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Product Lead, AI Platform
San Francisco, CA
$300000 - $450000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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AI PLATFORM STRATEGY LEAD
US-BASED | REMOTE
DIRECTOR / VP-LEVEL INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR
The Opportunity
Join a small, highly influential team helping shape how AI is applied across a growing organization.
Rather than building AI products yourself, you’ll determine where AI can create the greatest business impact and help turn those opportunities into scalable solutions.
You’ll work closely with senior business leaders and engineers, connecting real-world business challenges with practical AI capabilities and guiding the long-term direction of an AI platform built specifically for the organization’s needs.
What You’ll Do
- Discover and evaluate opportunities where AI can drive meaningful business outcomes
- Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand workflows, challenges, and priorities
- Develop and prioritize a portfolio of AI initiatives based on value, impact, and feasibility
- Validate concepts through rapid experimentation and prototyping before investing engineering resources
- Collaborate closely with engineers to shape platform capabilities and long-term strategy
- Balance competing requests and align stakeholders around a clear direction
- Continuously test assumptions and refine priorities as new information emerges
What We’re Looking For
- Experience leading product, platform, or strategic AI initiatives
- Strong understanding of generative AI and how it can solve real business problems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to create structure and direction in highly ambiguous environments
- Track record of translating ideas into measurable business impact
- Comfort working alongside engineers while remaining focused on business outcomes
- Strong judgment, prioritization skills, and ownership mentality
- Builder mindset with a willingness to experiment and challenge assumptions
Nice to Have
- Experience launching AI-enabled products or internal platforms
- Background in enterprise software, consulting, investing, or operational strategy
- Hands-on experience using modern AI tools to prototype and test concepts
- Experience with platform products or cross-functional organizational initiatives
- Success operating in startup, transformation, or 0→1 environments
Why This Role
- Influence how AI is applied across an entire organization
- Own strategic direction rather than project execution
- Partner directly with senior leaders and decision-makers
- Help define and evolve a purpose-built AI platform
- Operate with significant autonomy and visibility
- Join a lean, high-impact team focused on results over bureaucracy
If you’re excited about finding high-value AI opportunities, shaping product and platform strategy, and helping an organization unlock the full potential of AI, this is a unique chance to make a lasting impact.
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Senior AI Engineer – Adtech Startup
New York
$200000 - $225000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentNew York
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Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Systems
Remote (NYC HQ)
$200,000-225,000 Base Salary + Equity
THE COMPANY
Harnham is partnering with a high-growth AI-native technology company building a next-generation platform for the advertising and marketing industry. The business is transforming how organizations execute campaign strategy, creative development, media activation, and performance reporting through intelligent automation and autonomous workflows.
This is an opportunity to join a highly experienced engineering team at a pivotal stage of growth, helping shape both customer-facing AI capabilities and the internal engineering practices that will define the company’s future.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and build production-grade agentic workflows, orchestration systems, tool integrations, and autonomous task execution capabilities.
- Partner with Product teams to translate complex advertising and marketing processes into reliable, agent-driven solutions.
- Develop the foundations required for deploying trustworthy AI systems, including evaluation frameworks, observability, guardrails, monitoring, and failure handling.
- Integrate AI-driven workflows with third-party advertising, marketing, analytics, and enterprise data platforms.
- Collaborate directly with customers and technology partners to improve performance and usability of agentic features in real-world environments.
- Champion the use of modern agentic development tools and contribute to internal engineering workflows, standards, and best practices.
- Own features end-to-end, from architecture and development through testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews as a senior individual contributor within a fast-moving engineering organization.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, backend services, and data modeling.
- Proven hands-on experience building AI-powered products using LLMs, agent orchestration frameworks, tool usage patterns, or multi-agent architectures.
- Experience designing and shipping production software in startup, scale-up, or high-growth technology environments.
- Ability to work with modern integration protocols and external platform ecosystems, including agent-based architectures and workflow orchestration.
- Strong written communication skills and experience collaborating effectively within remote-first teams.
- Genuine interest in emerging AI and agentic engineering technologies, trends, and best practices.
Nice to Have
- Experience in advertising technology, marketing technology, digital media, or campaign management ecosystems.
- Experience integrating platforms such as customer data platforms, cloud data warehouses, advertising networks, or marketing analytics tools.
- Familiarity with LangChain or similar agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience running, fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying local and self-hosted LLMs.
BENEFITS
- Fully remote, US-based opportunity.
- Optional NYC office access for in-person collaboration.
- Opportunity to influence both product direction and engineering culture.
- Work alongside a senior, highly technical team building cutting-edge AI products.
- Significant ownership, autonomy, and end-to-end technical responsibility.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.
