About the role

  • AI Team Leader defining and executing AI strategy across products for VSN, a leader in media and broadcast software. Responsible for building and leading a high-impact engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own VSN’s AI roadmap in alignment with company and product strategy
  • Translate business needs into concrete AI initiatives, POCs, and product features
  • Build, lead and mentor a high-performing AI engineering team (internal + external/partners)
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Sales and Customer Success to prioritize and deliver AI capabilities that drive tangible business value
  • Design and implement end-to-end AI solutions: from data ingestion and model integration to frontend UX
  • Build and maintain production-grade services and APIs that integrate AI/ML and LLMs into VSN products
  • Work as a strong full-stack engineer (backend + frontend) capable of owning features from concept to deployment
  • Use tools like Cursor, Claude, and other AI coding assistants as core instruments to increase development speed and quality at scale
  • Define the technical architecture for AI services (cloud, scalability, security, observability)
  • Select, evaluate and integrate third-party AI platforms, models, and vendors
  • Establish coding standards, best practices and quality gates for the AI team
  • Ensure robustness, performance, and reliability of AI features in production
  • Promote a high-pace, agile environment with short feedback cycles and continuous delivery
  • Drive experimentation (A/B tests, fast POCs) and systematically measure impact vs. cost
  • Evangelise AI internally, supporting training and awareness across the organization

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2+ years in AI/ML, LLMs or applied data products
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or a similar related discipline is essential
  • Strong full-stack capabilities:
  • Backend: Node.js, Python, or similar; REST/GraphQL APIs; microservices
  • Frontend: React (or similar modern framework), TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Databases: SQL and NoSQL; data modeling and performance tuning
  • Proven experience integrating LLMs / AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and building applications around them (RAG, agents, workflows, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot or similar) as a standard part of the development workflow
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, code review, CI/CD, version control, security best practices
  • Legally authorized to work in Spain
  • Previous experience leading a small engineering team or acting as a tech lead
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels: roadmap definition and hands-on coding
  • High agility and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Excellent communication skills in English and Spanish, and the ability to interact directly with C-level stakeholders
  • Strong ownership mindset, bias for action, and a focus on measurable business outcomes
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities
  • Proven ability to work in agile teams and deliver in fast-paced environments
  • Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Hands-on attitude with a proven entrepreneurial spirit and pace-setter traits
  • Experience in media, broadcast, OTT, or adjacent industries
  • Prior work on recommendation systems, search, content enrichment, or video workflows
  • MLOps experience (model lifecycle, monitoring, retraining pipelines)
  • Start-up or scale-up experience

Job title

AI Team Leader

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridSpain

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