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# Head of AI Platforms & Deployment at Moneybox

- **Company:** Moneybox
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/moneyboxapp/408e30e1-80bb-426e-b9d8-644e353acf26

## Job description

## About Moneybox

At Moneybox, our mission is to give everyone the means to get more out of life. We're guided by our belief that wealth isn't about the money, it's about the means to more - more freedom, opportunities, possibilities, and peace of mind. Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform, helping over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they’re saving and investing, buying their first home, or planning for retirement.

Job Brief

## What You'll Do

Own the AI platform strategy. Risk management, horizon scanning, supplier selection and vendor management, business case ownership, and benefits realisation through a coherent, business-driven delivery roadmap that is trusted by stakeholders across Moneybox.

Build and lead the AI Deployment team. Hire, line-manage and set the engagement priorities and delivery standards for a team of forward-deployed AI engineers, working alongside embedded specialists while we hire. Grow into managing both the platform and deployment sub-teams as the function expands.

Own perimeter safety in an AI-native world. Set and own our defensive AI strategy, with execution carried out in collaboration with Tech Ops. Our Principal Cloud Architect, who owns overall cloud strategy, is a key partner.

Own AI platforms and costs. Harnesses, tooling, cost management, forecasting and optimisation (including usage-based pricing shifts), and the staff access model. This includes:

- AI safety for internal use: sandboxing, policy, integrations, MCP governance, usage guardrails and monitoring expectations.
- The three platform pillars: control, monitoring and sandboxing (LLM and MCP gateway, anonymisation, local hardening, sandboxed cloud agent hosting); agentic workflow orchestration (a "software factory" in the cloud with hybrid self-serve and engineering-managed workflows); and knowledge capture and organisation.
- AI workflow tooling and the tiered graduation ladder from personal tool, to shared tool, to business system.
- Evolving existing deployments: tactical enhancement of what we run today so it aligns with the strategic direction.

Own model hosting and scaling. Hosting and scaling for AI and model workloads, including the customer-facing models behind our Aurora financial guidance service, with execution in collaboration with Tech Ops. Model safety and performance for customer-facing AI is shared with our Decisioning and Data Science teams: they own what happens inside the model, you own everything surrounding it.

Enable the do-ers. Give departments a working answer for using AI today - clear guardrails on what is allowed now and fast risk assessment rather than blanket restriction - and make sure demand arrives through the front door.

This role is explicitly not ML model development or data science, general cloud infrastructure ownership, or general engineering delivery - although our squads and engineering leads are customers of the platforms you build.

## Who You Are

- A proven engineering leader who has gone deep on AI. You have managed engineers and managers, run programmes, owned budgets and supplier relationships, and in the last two to three years you have owned an AI platform or enablement capability in a real organisation. Not a spectator or strategist-only.
- A player-manager. You are comfortable getting hands-on in the early months and equally comfortable stepping back as the team you have hired takes it on.
- Strategic and accountable. You build and deliver a 12-18 month strategy aligned to company objectives, make well-informed and timely decisions, and take full ownership of your function's performance and commitments.
- Unusually cross-functional. Every department is your stakeholder and customer. You will be recognised as the AI platforms expert at Moneybox, influencing exec and departmental leaders and resolving boundaries with Tech Ops and Decisioning through shared goals rather than turf.
- A team builder. You will build this team from scratch rather than inherit one, establishing a performance culture, developing your people, and running a team that itself models AI-enabled productivity.
- Commercially literate. You can express platform investment in ROI and EBITDA terms to a non-technical exec, and defend a risk position - on a connector approval, a token-versus-agent permission gap, a vendor - with clear reasoning.

## Experience & Skill

Essential

- Proven engineering leadership: has managed engineers and managers, run programmes, owned budgets and supplier relationships.
- Has owned an AI platform or enablement capability in a real organisation in the last 2-3 years: deployed AI tooling company-wide, set governance, managed cost at scale.
- Has built or significantly scaled a team.
- Current, hands-on fluency with the modern AI stack: frontier model platforms, agentic tooling and harnesses, MCP and integration patterns, evals, prompt and context engineering.
- AI security and governance: sandboxing, gateways (LLM, MCP, AI), DLP, guardrail enforcement and data-boundary reasoning; able to form and defend risk positions.
- Cost engineering: usage-based pricing models, forecasting and optimisation levers.
- Enough software and cloud architecture depth to hold your own with Architects, Tech Ops and Decisioning, and to get hands-on with the platform in the early months. Our core stack is .NET on Azure and Python is the standard for AI, so we need polyglot pragmatism over allegiance to any single stack.
- Vendor and supplier evaluation and management in a fast-moving market.
- Evidence of business-case thinking: can express platform investment in ROI and EBITDA terms to a non-technical exec.