KEY TERMS
Senior Software Engineer | AI Engineering | Agentic Systems | LLMs | Multi-Agent Systems | AI Orchestration | LangChain | MCP | Model Context Protocol | Distributed Systems | Backend Engineering | AdTech | MarTech | Autonomous Workflows | Tool Integrations | Remote USA | Artificial Intelligence | Software Development | Platform Engineering | Machine Learning Applications | AI Engineer | Generative AI
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Head of Engineering – Platform
Mountain View
$280000 - $300000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentMountain View, California
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Head of Engineering – Platform
Mountain View, CA – Hybrid (3 days/week onsite)
$280,000 – $300,000 Base + Bonus + RSUs
THE COMPANY
Harnham is partnering with a Fortune 500 leader in cybersecurity that is looking for a new Engineering leader. The company combines the scale of an established enterprise with a scrappy, high-ownership culture, and is currently investing heavily in modernizing its core engineering infrastructure. This role sits within the Licensing & Shared Services Engineering organization, focused on transforming business-critical licensing and accounts platforms that power multiple products globally.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own the architecture and modernization strategy for licensing and accounts platforms.
- Lead transformation of complex backend systems, including multiple Java-based services.
- Design scalable, reusable licensing frameworks supporting multiple products and interfaces.
- Simplify integrations across products, reducing system complexity and improving maintainability.
- Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for licensing and accounts systems.
- Provide deep technical leadership across system architecture, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering teams to align strategy and execution.
- Guide integration approaches across multiple product lines and ensure system scalability and resilience.
- Mentor senior engineers and engineering leaders while scaling and strengthening the team.
- Act as a change agent, challenging legacy systems and driving modernization initiatives.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant leadership experience.
- 5+ years at Director-level or above.
- Deep expertise in backend systems, particularly Java-based architectures.
- Strong experience in system design, platform architecture, and large-scale system transformation.
- Proven experience owning and executing technical roadmaps for complex platforms.
- Experience managing and influencing teams of 20+ engineers in highly cross-functional environments.
- Strong experience designing integrations across multiple systems and product ecosystems.
- Ability to simplify complex technical domains and drive architectural clarity.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering and business teams.
PREFFERED EXPERIENCE
- Experience with licensing, entitlement, or accounts platforms.
- Experience designing reusable frameworks for product scalability.
- Experience with cloud modernization initiatives.
- Exposure to regulated or legally constrained systems.
- Background in high-scale consumer or enterprise platforms.
BENEFITS
The compensation package includes a competitive base salary, 30% annual bonus, RSUs with significant flexibility, and a comprehensive benefits package.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your CV via the Apply link on this page to register your interest.
KEY TERMS
Software Engineering Leadership | Platform Architecture | Java | Backend Systems | Licensing Systems | Entitlement Systems | Shared Services | System Modernization | Cloud | Enterprise Systems | Integration | Scalable Platforms | Cybersecurity | Technical Leadership | Product Engineering | Scale | Fortune 500 | Migration
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Sr Data Engineer
Dallas
$140000 - $160000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentDallas, Texas
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Senior Data Engineer (Dallas, TX)
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a growing organization in the Dallas area and play a key role in a newly launched cloud data platform initiative. This position will partner closely with stakeholders across the business to build and maintain reporting and analytics capabilities while supporting a modern data stack.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain data pipelines and transformations using Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python
- Support and optimize data integrations across multiple business systems
- Take ownership of the data environment following an initial implementation phase
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate technical concepts into clear, actionable insights
- Contribute to reporting, analytics, and data modeling initiatives
- Ensure data quality, performance, and scalability across the platform
Requirements:
- 7+ years of data engineering or analytics engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python
- Experience building and managing modern cloud data pipelines
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to explain technical solutions to non-technical audiences
- Local to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and able to work onsite 3 days per week
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with modern ELT tools and reporting platforms
- Exposure to AI-enabled analytics capabilities
- Background supporting operational or field-service organizations
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Compensation: $140,000 – $160,000 base salary + benefits
This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a growing data platform, work closely with business leaders, and have a direct impact on the organization’s analytics strategy.
