Head of AI & Data Science

Moneyhub
Bristol, United Kingdom
Last month
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Director
Posted
10 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Head of AI & Data Science


Reporting to:
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location:Hybrid (Remote but with frequent travel to Moneyhub offices in London & Bristol and client sites within UK)

Team:5 (Data Scientists & ML Engineers), growing within a wider Engineering org of 50+

The Mission

Moneyhub is an industry leader in data enrichment and categorisation. Our foundation is built on high-integrity financial data and robust machine learning. We serve the largest financial institutions who trust us to process millions of their consumers’ transactions every day.

We’re embracing the transition to agentic engineering, arming our teams with the best AI coding tools, and evolving our SDLC to move at pace in an AI world. We’re producing more quality code than ever before, to help solve client problems faster, and deliver better outcomes for their consumers.

Your mission is to partner directly with the CTO and CPO to accelerate our evolution into the world’s premier Intelligent Financial Decisioning and Data Platform. As a key leader within a 50-person engineering organization, you will influence the technical direction of the entire business. You will lead the shift from "data insights" to Agentic AI, architecting systems that don't just show data, but reason, plan, and act upon it. You will ensure that AI is not a "bolt-on" feature, but a fundamental capability that enhances our engineering standards, our product value, and our commercial moat

What do we offer?

We have offices in London and Bristol together with access to co-working space. We offer the opportunity to work remotely (role, business and client dependent) with support for your home office set-up if required. We have regular all company away days and other company, client and team meetings, your attendance at which will be mandatory.

Whilst this will be a remote first role we ask that applicants are based within commutable distance to either London or Bristol for regular in person meetings with the team.


Benefits include:

  • 5% company contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us. 3% contribution from your self.
  • 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years;
  • Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance;
  • Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit;
  • 3 Months Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent;
  • Permanent health insurance and life cover - much greater than the industry standard (death in service);
  • Employee assistance programme;
  • Professional development support, with dedicated allowance of time and money;
  • Life event leave;
  • Cycle to work scheme;
  • EV Car Scheme
  • £750 towards professional memberships
  • Remote working benefits, including work from almost anywhere, access to co-working spaces and support for your home office set-up
  • High spec laptop
  • Holiday purchase

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