Head of Data Science

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Overview

future-powering workforce strategies, internal mobility, and skills forecasting. Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools, make fairer decisions, and expand access to opportunity at scale. We value the company culture we have built—trust, empathy & honesty—so our workforce can bring their full selves to work.

About the Team

Beamery Edge builds a data and computation environment for large-scale experimentation with unique data assets. We combine data, analytics, and science to develop a multimodal knowledge base that draws on both structured and unstructured sources, enabling solutions such as information extraction, entity resolution, graph-based embeddings, and search. You'll be part of a hands-on, globally distributed group tackling innovative R&D challenges that directly impact customers.

Technology Stack: Python; Agentic tools (Autogen, Semantic Kernel, LangChain); SQL; MongoDB; Third-party LLM APIs; LiteLLM; MLflow; Google Cloud Platform; Docker; PyTorch; Hugging Face Transformers; SPARQL; Kubernetes.

What You Will Be Doing at Beamery

  • Strategic AI Leadership: Define and implement the company's AI and data science strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term product vision, commercial priorities, and evolving customer needs.
  • Executive Collaboration: Serve as a key connector between the C-suite and the data organization, clearly communicating strategy, progress, risks, and opportunities to executive stakeholders.
  • Cross-Functional Translation: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Commercial leadership to translate complex data capabilities into meaningful business outcomes.
  • External Thought Leadership: Represent Beamery as an external thought leader in the AI and data science community.
  • Execution: Oversee the full lifecycle delivery of the AI project portfolio; from research through production across key areas including personalization, recommendation, analytics, and automation.
  • AI System Development: Lead the development of impactful AI systems, including scaling the company's Knowledge Graph and building agentic models to create new product experiences that deliver measurable value to customers.
  • Operational Management: Lead, grow, and support a world-class, multi-disciplinary data team across data science, applied ML/AI, and knowledge engineering.
  • Culture & Governance: Foster a culture of clarity, curiosity, and shared success that balances innovative research with customer-focused delivery. Implement and maintain robust governance, ethics, and compliance frameworks for all AI systems.

Who We're Looking For

  • You are a collaborative builder, thoughtful problem solver, and innovative thinker.
  • Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams at scale (10+ people across data science, ML, engineering, knowledge graph/ontology, and AI).
  • A strong track record of delivering AI-driven products in complex B2B or enterprise SaaS environments.
  • Expertise in engaging and communicating with senior stakeholders.
  • A strategic mindset paired with a pragmatic approach; comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs.
  • Solid grounding in applied ML/AI technologies (e.g., LLMs, graph learning, recommendation systems, optimization).
  • A passion for building mission-driven teams that combine research excellence with real-world commercial delivery.

Note: This is a hybrid role (our office is based in London) - Monday, Tuesday & Bi-weekly Friday in office.

Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, please email. Visit our site to learn more about progress and commitments.

About Beamery

Beamery's mission is to create equal access to work, skills, and careers. We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry, enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions by accelerating recruiting processes, unlocking internal mobility opportunities, enabling smarter upskilling initiatives, and facilitating agile workforce planning. Our product is used by Fortune 2000 organizations globally and enables users across 100+ countries to make smarter talent decisions and close skills gaps. We are focused on deepening native integrations with SAP, Workday, Microsoft, and LinkedIn to embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made, and embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the future.

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Location:
City Of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£150,000 - £200,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT & Technology, Other

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