Head of AI - Credit-Focused Hedge Fund - up to £400k Total Compensation

Lead the AI initiatives at a small hedge fund, reporting straight into the CTO.

You’ll be setting the direction for how AI is used across a global credit-focused investment firm, and building the things you decide on. The fund invests across credit markets with a mix of fundamental, event-driven and relative value strategies. It’s a well-regarded, established manager with a London base and a US presence, managing over $1bn.

It’s a small, close-knit hedge fund with a strong culture, and it has a long history of building its own technology, so there’s a substantial proprietary stack to work with and improve. You’ll report directly into the CTO and have a real say in where AI goes next.

Day to day, you'll stay hands-on. That means designing LLM applications, working out how agents should be built and orchestrated, and getting the prompt engineering right. You'll also be turning business needs into practical technical solutions, so you'll spend time with both the technologists and the people on the investment side, explaining what's possible in plain terms.

You'll need hands-on experience across AI and ML, data engineering and technical implementation. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud, containers and deployment pipelines is essential, as is experience with LLM application development, agent design and orchestration, and prompt engineering. You'll need to communicate comfortably with technical and non-technical colleagues alike. A finance background is preferred, but not essential.

The package is up to £400,000 total compensation, and we can talk through how that's made up when we speak. This is an in-office role.

Would you like to be the person who decides how a hedge fund puts AI to work? Get in touch.

No up-to-date CV required.