Desirable

- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry, or a comparable risk-context environment.
- Hands-on experience selecting or implementing LLM/MCP gateways, sandboxed agent hosting or agentic workflow orchestration platforms.
- Experience serving customer-facing AI models in production and partnering with data science teams on model safety and performance.

## About Moneybox

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Moneybox is an award-winning UK wealth management platform that combines saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services into one simple app.
- **Entity Type**: Private (profitable since 2023, no public funding round disclosed in recent reports)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK
- **Founded**: 2015 (company founded in May 2015; app launched in 2016)
- **Founders**: Charlie Mortimer and Ben Stanway

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Fintech – Wealth management, digital savings and investments, mortgage advice, pension consolidation.
- **Target Customers**: B2C – UK-based individuals ranging from first-time home buyers to retirement savers; includes savers, investors, and those consolidating pensions.
- **Mission / Purpose**: “To empower customers to build wealth so they can create the life they want.”

## Products & Services
- **[Moneybox App](https://www.moneyboxapp.com/)**: All-in-one mobile platform offering Cash ISA, Stocks & Shares ISA, Lifetime ISA (LISA), Junior ISA, general investment accounts, pension consolidation, and mortgage advice. Includes features like round‑ups, regular investing, and in‑app personalisation.
- **[Simple Saver Reward](https://support.moneyboxapp.com/about-us)**: High‑interest savings account exclusive to existing customers, launched in 2024.
- **Pension Finder**: Free tool that helps customers locate lost pension pots – over £600m reunited as of 2024.
- **Mortgage Advice**: Provided through Moneybox Mortgages Limited, an appointed representative of Mortgage Advice Bureau Limited.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue £93.8m (FY2024, +68% YoY); Assets Under Administration (AUA) £11.7bn (+117% YoY); Customer base 1.3m (+41% YoY).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed in provided materials; regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an enhanced firm under the Senior Managers & Certification Regime.
- **Growth Signals**: Profitable since 2023, with Profit Before Tax of £19.7m in 2024 (+23% YoY). Headcount grew from 333 to 412 in 2024 (+24%). Completed migration to next‑generation cloud infrastructure in September 2024. Named a Which? Best Buy in Savings (2024) and maintains an ‘Excellent’ Trustpilot score of 4.4 and app store rating of 4.8.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated proprietary tech platform** (in‑house “Sycamore” platform migrated from third‑party in 2020) enabling rapid product expansion and cost efficiencies.
- **Market‑leading Lifetime ISA** – over 120,000 first homes purchased through Moneybox LISA.
- **High customer retention** (exceeds 94%) and deep customer relationships (AUA per customer up 53% to £9,002 in 2024).
- **First investment platform** in the UK to offer a pension via a mobile app (2019).
- **Carbon‑neutral business** for 5 consecutive years and first fintech signatory of the UN Climate Neutral Now Initiative; 40% of fund range is ESG‑focused.

## Strategic Focus
- **Personalisation**: Rolled out initial stages of in‑app personalisation and a high‑interest savings product (Simple Saver Reward) to deepen engagement.
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to broaden the product suite to cover the full wealth‑building lifecycle, with strong investment in development, operations, and central teams.
- **Regulatory leadership**: Collaborating with HM Treasury, FCA, and the wider industry to improve financial guidance and access.
- **Efficiency & scale**: Leveraging the proprietary platform to drive cost efficiencies while maintaining strong revenue growth and profitability.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & growth**: Consistently one of the fastest‑growing UK tech companies, with a mission‑driven focus on financial inclusion and customer outcomes.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid model with a central London office (Suite 1.07, 1‑2 Hatfields). The 2024 annual report highlights continued hiring across development, operations, and central services.
- **Tech & innovation**: Engineers work on a modern cloud‑native infrastructure (migrated 2024) and a proprietary wealth platform. Use of AI in the hiring process to reduce bias, though final decisions remain human.
- **Impact**: Directly helping customers save, buy homes, and plan retirement – tangible societal impact. Carbon‑neutral and ESG‑conscious operations.
- **Benefits**: Not fully detailed in published materials, but “award‑winning customer support” and high Trustpilot/app store ratings reflect a customer‑centric culture that likely translates to employee experience.

## Sources
1. [moneyboxapp.com](https://www.moneyboxapp.com/)
2. [support.moneyboxapp.com – About Us](https://support.moneyboxapp.com/about-us)
3. [jobs.lever.co/moneyboxapp – Careers](https://jobs.lever.co/moneyboxapp)
4. [support.moneyboxapp.com – Annual Report 2024 (PDF)](https://support.moneyboxapp.com/docs/Moneybox-Annual-Report-2024.pdf)

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