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AI Lead
New York
$110 - $130
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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AI Lead
New York City, Remote or Hybrid
This six-month contract offers the opportunity to shape and deliver innovative AI solutions within a fast-paced project environment. You will combine technical leadership with hands-on development, helping transform emerging AI capabilities into practical products, prototypes, and experiences.
The Company
They are an innovation-focused organization that partners with businesses to explore new opportunities through technology and product development. Their teams work across strategy, design, product, and engineering to solve complex challenges and bring new ideas to life. This project provides exposure to cutting-edge AI initiatives with a strong emphasis on practical delivery and experimentation.
The Role and Deliverables
- Lead the AI strategy and technical direction for a major innovation project.
- Design, build, and rapidly iterate AI-powered prototypes and experiences.
- Develop prompts, agents, AI workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions.
- Explore and implement agentic AI architectures, including orchestration and multi-agent approaches.
- Integrate AI solutions with APIs, workflows, and existing systems.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to move quickly from concept through to working prototypes while providing technical leadership throughout the engagement.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience building Generative AI and LLM-powered applications.
- Proven capability in prompt engineering, prompt architecture, and AI workflow design.
- Experience developing AI agents and agentic workflows.
- Strong knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI application development.
- Experience with agent orchestration and multi-agent architecture patterns.
- Ability to evaluate AI technologies and select the most appropriate solutions for different use cases.
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Power Platform, or similar AI development environments.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders.

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Engineering Lead – AI & Emerging Technology
New York
$110 - $130
+ Data Engineering
ContractNew York
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Engineering Lead – AI & Emerging Technology
Contract Opportunity | 6-Month Engagement | 40 Hours/Week
Location: Hyrbid (NYC Office)
Duration: 6 Months
Utilization: 40 Hours per Week
Rate: $110-$130/hr – W2
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive the technical direction and delivery of an innovative AI-focused initiative. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong combination of technical expertise, engineering judgment, and rapid prototyping capabilities.
The ideal candidate will have experience building and deploying AI-powered solutions, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to transform emerging concepts into functional prototypes and interactive experiences. This role requires someone who enjoys experimenting with cutting-edge technologies while maintaining a practical approach to execution and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy and engineering execution for an AI and emerging technology initiative.
- Design and develop rapid prototypes utilizing technologies such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Power Platform, and comparable AI development ecosystems.
- Build, test, and optimize AI agents, prompt frameworks, and agent-driven workflows.
- Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions that connect AI applications to enterprise data sources.
- Develop integrations between AI applications, APIs, workflows, and third-party systems.
- Create interactive prototypes, simulations, proof-of-concepts, and user experiences that demonstrate business value.
- Collaborate with product, design, strategy, and business stakeholders to evaluate technical feasibility and delivery approaches.
- Make sound architectural decisions balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and innovation.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while remaining actively involved in hands-on development.
- Rapidly iterate solutions based on testing, stakeholder feedback, and evolving requirements.
Required Qualifications
AI & Microsoft Technology Stack
- Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Azure AI Services
- Azure OpenAI
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Comparable enterprise AI development platforms and tooling
AI Engineering & Application Development
- Prompt engineering and prompt design
- AI agent architecture and development
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- LLM-based application development
- Workflow automation
- API development and integration
- Connecting AI applications with enterprise systems and data sources
Product Development & Prototyping
- Developing proof-of-concepts and functional prototypes under tight timelines
- Converting ambiguous concepts into tangible technical solutions
- Building interactive applications, simulations, or digital experiences
- Thriving in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements and priorities
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with agent orchestration platforms and multi-agent architectures.
- Background in consulting, innovation labs, venture studios, product development organizations, or similar environments focused on rapid experimentation and iterative delivery.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and applying them to real-world business challenges.
Desired Attributes
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Hands-On: Actively engaged in architecture, development, and problem-solving.
- Innovative: Passionate about exploring emerging AI technologies and experimentation.
- Business-Oriented: Understands how technical solutions drive business outcomes.
- Pragmatic: Knows when to engineer for scale versus when to optimize for speed.
- Collaborative: Effective working across technical and non-technical teams.
- Adaptable: Comfortable operating in environments with evolving requirements.
- Technical Leader: Able to provide guidance, influence decisions, and build stakeholder confidence

