AI & Automation Lead (f/m/x)
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Job description
Lead lemon.markets' first dedicated AI function, making AI a safe, practical and measurable part of how the whole company works. The role reports to the VP Engineering and spans Engineering, Finance, Operations, Compliance, Product, Sales, Partner Management and People.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Berlin (Hybrid)
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Lead the AI function and work with department heads across lemon.markets to identify, prioritise and deliver use cases that create measurable business value beyond Engineering
- Build a transparent, evidence-based portfolio of AI initiatives with business owners, baselines, success metrics and appropriate guardrails
- Enable teams across the company to use AI effectively themselves by developing practical workflows, guidance and capabilities
- Set the standards for the governed AI platform with Engineering, including model selection, evaluation, access controls, data protection, human approval points and reliable fallback processes
- Partner with Risk Management, Compliance and Finance to ensure AI use cases meet regulatory expectations and receive appropriate independent review and sign-off
- Establish a measurement framework that connects efficiency gains to quality, risk and customer outcomes
- Lead and grow a team of AI Engineers and Data Scientists, setting priorities and using demonstrated demand and measurable impact to guide future investment
What we're looking for
- Shipped applied AI or data solutions into production and managed use cases from discovery through implementation, measurement and improvement
- Driven adoption beyond Engineering, helping teams such as Finance, Operations, Compliance, Sales or Product improve how they work
- Experience in a regulated or highly controlled environment with understanding of governance, independent scrutiny and clear lines of responsibility
- Rigorous about measurement: establishing baselines, defining quality guardrails and assessing full impact before scaling
- Understand the economics of AI, including inference costs, model routing, evaluation and the difference between an assistant and an autonomous workflow
- Technically credible and hands-on enough to work effectively with engineers, with working understanding of retrieval, access controls, evaluation and AI security risks
- Take ownership and communicate clearly, challenging assumptions and building trust with senior stakeholders and control functions
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change, enjoying building a new function
- Fluent in English
Nice to have
- Knowledge of German is a major advantage given our regulatory environment and our parent company
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About lemon.markets
lemon.markets builds infrastructure for financial services and technology companies powering the next generation of investment products. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant, abstracting complexity for partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework.
Mission
We grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses, providing seamless access to capital markets. We enable everyone to be an investor.
Key facts
- API-first brokerage infrastructure
- Enables partners to launch investment products in weeks, not months
- Operates in a clear regulatory framework