AI maturity
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Chief AI Officer
Head of Applied AI
Niural AI · HR Technology / Workforce Management · 📍 New York, NY
Niural AI is hiring a senior AI leader to own applied AI product and engineering direction at an AI-native HR/payroll startup that has AI as its core value proposition.
Reports to
CEO
Company stage
startup
Source
linkedin
Key responsibilities
- Define and execute applied AI strategy across Niural's product and platform
- Build and lead an applied AI team from the ground up
- Translate AI research and tooling into production-grade HR/payroll features
- Partner with product and engineering to embed AI throughout the product lifecycle
- Establish AI infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and model deployment standards
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience building and shipping AI/ML systems in production
- Prior leadership experience managing or building applied AI or ML teams
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation details posted
- ⚠ Extremely sparse job description — near zero detail on scope, team, or requirements
- ⚠ No company history or prior postings to benchmark against
- ⚠ Unclear reporting structure and team context
- ✓ AI is central to the company's identity and product — not a bolt-on initiative
- ✓ Early-stage hire likely comes with meaningful equity upside
- ✓ New York presence suggests funded, operationally serious company