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AI Lead
New York
$110 - $130
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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AI Lead
Harnham is partnering with a leading organisation to hire an AI Lead to drive the development of innovative AI-powered products and solutions.
- Role: AI Lead
- Location: Hybrid in NYC
- Rate: $110 – $130 per hour W2
- Length: 6 months
- Utilisation: 40 hours/week
The Role
You’ll lead the design, development, and delivery of AI solutions, combining strategic oversight with hands-on technical execution. Working across product, design, and engineering teams, you’ll turn AI concepts into working prototypes and scalable applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead AI strategy and technical direction.
- Design and build Generative AI and LLM-powered solutions.
- Develop AI agents, workflows, and orchestration frameworks.
- Build RAG solutions leveraging enterprise data sources.
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and technologies.
- Integrate AI solutions with APIs and business systems.
- Rapidly prototype and validate new concepts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver business value.
- Provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building GenAI and LLM applications.
- Expertise in RAG architectures and AI orchestration.
- Strong software engineering and API integration skills.
- Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Azure AI and Azure OpenAI.
- Microsoft Power Platform.
- Experience delivering innovation or greenfield AI initiatives.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AI Lead, AI Architect, or Applied AI Engineer looking to shape AI strategy and build impactful AI solutions in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.

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Senior AI Product Engineer II
San Francisco
$192000 - $259000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Senior AI Product Engineer II
$192,000-$249,000 + Equity
3 days/week on-site
Overview
A fast-growing SaaS organization is seeking a Senior AI Product Engineer to develop and deliver AI-powered product experiences. This role focuses on transforming large language model (LLM) capabilities, retrieval systems, and agent-based workflows into intuitive, production-ready customer features.
The ideal candidate combines strong full-stack engineering expertise with practical experience building AI applications. You will work closely with product, design, and AI specialists to create scalable, user-centric solutions that improve complex business workflows through intelligent automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AI-powered product features across the full stack using modern frontend and backend technologies.
- Develop responsive user interfaces that support real-time and streaming AI interactions.
- Integrate AI services, orchestration layers, retrieval systems, and agent workflows into customer-facing experiences.
- Collaborate with AI and machine learning teams to define APIs, output formats, and user interaction patterns.
- Translate sophisticated AI capabilities into practical, intuitive workflows for end users.
- Identify and improve areas where model outputs create usability challenges or inconsistent experiences.
- Build feedback mechanisms that capture user sentiment and output-quality signals to support continuous improvement.
- Implement observability and analytics for AI features, including performance, engagement, completion rates, and user adoption metrics.
- Create reusable components, state-management patterns, and frontend frameworks that accelerate future AI feature development.
- Develop and maintain automated testing strategies across frontend, backend, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical mentorship activities.
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications.
- 2+ years of experience building AI-enabled product features.
Frontend
- Strong expertise in React and TypeScript.
- Experience building highly interactive user interfaces that manage asynchronous and real-time data.
- Knowledge of modern frontend architecture and state management patterns.
Backend
- Strong proficiency in Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs for AI platforms and distributed services.
AI & Machine Learning Applications
- Hands-on experience working with commercial LLM platforms and AI APIs.
- Strong understanding of:
- Prompt engineering
- Context management
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Evaluation and quality measurement frameworks
- Structured outputs and response validation
- Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks and multi-step AI workflows.
Real-Time Systems
- Experience implementing streaming architectures using technologies such as:
- Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- WebSockets
- Streaming HTTP responses
Product & Collaboration
- Strong product mindset with a focus on usability and customer outcomes.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product management, design, and AI/ML teams.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in governance, risk, compliance, security, audit, or other documentation-intensive enterprise domains.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI tool-use standards.
- Exposure to retrieval system design and debugging retrieval-quality issues.
- Experience creating review, annotation, or quality-feedback tooling for AI-generated outputs.
- Prior experience establishing engineering standards and mentoring team members.
Work Model / Location / Engagement Details
- Full-time position.
- Hybrid work environment with a combination of in-office collaboration and flexible remote work.
- High degree of cross-functional interaction with product, engineering, design, and AI teams.
- Opportunity to influence both product direction and AI feature strategy within a rapidly scaling organization.

