Head of AI

Aventis Solutions is igniting the AI revolution: Now, our tech partner is establishing a new AI Innovation Hub in Pune, India, and we are hiring a Head of AI (Chief AI Officer / VP/Head of Artificial Intelligence) to lead it. This is a flagship role within a rapidly scaling fintech, designed to drive the adoption of AI and GenAI across products, platforms and customer solutions. The mandate is clear: build an elite innovation hub that pioneers the application of large language models, autonomous agents and next-generation data platforms in financial services.

You will report directly to the executive leadership team and work alongside global engineering and product groups. From day one, you will set the technical and strategic vision, hire and grow the team, and deliver applied AI solutions that scale across the business.

Key Details:

• Location:

  Offices in Pune, India (with global collaboration across the US and UK)

• Compensation:

  Highly competitive base, performance bonus and equity options

• Career Outlook:

  Build and scale the hub into a centre of excellence, with global visibility and future opportunities

What You Will Lead:

• Establish and grow the AI Innovation Hub, hiring top engineers, data scientists and product specialists
• Define the enterprise AI strategy, from infrastructure to applied product innovation
• Drive development of AI-native platforms, autonomous workflows and cloud-integrated decision engines
• Oversee applied research in LLMs, vector databases, RAG pipelines and advanced orchestration frameworks
• Partner with business units to translate AI capability into revenue-driving products and services
• Lead governance, ethics and responsible AI frameworks to ensure adoption is safe, compliant and trusted
• Represent the company externally with partners, vendors and at industry events, showcasing the hub’s innovations

Role Overview:

This is not an AI team bolted onto existing systems. This is a leadership mandate to create a new hub that shapes the company’s future. You will define how financial technology leverages AI at scale, with global resources behind you and a blank canvas to innovate.

If you are an AI, data or information technology leader who wants to build something world-class in one of India’s fastest-growing tech ecosystems, this is the opportunity to make it happen.

For the same company, we're hiring:

• 5x AI/ML Software Engineers
• 10x Data Engineers
• 5x Business Analysts
• 3x Product Managers
• 10x Platform Engineers
• 4x more senior leadership positions.

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Aventis Solutions is acting on behalf of our partner.