About Us
At Artisan, we're reimagining work with AI Employees—Artisans—and software that cuts through the complexity of endless point solutions. Our first act? An AI Business Development Representative named Ava, backed by a platform packed with B2B data, AI email sequences, and deliverability magic.
We're not just growing, we're rocketing. Our recent $25M Series A from top-tier investors proves we're building something big. We're on a mission to become a multi-billion dollar company, and we need exceptional talent to make it happen.
About the Role
We're pushing the boundaries of autonomous software—creating agents that don't just help, but completely own workflows. As our Head of AI, you'll be the architect of our core AI systems, driving Ava and future Artisans to new heights.
This isn't a typical management role. You'll blend hands-on engineering, strategic vision, and team building to redefine what's possible with agentic AI.
Forget managing a roadmap—you'll be inventing the future of work. From deploying fully autonomous agents to building adaptive learning systems that span users and industries, you'll be the key to making Ava smarter, faster, and more impactful every single day.
What You'll Do
Define and lead the technical roadmap for all AI initiatives—LLM pipelines, reasoning systems, agent architecture, and adaptive feedback loops.
Build and scale a world-class team of ML, applied AI, and agentic system engineers.
Architect and oversee the development of end-to-end agentic workflows—from prompt design to tool orchestration to behavior modeling.
Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and design to embed intelligent behaviors throughout our user experience.
Stay on the edge of LLM, RLHF, RAG, and agentic research—and drive rapid implementation of relevant innovations.
Establish safety, performance, and observability standards for all AI systems in production.
What You Bring
6+ years of experience in ML/AI, with 2+ years in technical leadership roles (staff engineer, team lead, or higher).
Deep experience working with LLMs in production (e.g., fine-tuning, prompt chaining, agent design, vector databases).
Strong backend engineering skills in Python and fluency in modern MLOps and orchestration tools (MLflow, LangChain, LangGraph, etc).
Proven success building and scaling real-world AI applications and systems with measurable impact.
Strategic thinker with strong execution skills—comfortable making architectural decisions while staying close to the code when needed.
Excellent communicator and cross-functional collaborator; comfortable aligning stakeholders and mentoring technical talent.
Why Join Us
Build the future of work by pioneering a new AI-native product category.
Collaborate with a mission-driven, ambitious, and high-caliber team.
Competitive salary, generous equity, and full benefits.
Regular company off-sites and team events.
Fast-moving culture where you'll ship meaningful work every week.