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Product Data Scientist
Sheffield
£50000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSheffield, South Yorkshire
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Product Data Scientist
Hybrid – Sheffield (1x day per week)
£50,000 – £60,000
Are you a commercially minded Product Data Scientist who enjoys turning complex data into actionable insights? This is an opportunity to join a growing technology-led organisation where data plays a central role in shaping product strategy, improving customer outcomes, and driving business growth. You’ll have the chance to work across analytics, machine learning, customer journey analysis, and stakeholder engagement while influencing key business decisions.
The Company
They are a fast-growing, data-driven organisation that leverages technology to deliver impactful solutions to its customers. With a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement, they are investing heavily in their data capabilities to support future growth. Their collaborative environment brings together product, commercial, operational, and technical teams to make better decisions through data. As they continue to scale, they are looking for a Product Data Scientist to help unlock deeper insights and create measurable business value.
The Role
You will:
- Analyse customer and user journeys to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for optimisation.
- Perform exploratory data analysis to understand product usage, engagement, and conversion behaviour.
- Develop predictive models, including churn prediction, engagement scoring, demand forecasting, and propensity modelling.
- Build customer segments and behavioural cohorts to support product, marketing, and customer success initiatives.
- Translate business questions into structured analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
- Partner closely with engineering and data teams to define metrics and improve data models.
- Design and maintain dashboards, reports, and KPI frameworks for business stakeholders.
- Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support the adoption of data-driven decision making across the organisation
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a Data Scientist, Product Data Scientist, Product Analyst, or similar analytics professional.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based data warehouse environments.
- Strong Python or R capabilities for data analysis, statistical modelling, and machine learning.
- Experience building predictive models and applying analytical techniques to solve business problems.
- Understanding of customer journey analysis, funnel optimisation, retention analysis, and customer lifetime value metrics.
- Experience creating dashboards and visualisations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders, gather requirements, and translate business needs into analytical solutions.
- Experience working with modern data platforms and analytics engineering environments is beneficial.
What They Offer
- Salary of £50,000 – £60,000.
- Hybrid working arrangement based in Sheffield.
- Opportunity to influence product and business strategy through data.
- Exposure to modern technologies including Snowflake, dbt, Python, and leading BI tools.
- A collaborative environment with strong cross-functional partnership.
- Clear opportunities for professional development and career progression as the data function continues to grow.
How to Apply
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Senior Pricing Analyst
Leicester
£45000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLeicester, Leicestershire
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Senior Pricing Analyst
Hybrid – Leicester (1x day per week)
£45,000 – £60,000 + bonus
Are you a commercially minded analyst looking to make a tangible impact through data-driven pricing decisions? This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established organisation that is investing heavily in its analytics capabilities and offering genuine ownership, visibility, and career development within a high-performing team.
The Company
They are a forward-thinking organisation that places data and analytics at the centre of business decision-making. With continued investment in technology, pricing capability, and innovation, they are focused on delivering fair customer outcomes while driving sustainable business growth.
They foster a collaborative environment where analytical expertise is valued, new ideas are encouraged, and individuals have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions. This is an exciting time to join a growing team that is committed to continuous improvement and professional development.
The Role
As a Senior Pricing Analyst, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing pricing strategies that improve commercial performance and support business objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and refining pricing segmentation strategies across products and customer groups
- Analysing portfolio performance to identify pricing opportunities, trends, and emerging risks
- Developing monitoring frameworks to assess pricing effectiveness and portfolio health
- Delivering actionable insights that improve pricing accuracy and commercial outcomes
- Supporting testing and optimisation initiatives to enhance pricing performance
- Working closely with underwriting, product, commercial, and analytics teams to influence business decisions
- Communicating complex analytical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Contributing to the ongoing development of pricing and analytics capabilities across the business
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong analytical experience within pricing, modelling, forecasting, or quantitative analysis
- Understanding of insurance pricing principles, segmentation methodologies, or similar commercial analytics functions
- Experience using analytical tools such as Python, SQL, R, SAS, or comparable technologies
- Ability to interpret complex datasets and translate findings into clear business recommendations
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Commercial awareness and a data-driven approach to problem solving
- Proactive mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
What They Offer
- Salary of £45,000 – £60,000
- Hybrid working model with just 1 day per week in the Leicester office
- Performance-related bonus
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance and income protection
- Healthcare and wellbeing support
- Flexible benefits package
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Clear progression routes within a growing analytics function
- Supportive and collaborative working environment
How to Apply
If you’re interested in this Senior Pricing Analyst opportunity and would like to work in a business where analytics plays a key strategic role, apply today to learn more.

