Chief AI Officer
Chief AI Officer
Search Solution Group · Technology / Staffing & Recruiting Tech · 100-500 employees · 📍 Charlotte, NC
A fast-growing tech company needs a founding AI leader to build the entire AI function from scratch — strategy, infrastructure, product integration, and team — with full executive ownership.
AI Maturity
early
Why Role Exists
New position
Company Stage
scale-up
Source
linkedin
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and own the company-wide AI strategy and roadmap across product, ops, CX, and analytics
- Lead design and deployment of AI-powered product features including LLMs, RAG, generative AI, copilots, and recommendation engines
- Build scalable AI infrastructure: model deployment, vector databases, orchestration platforms, and API integrations
- Identify and automate high-impact internal workflows to drive operational efficiency
- Hire, mentor, and lead AI engineers, data scientists, and automation specialists
- Establish AI governance, security, and ethical standards company-wide
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead an AI function end-to-end
- Deep technical fluency in LLMs, machine learning, RAG, vector databases, and AI orchestration
- Experience designing and deploying production-grade AI systems
- Strong business acumen to align AI initiatives with revenue and growth goals
- Proven team-building and leadership experience
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Company identity is ambiguous — posting is by Search Solution Group, which may be a recruiter/staffing firm, not the actual employer
- ⚠ No information on reporting structure or executive team
- ⚠ Remote/hybrid/onsite work arrangement not specified
- ⚠ No equity or benefits information provided
- ⚠ Broad, generic scope with no industry-specific context
- ✓ Explicit mandate to build AI from the ground up — high impact, high ownership role
- ✓ Broad technical and strategic scope signals genuine C-level authority
- ✓ Comprehensive AI technology stack listed, suggesting informed stakeholders
- ✓ Company states it is 'investing heavily' in AI — budget intent implied
- ✓ Role spans product, ops, CX, and data — enterprise-wide visibility