Head of AI Development

We're building Hyphen's AI unit from scratch. This is the first hire.

If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information.

You'll set the technical foundations — the architecture, the standards, the way we build — across a portfolio of global education companies. Everything that comes after depends on getting this right.

Salary: £90k–£120k base

WHAT HYPHEN IS

Hyphen is a portfolio of global education companies spanning international education and AI skills — INTO, INTO Qualifications, iO-Sphere, Nurture Higher Education, The AI Board, and more in the pipeline. We have big ambitions. We're building new businesses, launching new products, and transforming how our companies operate — and we're doing it fast.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead the technical delivery of Hyphen's new AI unit — the team responsible for building new products and businesses across the portfolio

• Set the architecture and standards that make it possible to build fast without cutting corners on security, scalability, or reliability

• Be the human gate on anything touching auth, payments, or personal data — you decide what ships

• Work directly with group leadership and AI Builders to design and build new products from scratch

• Make sure everything we build can scale — not just today but as the portfolio grows

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR xwzovoh

• Senior full-stack engineer who builds with LLMs — not just prompts them

• Security-aware; you know what production-readiness means and you don't cut corners

• Comfortable working autonomously and willing to push back when the technical direction is wrong

• You've shipped things that real people use

• You haven't come from a large org where security, infra, and architecture were someone else's problem — you've owned all of it.