Head of Applied AI

Bezos.ai

Head of Applied AI leading the AI transformation at Bezos, a managed global fulfilment partner. Working directly with the CEO to optimize core functions through AI.

Posted 7/5/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will help us reinvent how Bezos runs - using AI to build a company where a small team operates like a much larger one.
You’ll go deep into how a core function actually works - the numbers, the operations, the decisions - and rebuild it around AI: automating the routine, sharpening the judgment calls, and freeing the team to do what only humans should.
You’ll sit on the Senior Leadership Team, report directly to the CEO, and have the mandate to change how things are done.
Depending on your strengths, your first mandate could lean toward finance, operations, or the product itself - the common thread is using AI to transform how a core part of the business runs.
Go deep into how a core function works and find where AI genuinely transforms it - what to automate, what to sharpen, what to rethink entirely.
Ship the agents, automations, and tools that change how the work actually gets done. Hands-on, fast, iterative.
Treat the function - and the product - like a product. Obsess over the user and the outcome, ship an MVP, measure it, and iterate.
Decide where AI creates real value vs where it’s a distraction, and prove it in time saved, cost removed, or revenue won.
Own your mandate at SLT level, raise the whole company’s AI fluency, and build a team beneath you as it scales.
Establish how we build with AI - a lightweight, practical standard the rest of the team can follow.

Requirements

What you’ll need

AI-native to the core - you already use AI every day to work faster and think bigger, and you’re genuinely excited to build with it (agents, automations, tools). You don’t need to be a professional software engineer, but you get your hands dirty.
You’ve owned and transformed something - a function, a team, a business, or your own company - and you can prove the impact.
Product mindset - you build for the user and the outcome, not the output. You ship an MVP, get feedback, and iterate, and you prioritise ruthlessly by value.
Exceptional analytical and commercial judgment - you reason from first principles, are fluent with numbers and unit economics, and know where the real value is.
High agency and bias to action - you take an ambiguous mandate and ship the 80% this week rather than plan it for a quarter.
Leadership - ready to own a function at SLT level and build a team in time; you carry the CEO’s and the board’s confidence.
Outstanding communication - you make complex things simple and influence across a business.
Startup temperament - high-energy, low-ego, thrives in ambiguity and a fast pace.
Bonus Points (Nice to Have):
Deep experience in finance, operations, or another data- and decision-heavy function
Has built AI agents / automations, or shipped AI-powered products
Founder, co-founder, or early-stage operator experience
E-commerce, logistics, supply chain, or marketplace exposure
Has led or hired a team

Benefits

Comp & perks

A founding mandate to reinvent how a core part of the business runs, working directly with a founder-CEO (ex-Bain, ex-JPMorgan, ex-Amazon Logistics) who builds AI himself
Real ownership and unusually fast scope - the ceiling on this role is set by what you can deliver, and it comes with an SLT seat
A credible path to building and leading a team as the company scales
An entrepreneurial, fast-paced, genuinely AI-native place to work
Remote-first team, meeting in person a couple of times a month
25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
Mental health support through Spill, and a free Headspace subscription

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Agents DevelopmentAutomation ImplementationMVP ShippingData AnalysisUnit Economics

Soft Skills

Outstanding CommunicationHigh AgencyBias to ActionInfluencing Skills