Top AI Jobs in Manchester

Manage full-cycle technical recruiting for Engineering, Product, Security, UX, and R&D roles. Partner with hiring leaders on role definition, structured interviews, sourcing strategy, market research, candidate assessment, pipeline management, and offer negotiations. Build diverse talent pipelines, use recruiting data to guide decisions, maintain accurate Greenhouse documentation, deliver an inclusive candidate experience, and improve recruiting practices through responsible AI use and shared resources.

Manage full-cycle recruiting for go-to-market roles across sales, marketing, customer success, professional services, and related teams. Partner with hiring leaders, build diverse talent pipelines, conduct structured assessments, use market and funnel data to guide hiring, manage candidate experiences, negotiate offers, and maintain recruiting documentation. The role also involves improving recruiting practices, responsibly using AI, and advising stakeholders in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.

Owns and supports critical enterprise applications across SaaS, cloud, and on-premise environments. Responsibilities include system implementation, configuration, maintenance, advanced root-cause analysis, architecture evaluation, vendor coordination, upgrades, performance improvements, automation, scalability initiatives, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also mentors junior colleagues and uses AI to develop solutions and recommend improvements.

Own and grow strategic UK public sector accounts by acquiring enterprise customers, expanding existing relationships, managing the full sales cycle, developing account plans, presenting value-based solutions, coordinating technical and customer success resources, and achieving sales quotas. The role requires consultative solution selling, executive communication, knowledge of Git and software development tools, and travel when needed.

Lead pre-sales design of modern enterprise data platforms, including lakehouse, warehouse, federated, and data-product architectures. Advise customers on strategy, modernization, integration, governance, security, semantic layers, AI-ready data, observability, and cost management. Lead discovery workshops, demonstrations, proofs of value, proposals, RFP responses, TCO and ROI cases, partner engagement, and solution handoffs. Develop reusable architectures and offerings while mentoring colleagues and maintaining expertise across major data platform ecosystems.

Drives full-cycle sales of Data and AI solutions, including data readiness assessments, modern data platforms, governance, analytics, applied AI, and managed services. Builds pipeline, leads customer discovery, develops proposals and business cases, negotiates deals, and achieves revenue targets. Partners with account teams, Microsoft, and other vendors to deliver transformation opportunities. Advises senior technology stakeholders on data readiness, regulatory considerations, AI adoption, and multi-year commercial roadmaps.

Leads CDW’s UK Data & AI Solution Sales practice, defining strategy, propositions, go-to-market plans, and profitable growth. Builds data-readiness and AI-adoption offerings, manages senior vendor and customer relationships, drives revenue and partner programs, and ensures responsible, compliant delivery. Develops teams, certifications, forecasting, staffing, operational standards, and cross-functional collaboration across sales, security, cloud, delivery, marketing, legal, and compliance.

Leads customer-facing AI solution architecture, pre-sales engagements, demonstrations, and offering development. Designs end-to-end AI systems spanning data pipelines, machine learning models, MLOps, cloud, private cloud, and deployment platforms. Acts as a technical liaison among customers, sales teams, partners, and architects; develops AI strategies, governance, and platforms; supports commercial proposals and documentation; and provides thought leadership, sales enablement, and team mentoring. Requires strong commercial acumen, client-facing experience, and expertise in AI/ML technologies.

Executive technology leader responsible for shaping technology strategy and transformation while overseeing Technology, Finance, and People functions. The role advises the Chief Executive and Board, leads organisational capability and resource planning, and identifies practical uses of platforms, data, AI, automation, and strategic partnerships to improve services for educators and delivery partners.

Lead customer deployments of platform services from pre-kickoff through closure. Manage project plans, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, documentation, and technical teams. Coordinate with customers, sales, product, support, engineers, and consultants to ensure high-quality delivery. Apply Agile and waterfall methodologies, conduct post-implementation reviews, and use AI technologies to improve workflows and decision-making. Strong SIEM knowledge, particularly in security-focused IT projects, is required.

Leads AI product and software development lifecycle programs across multiple teams. Responsibilities include portfolio planning, governance, roadmap prioritization, risk and dependency management, performance reporting, investment tracking, stakeholder alignment, and coaching Technical Programme Managers to improve delivery excellence.

Lead Corporate Affairs data and measurement strategy by integrating qualitative and quantitative data across communications channels. Build dashboards, reporting systems, scoring frameworks, and insight narratives that guide senior decisions on campaigns, reputation, audience engagement, and communications investment. Partner with IT on databases and AI-enabled tools, measure sentiment and share of voice, support crisis communications, and assess employee readiness during transformation.

