alone
- Research-grade depth with product-grade instincts (DeepMind, FAIR, OpenAI, Anthropic, or elite applied ML teams are the profile, not the requirement)
- You run toward ambiguity: no spec, no PM — a hard problem, direct access to customers, and full authority to solve it
- You see what we see: supply chain is one of the largest, least-automated markets AI will ever touch, and the window to own it is right now