Our client is a venture-backed AI and Neurotechnology company building next-generation brain-computer interface and intelligent computing systems. Led by a team of industry leaders, the company is assembling a world-class team to tackle some of the most ambitious challenges in AI, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction.

With significant funding secured, a rapidly growing international team, and major expansion plans across Asia, Europe, and the United States, they are now seeking a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence to build and lead their AI organisation from the ground up.

IMPORTANT: This position requires international relocation. If you are open to exploring a relocation opportunity and would like to learn more, please apply.

The role

As Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, you will define and execute the company’s AI strategy, architecture, and technical roadmap. This is a highly entrepreneurial leadership role focused on building AI systems, teams, and capabilities from zero to one.

You will have significant autonomy, immediate hiring authority, and the opportunity to build an AI organisation within a fast-growing company. The ideal candidate is not simply an AI researcher or manager, but a builder who has helped create large-scale AI systems, understands frontier models and AI infrastructure, and can assemble and lead a world-class team.

Key responsibilities

• Define the long-term AI vision, technical architecture, and execution roadmap for the organisation.

• Build and lead a high-performing AI team, including hiring key researchers, engineers, and technical specialists.

• Design and oversee the development of scalable AI systems, foundation model integrations, reasoning systems, multimodal architectures, and next-generation intelligent products.

• Work closely with executive leadership to identify strategic opportunities where AI can accelerate product development and company growth.

• Establish engineering best practices, technical standards, and development processes across the AI organisation.

• Drive rapid experimentation, prototyping, and deployment of AI capabilities in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate ambitious concepts into real-world products and capabilities.

• Act as a technical leader and mentor, contributing both strategically and hands-on when required.

Required experience and qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering, or related technical fields.

• Demonstrated experience building and scaling complex AI systems, products, or platforms.

• Strong understanding of modern AI architectures, large language models, reasoning systems, multimodal AI, agents, reinforcement learning, or related frontier AI technologies.

• Track record of leading major technical initiatives from concept through deployment.

• Experience hiring, building, and developing high-performing technical teams.

• Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to operate across research, engineering, product, and business functions.

• Previous experience within leading AI organisations, advanced research environments, high-growth startups, or large-scale technology companies is highly desirable.

• Entrepreneurial mentality with a passion for solving difficult technical problems and operating in highly ambitious environments.

Preferred background

• Experience building and deploying large-scale AI systems, foundation models, agentic systems, reasoning frameworks, or multimodal AI platforms.

• Experience leading AI research, engineering, infrastructure, or platform teams.

• History of building teams, products, or organisations in a zero-to-one or early-stage environment.

• Experience operating at the intersection of research and production, translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into real-world products.

• Strong interest in shaping the future of intelligent systems and next-generation human-computer interaction.

Your consultant

As a Recruitment Consultant at Aspire Life Sciences, Taylor Lyons specialises in executive and technical hiring across AI, DeepTech, Medical Devices, and emerging technology sectors. Taylor works closely with venture-backed and high-growth organisations to identify exceptional technical leaders capable of building world-class teams and technologies. With experience supporting searches across Europe, North America, and Asia, Taylor focuses on connecting ambitious companies with the individuals capable of delivering transformational outcomes.