Head of AI/ML
Remote
Head of AI Platform
Afida GmbH · Insurance Technology / IT Consulting (Insurance Sector) · 50-500 employees · 📍 München, Stuttgart, Essen, Frankfurt, Köln, Nürnberg, Dortmund
Afida GmbH is hiring a founding AI Platform leader to build a secure, multi-tenant AI backbone on AWS for the highly regulated German insurance sector, enabling production-grade LLM and AI service integration across products and processes.
AI Maturity
building
Reports To
CTO
Why Role Exists
New position
Company Stage
scale-up
Source
stepstone
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a new strategic AI platform domain within the insurance vertical from the ground up
- Architect and own a scalable, secure, multi-tenant AI backbone on AWS integrating LLMs and AI services into products and processes
- Design a client-context layer and develop an AI governance, metering, and compliance framework aligned to regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with and expand cross-functional teams including product, cloud, security, and governance stakeholders
- Define technology standards and guardrails for safe, production-grade AI usage across the organization
Requirements
- Deep experience architecting AI/ML platforms or LLM-based systems at production scale
- Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud infrastructure for AI workloads
- Understanding of AI governance, compliance, and regulatory frameworks (especially in financial/insurance sectors)
- Experience building or leading multi-tenant AI architectures
- Ability to work across technical and business stakeholders to drive AI adoption
Signals
- ⚠ No salary range disclosed despite salary being flagged as available — suggests internal benchmarking not finalized
- ⚠ Role spans 7 German cities with no clear primary base — may indicate organizational ambiguity
- ⚠ No company background or AI team context shared — harder to assess existing capability
- ✓ Clear greenfield mandate — candidate owns the full strategic build
- ✓ Specific technical scope (AWS, LLMs, multi-tenancy, governance) signals real investment intent
- ✓ Insurance sector focus provides a differentiated, high-value AI deployment context
- ✓ Explicit regulatory and compliance framing shows organizational seriousness about responsible AI