At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-impact generative AI products.
- Company: Join EQT Group, a purpose-driven global investment organisation with a focus on active ownership.
- Benefits: Inclusive culture, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of AI innovation in private equity and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership skills and experience in AI and private equity.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 £ per year.
This job is with EQT Group, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. EQT is looking for an Applied AI Lead — a delivery-focused engineering leader who brings together technical depth, product instinct, and the credibility to partner with investment professionals, operators, and engineers to turn generative AI from prototype into production. This role sits at the heart of EQT's ambition to become the most AI-literate firm in private markets.
About the Team
You will lead EQT's Applied AI function, a multidisciplinary team of applied AI engineers, ML engineers, and full-stack builders shipping high-impact generative AI products across Client, Investment Teams, and Fund/Group. The team consumes Tech Foundations' shared AI platform while owning lightweight tooling and operational practices to move with speed.
About the Role
You will lead a team of engineers deployed on high-impact projects to quickly drive results within both engineering and business teams. You will lead with craft, actively contributing to assignments alongside your leadership duties and you will act as a catalyst, helping engineering teams accelerate AI delivery and maximizing AI impact across business teams. You set the standard for quality and delivery across the team. Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary Applied AI team with clear expectations for delivery quality and technical craft. Own the Applied AI roadmap in close alignment with business stakeholders and value stream teams; stay attuned to emerging AI capabilities and evaluate where new models, agents, or tooling unlock fresh value. Partner with Tech Foundations, Product, Data, and Security teams to ensure Applied AI products integrate cleanly and responsibly. Serve as the senior AI partner to EQT's business lines — working directly with investment professionals and leaders to translate opportunities into concrete deliverables. Drive adoption of shipped products through enablement, demonstrations, training, and active feedback loops with end users. Track the AI frontier and apply fresh thinking to raise the bar on what EQT can build. Measure and communicate business impact with rigour — instrumenting both engineering productivity gains and user adoption — and hire engineers who understand that judgment about AI output, decomposition skills, and willingness to change workflows matter more than framework credentials.
About You
You are a thoughtful, delivery-oriented leader who combines technical depth with business fluency to navigate private markets. You bring collaborative leadership, sound judgment, and relentless curiosity about where AI creates genuine value in PE.
What you'll bring (must-have):
- Leadership a measurable before/after (latency, throughput, manual-work elimination); and how you measured it.
- Willingness to Abandon Habits for Better Tooling: You've changed your mind on how you write AI systems because a new approach or model capability made the old one obsolete. You ship what works now, not what worked last year, and you bring that standard to how you lead.
- Working Knowledge of Private Equity.
We understand and believe that being a great place to work drives the best performance. At EQT, inclusion is a business imperative and it's embedded into our talent strategy, decision-making, and culture to ensure that every individual and team operates at their full potential. By doing so, we unlock better collaboration, stronger innovation, and superior investment outcomes.
About EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of over three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 270 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management), within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets. With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does. EQT has offices in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has more than 1,900 employees.
More info: www.eqtgroup.com
Applied AI Lead employer: EQT Group
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