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# Director of Technology - AI

- **Company:** Digital Catapult
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £110,000.0 - £130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** July 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-1FAA6F38F7229C11DC/

## About the Role

* A visible and respected leader within AI, with a proven ability to represent an organisation through thought leadership, publications, conferences and industry events. Track record of building strategic partnerships across academia, industry and government.
 * Demonstrable experience defining and delivering technology strategy, horizon scanning, roadmaps and research agendas.
 * Strong understanding of contemporary AI technologies, including agentic AI, AI assurance, neuro-symbolic AI, post-LLM approaches.
 * Experience securing collaborative research and innovation funding, including grant-funded programmes. Strong commercial awareness with experience identifying opportunities for technology translation and future commercialisation.
 * Significant experience leading technology research, development and innovation programmes in AI, and leading multi-disciplinary technical teams within a research, innovation, technology or R&D environment.
 * Track record in building teams and AI capability, promoting a culture of learning, excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement, and supporting early stage careers.

## Description

Reporting to the CTO, the Director of Technology AI will play a critical role in leading the AI portfolio of work, defining and driving the technology roadmap for AI and related areas, creating and delivering collaborative research, development and technology translation programmes with university and industry partners and innovators.

The role provides an opportunity to both investigate new and emerging AI technologies with academia and innovators, and also experiment with more practical adoption with end users and industry. To both experiment with new capabilities and understand the practical implications and limitations of AI technology and feed that back to the UK ecosystem, and policy makers.

WHAT YOU LL DO (Duties)

 * Be a collaborative and ambitious leader and expert in AI across Digital Catapult.
 * Direct and enable a high quality programme of research and development in AI, securing funding via R&D projects and supporting commercial opportunities.
 * Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including innovators, startups and scaleups, government, academic institutions, industry partners, building a productive network in support of our research ambitions and goals. Represent Digital Catapult at industry events, conferences, and public engagements.
 * Be part of the Technology Research, Development and Innovation leadership team, overseeing the execution and evaluation of activities in programmes, projects and technology exploitation
 * Lead and mentor a diverse team, coach and guide immediate reports, and the AI related team members across the wider organisation, building capability in AI
 * Supervise and deliver horizon scanning, developing the technology roadmap and plans in AI and related areas, supporting other teams to enable their areas to be similarly well defined in relation to AI.


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