Head of Applied AI

Defence/SC Clearance Requirements:

SC clearance is required for our customer facing teams. You do not need active SC clearance as we will undertake checks upon you joining, but you must be eligible to pass SC clearance. DV clearance may be required for certain roles, so the ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential.

Cloudscaler is a rapidly growing cloud consultancy. We partner with ambitious enterprise and public sector customers to design, build, operate, and support secure, governed cloud platforms that meet the highest regulatory and industry standards.

We are scaling deliberately. Our revenue ambition depends on deploying the right people onto the right work quickly, and on making disciplined use of our capacity. This role is central to that.

Cloudscaler's Applied AI business unit launched at the start of 2026 and has grown quickly, with an established offering, live client engagements and a pipeline in place. The current Head of Applied AI is stepping back from the role for personal reasons and remains with the business to hand over, so the incoming Head inherits a running unit rather than a standing start. We are recruiting to take it into its next phase of growth.

The work is running; the structure is not yet. Offerings are defined, collateral exists, engagements are live and Cloudscaler's public voice on applied AI is established. What does not yet exist is the shape around it: there is no ring-fenced team, no separate P&L and no formally defined roles. The unit began with strategy, technical expertise and sales all held in one place. Technical capability has grown since; strategy and commercial ownership have not. Formalising the practice - defining the team, the roles and the commercial structure - is part of the job rather than something the incoming Head inherits finished.

This role has both external and internal responsibilities:

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