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Power BI & Application Developer – AI
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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POWER BI & APPLICATION DEVELOPER – AI
LONDON/HYBRID
UP TO £75,000
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the next generation of analytics solutions, combining Power BI, application development, and emerging AI technologies to create innovative, client-facing products.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Power BI & Application Developer – AI will:
- Develop and maintain client-facing analytics applications and reporting products
- Design and enhance Power BI dashboards, visualisations, and reporting solutions
- Integrate AI technologies, large language models, and agentic workflows into applications
- Support the migration of traditional reporting outputs into scalable analytics products
- Build executive-level dashboards and delivering actionable business insights
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Architecture teams
- Deliver client demonstrations, presentations, training, and solution walkthroughs
- Create intuitive user experiences that make complex analytics accessible and impactful
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong Power BI development skills, including DAX, dashboard creation, and reporting best practice
- Solid SQL capability
- Experience building and developing applications or customer-facing digital solutions
- Exposure to AI technologies and large language model integrations
- Experience with agentic AI workflows and automation
- Knowledge of Model Context Protocols (MCPs)
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience delivering executive-level reporting and analytics solutions
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
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Power BI Developer
London
£275 - £300
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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POWER BI DEVELOPER
£275-300 per day | Outside IR35 | 4 Days Per Week | Hybrid London (occasional travel) | Until December 2026
THE COMPANY
An established digital marketing and analytics consultancy is looking for a skilled Power BI Developer to support the delivery of a large-scale marketing attribution programme for a major enterprise client. You’ll join a collaborative analytics team working across data engineering, reporting and insight functions to build impactful reporting solutions used by senior stakeholders.
THE ROLE
As a Power BI Developer, you will take ownership of the reporting layer within a cloud-based analytics environment. Working closely with both client stakeholders and technical teams, you’ll design, build and maintain Power BI dashboards that provide actionable insight into marketing performance.
This is a hands-on delivery role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, data modelling expertise and the ability to turn complex requirements into intuitive reporting solutions.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Gather and define reporting requirements with senior business stakeholders
- Design and develop Power BI dashboards and reports
- Build robust data models using DAX and Power Query
- Connect Power BI to cloud-based data platforms, primarily BigQuery
- Work alongside data engineering teams to ensure reporting requirements are met
- Deliver meaningful insights that support business decision-making
- Produce clear documentation to support knowledge transfer and future handover
- Collaborate across UK-based and international teams
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong Power BI development experience
- Advanced DAX, Power Query and data modelling skills
- Experience working with cloud data platforms such as GCP and BigQuery
- Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering experience
- Ability to translate data into clear business insights
- Experience working within cross-functional delivery teams
- Strong documentation and communication skills
NICE TO HAVE
- Marketing analytics, measurement or attribution experience
- SQL and BigQuery expertise
- Exposure to dbt or similar transformation tools
- Agency or consultancy experience
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Technical Business Analyst
London
£500 - £600
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
ContractLondon
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Technical Business Analyst (Data Governance & Data Marketplace)
£500-600 per day (Inside IR35 TBC)
6 Month Contract
Hybrid – Birmingham
THE COMPANY
A leading public sector organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a high-profile Data Marketplace programme. Working at the forefront of data sharing, governance and collaboration, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing frameworks that enable trusted, scalable data exchange across a broad network of stakeholders.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll sit at the intersection of business analysis, data governance and stakeholder management. You’ll be responsible for shaping governance frameworks, data standards and operating models that support the successful delivery of a large-scale data sharing initiative.
Working closely with technical teams, programme leadership, legal and commercial stakeholders, you’ll translate strategic objectives into practical governance standards, documentation and delivery artefacts.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and document data governance frameworks and operating models
- Develop data taxonomies, metadata standards and schema guidance
- Create data-sharing agreements, governance rulebooks and supporting documentation
- Run workshops and requirements gathering sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure governance requirements are reflected within the technical solution
- Produce business analysis artefacts including process maps, TOMs, requirements documents and RACI matrices
- Support programme governance, steering groups, risk management and reporting
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
The successful candidate will have:
- Proven Senior Business Analyst experience within complex data-led programmes
- Strong data governance experience covering data ownership, stewardship, access controls and data quality
- Experience developing data models, taxonomies and metadata standards
- Knowledge of Databricks, Unity Catalog or comparable data governance platforms
- Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
- Strong documentation skills, including governance frameworks and requirements gathering
- Understanding of UK GDPR, Data Protection and information security principles
DESIRABLE
- Experience working on data marketplace or data exchange initiatives
- Public sector experience
- Knowledge of accreditation, assurance or compliance frameworks
- Experience working with large-scale data transformation programmes
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Data Engineer
London
£400 - £420
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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*** Data Engineer ***
I’m partnered with a leading organisation that’s looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join their Data Platform team on an initial 6-month contract, working across a major GCP data platform programme.
Rate: £400-420 per day, Inside IR35
Location: London – Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite
Duration: 6 months
The role will focus on GCP, BigQuery, Python, Airflow/Cloud Composer, dbt, Terraform and CI/CD, working closely with architects, engineers, product and governance teams to deliver secure, scalable data solutions.
Key experience:
- GCP & BigQuery
- Python, Airflow & dbt
- Terraform & CI/CD
- Data platforms / lakehouse environments
- Kubernetes
- AWS alongside GCP
- Strong stakeholder management
If this sounds relevant to you, please drop me a message or send your CV
Thanks,
Callum
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