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About the Role

IF is seeking a Technical Director to help organizations design and build trustworthy AI-enabled products and services. This role involves shaping, supporting, and growing the company's technology approach in client work, balancing technical strategy with delivery, managing technical practitioners, and collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver prototypes and proofs of concept. The role also includes contributing to business development, client relationship building, and broader new business and marketing efforts.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic technical guidance across multiple projects, shaping the overall technology approach.
Help project teams understand relevant technical opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs.
Ensure a strong and coherent technical narrative within project work and articulate the role of technology clearly to clients.
Support engineers and technical practitioners, ensuring effective collaboration and acting as the senior technical voice.
Occasionally play a hands-on role in specific technical deliverables.
Ensure project teams deliver high-quality technical deliverables aligned with agreed outcomes.
Help qualify, shape, and respond to new business opportunities, identifying avenues to sell technical capabilities.
Build relationships across industries to promote IF's technical capabilities to potential clients.
Identify opportunities to leverage technical capabilities to extend existing work or start new initiatives.
Contribute to IF’s thought leadership content through blogs, frameworks, and tool development.
Ensure the company understands the role of technology in delivering impactful client work.
Be accountable for hiring new engineers and technologists, building a high-quality technical capability.
Lead the development of IF’s technical practice, creating necessary guidance, processes, and tools.
Coach and provide regular feedback to teams, driving performance and supporting progression.

Requirements

Engineering background with hands-on experience launching and supporting multiple digital products and services.
Breadth of experience with different AI solutions and technologies, with a solid understanding of both theory and practice.
Experience supporting and managing senior engineers/technical practitioners within multi-disciplinary teams.
Confidence in shaping technical strategy and defining technical architectures.
Experience in consulting and comfort leading client sessions.
Experience coaching and developing a practice of technical practitioners.
Ability to define a clear picture of good quality and implement processes/tools for consistent high-quality technical deliverables.
Commercially minded with an understanding of aligning technology approaches with organizational strategy and budget.
Track record of helping win new work for a consultancy.
Interest in and experience of speaking at conferences, engaging in communities of interest, and contributing to open source projects.
Low ego, compassionate individual who works hard within an environment that cares about its people and impact.
Positive influence within work cultures, bringing focus and clarity to teams.
Brilliant communicator, able to craft compelling stories, present work with clarity, and write succinctly.
Ability to enable healthy team dynamics that encourage critical opinions for good decision-making.

Skills

AI solutions and technologies
Technical strategy
Technical architecture
Consulting
Client management
Coaching
Team leadership
Communication
Storytelling
Technical writing
Business development
Thought leadership

Location

London
Commutable distance to London

Work Type

Remote-first
Hybrid
Onsite (for specific client work and Wednesday studio days)

Experience Level

Director level
Senior technical guidance
Managing senior engineers

Salary/Compensations

£110,000-£125,000

Benefits

25 days paid time off plus bank holidays (approx. 33 days total)
Christmas closure
Week-long summer closure
5 days paid emergency carers leave
Enhanced parental leave
Proactive approach to work-life balance
Flexibility
Support for individual needs

About the Company

IF helps organizations design and build trustworthy AI-enabled products and services.
IF is a small but growing team.
IF is largely a remote-first team.
IF has a studio in Shoreditch.
IF encourages a balanced way of working, being ambitious and hardworking while offering flexibility and appreciating life outside work.
IF is creating an environment for fulfilling work with a commitment to collective care and wellbeing.
IF's core hours are 10:00-16:00, Monday to Friday.
IF has 'Focus Fridays' which are meeting-free by default for focused work and thinking time.
IF has a thoughtful approach to sync vs. async work, designing communication and collaboration for deep-work.
IF values people and the impact they have on the world.