Head of GenAI Platform

The role

You will lead the strategy and technical direction for the GenAI platform, including model orchestration, evaluation, agentic workflows, and foundation model training. You will partner with Infrastructure and Research teams to enable the rapid shipping of AI products at scale.

What you will do

• Defining the long-term vision and technical strategy for the GenAI Platform
• Partnering with the Infrastructure team on inference infrastructure, model serving and reliability
• Partnering with Research to rapidly bring new models into production
• Leading and growing a multidisciplinary team of ML Engineers, Software Engineers and Researchers
• Creating an environment where technical ideas move from research to production quickly
• Building evaluation frameworks for model quality, cost and latency
• Working with Product, Engineering and Executive leadership to accelerate product innovation

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading Machine Learning or AI organisations within product-focused companies
• Started career as a hands-on ML engineer or researcher
• Experience building and operating AI platforms including model orchestration, evaluation pipelines or agent frameworks
• Strong technical expertise across Generative AI, Computer Vision or Foundation Models
• Track record of taking emerging technologies from research into production systems
• Experience growing high-performing engineering and research teams through hiring, coaching and organisational design
• Technical depth to contribute to architecture conversations
• Strong product instincts
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Research experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Hybrid working from Paris headquarters
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support
• MacBook Pro and full home office setup
• 30 days annual leave
• Private healthcare
• Regular company off-sites and team retreats

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship and relocation support up to €10,000 available

About the company

Photoroom is an AI photo and video solution for e-commerce. It is an international team of 130+ with offices in Paris and New York.