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Associate Director
London
£60000 - £70000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Associate Director Qualitative Research
Hybrid – London
£60,000 – £70,000 + Benefits
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced qualitative research leader to take ownership of a high-performing client services team within a global healthcare insights environment. You will play a key role in delivering complex research projects, developing talent, strengthening client relationships, and driving operational excellence across a growing function.
The Company
They are a global research and insights organisation supporting leading healthcare and life sciences businesses with high-quality market research solutions. Operating internationally, they deliver qualitative and quantitative research that helps clients make informed strategic decisions. With a strong focus on innovation, quality, and collaboration, they have built an excellent reputation for delivering impactful insights and exceptional client service.
The Role
As Associate Director Qualitative Research, you will lead a team responsible for delivering complex qualitative market research projects from brief to completion.
Responsibilities include:
* Leading, mentoring, and developing a client services team, supporting performance and career growth
* Managing project delivery, ensuring studies are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard
* Acting as a senior escalation point for project and client challenges, identifying solutions and driving successful outcomes
* Building strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders to enhance service delivery
* Monitoring team productivity, project quality, and commercial performance
* Collaborating with senior leadership to improve processes, systems, and operational efficiency
* Supporting the implementation of best practices across client services and project management functions
* Overseeing onboarding, training, and continuous development initiatives within the team
* Partnering with commercial teams to ensure a seamless and positive client experience
Your Skills & Experience
* Strong commercial experience within qualitative market research
* Previous experience leading, coaching, or developing research teams
* Expertise in managing multiple research projects within a fast-paced environment
* Experience working with healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences research projects
* Strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills
* Excellent project management, organisational, and problem-solving capabilities
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word
* Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on project oversight
What They Offer
* Salary of £60,000 – £70,000depending on experience
* Hybrid working model based in London
* Competitive benefits package
* Exposure to international, high-profile healthcare research programmes
* Clear opportunities for progression into more senior leadership positions
* Collaborative and supportive culture focused on professional development
How to Apply
If you are an experienced qualitative research leader looking for your next challenge, apply now to discuss this Associate Director Qualitative Research opportunity in confidence.

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Customer Insights Analyst
Leeds
£40000 - £380000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLeeds, West Yorkshire
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Customer Insight Analyst
£40,000
Hybrid – Leeds (2x days per week)
Looking for a role where you can combine marketing analytics, customer insights, and data visualisation to influence business decisions? This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing data function where your analysis will directly shape marketing performance, customer strategy, and commercial outcomes.
The Company
They are a well-established organisation with a specialist data and analytics team at the centre of the business. Working across a diverse portfolio of projects, they help stakeholders unlock value from customer and marketing data through advanced analytics and insight-led decision making. They foster a collaborative culture where analytical thinking, innovation, and professional development are encouraged. This role offers exposure to a wide range of industries, datasets, and business challenges.
The Role
You will work across customer and marketing analytics projects, helping stakeholders understand behaviour, optimise performance, and make data-driven decisions.
Responsibilities include:
- Analysing customer behaviour, loyalty, retention, and purchasing trends
- Evaluating marketing effectiveness across digital and paid media channels
- Developing dashboards and data visualisations using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar tools
- Conducting detailed analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and performance drivers
- Presenting insights and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and engaging way
- Building reports and presentations that translate complex data into actionable business outcomes
- Supporting wider analytics initiatives, strategic projects, and product development activities
- Working with both internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver impactful insight-led solutions
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience within marketing analytics and customer analytics
- Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation, analysis, and pivot tables
- Experience using Python for data analysis and insight generation
- Strong dashboard development and data visualisation capabilities
- Experience presenting insights through PowerPoint and stakeholder-facing presentations
- Understanding of marketing KPIs such as ROAS, CTR, CPL, conversion rate, and campaign performance metrics
- Ability to identify patterns in data and translate findings into strategic recommendations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Exposure to tools such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, GA4, Adobe Analytics, DV360, or similar marketing platforms would be beneficial
- A curious, problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage multiple projects effectively
What They Offer
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working model
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave
- Paid volunteering day each year
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Clear opportunities for career development within a growing analytics function
- Exposure to a broad range of analytical challenges and stakeholders
How to Apply
If you are passionate about marketing analytics, customer insights, and turning data into meaningful business impact, apply today to discuss this opportunity in confidence.

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