Build and lead the UK QA function, including strategy, processes, tooling, standards, and team growth. Develop testing approaches for AI-led products, agentic workflows, and non-deterministic LLM features. Write Playwright and TypeScript automation while performing manual testing, regression testing, and UAT. Partner with Engineering and Product to embed quality throughout development and establish effective release and defect-management processes.

Generates new business opportunities across the Benelux by researching target organizations, conducting outbound outreach, running discovery conversations, qualifying and progressing sales opportunities, managing Salesforce pipeline data, and supporting territory planning with the Benelux Account Executive. The role requires Dutch and English fluency, strong prospecting ability, commercial curiosity, resilience, organization, and willingness to learn modern sales technology. Experienced candidates may eventually own more of the sales cycle and close opportunities.

Lead Ofcom’s technical strategy for AI and machine learning in online safety. Assess AI systems for safety, fairness, robustness, transparency, and accountability; shape AI governance and assurance approaches; lead research and complex technical programmes; advise senior leaders; engage external stakeholders; and build organisational capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and multidisciplinary leadership.

Sells HPE Private Cloud AI solutions to enterprise customers and partners, leading AI-focused customer conversations, developing consultative proposals, building sales pipelines, hunting new logos, and closing complex technology, software, hardware, and services opportunities. The role engages technical, executive, and IT decision-makers, collaborates with account teams and ecosystem partners, conducts market and competitor research, and develops account strategies to grow revenue and market share.

Process inbound, outbound, internal, and external asset transfers within service-level requirements. Review instructions, investigate exceptions and rejected items, coordinate with stakeholders, maintain accurate records, and comply with risk, control, and regulatory standards. Support reporting, audits, procedural reviews, continuous improvement, and operational projects while identifying process inefficiencies and control gaps.

Leads strategic capture management for major Water-sector pursuits exceeding £25 million. Owns pursuit strategy, client positioning, governance, budgets, team formation, partner selection, proposal planning, and submission through lessons learned. Builds client relationships, analyzes competition, develops pipelines, coaches multidisciplinary teams, drives marketing and bid collaboration, ensures governance and commercial compliance, and improves capture and win rates. Requires strong leadership, consultancy experience, complex pursuit expertise, and Water-industry knowledge.

Complete a three-year accredited graduate programme developing systems engineering skills through structured training, engineering assignments, and potential rotations or secondments. Design and develop engineering solutions for Thales products, build professional competencies and networks, and work with experienced engineers across the engineering lifecycle. The role requires a relevant STEM degree, permanent UK work rights, UK security clearance, and eligibility for a UK Eyes Only programme.

Design and deliver enterprise-grade machine learning systems and AI-powered applications for banking. Build scalable, secure, distributed applications and automated cloud, desktop, and ML pipelines. Apply MLOps practices for versioning, reproducibility, and observability while collaborating with cloud and site reliability engineering teams. Develop reusable libraries and business-critical, data-intensive solutions, aligning machine learning problems with business objectives. The role may include mentoring or people leadership.

Lead AI controls enablement by translating AI risks into practical controls, partnering with Controls, Business, and Technology to design scalable solutions, perform risk reviews, implement controls, and advise senior stakeholders to ensure compliant AI adoption.

Leads country-level commercial performance, strategy execution, delivery quality, regulatory compliance, workforce planning, and cross-functional alignment. The role owns local entity performance within a shared P&L model, drives AI adoption, manages client and partner relationships, represents the company externally, and ensures global priorities are effectively adapted and delivered in the local market.

MBA Summer Associates join consulting teams for 8–12 weeks, contributing to real client projects and developing hands-on strategy consulting experience. Responsibilities include strategic analysis, creative problem-solving, teamwork, and applying AI-based solutions and data competencies to complex business challenges. Strong performers may receive full-time offers.

Leads technology policy consulting engagements and business development across Asia-Pacific. Advises technology-sector clients on public policy, regulation, politics, geopolitics, and commercial strategy, with emphasis on areas such as AI, online safety, data governance, data centres, digital competition, and telecommunications. Responsibilities include researching complex policy issues, developing strategic recommendations, managing projects and teams, engaging senior clients and stakeholders, and identifying commercially viable opportunities.

Manage a complex global enterprise influencer marketing account spanning multiple brands, regions, stakeholders, and concurrent campaigns. Coordinate creative, paid media, creator partnerships, and product teams; lead onboarding, briefs, scopes, budgets, timelines, platform demonstrations, and delivery. Analyze campaign performance, present executive reporting, develop recommendations, protect revenue, maintain operational accuracy, and relay client insights to product teams. Requires extensive creator marketing experience, TikTok fluency, AI-enabled workflows, strong organization, and enterprise account servicing skills.