AI Knowledge Lead

About Euromonitor: Euromonitor International leads the world in data analytics and research into markets, industries, economies and consumers. We provide truly global insight and data on thousands of products and services; we are the first destination for organisations seeking growth. With our guidance, our clients can make bold, strategic decisions with confidence.

About the role: Reporting to the Director of Gen AI, the AI Knowledge Architect will be Euromonitor's foremost authority on AI knowledge systems — holding formal sign-off power over the tools, skills, and integrations that the entire organisation builds on. This is an exciting, newly created role at the start of a significant journey. You will define best practice from the ground up, establishing the frameworks and canonical skill catalogue that will shape how Euromonitor uses AI for years to come. This role is for a senior technical builder who governs as a consequence of deep expertise, and for a governance and standards leader who can get hands‑on when it counts.

What you'll be doing:

• Knowledge architecture and AI systems (~25%)
  • Develop and maintain deep expertise in the agentic entity set underpinning Euromonitor's AI capabilities: tool calls, connectors, APIs, MCP, native and custom integrations, and computer and browser use.
  • Build in-depth command of system instructions and skills architecture — including how skills are invoked directly and indirectly, and how they can be chained into reliable end‑to‑end workflows.
  • Architect retrieval frameworks that ground AI outputs in verified, properly attributed Euromonitor data, designed to be platform‑ and framework‑agnostic.
• Governance, standards, and the AI skill catalogue (~35%)
  • Own and maintain Euromonitor's canonical AI skill catalogue — the quality‑assured library of tools and integrations available across the organisation.
  • Apply a rigorous strategic value test: every skill must encode a proprietary Euromonitor way of working or draw from Euromonitor‑specific data sources; generic capabilities that agents can replicate on the fly do not qualify.
  • Set contribution standards, version control, and deprecation policies — and embed proportionate security standards into the review process in partnership with Information Security.
• Organisational AI enablement and culture‑building (~25%)
  • Drive the cultural change needed to embed AI capability across all functions, designing the enablement architecture that allows teams at different levels of technical maturity to adopt AI confidently.
  • Identify, sponsor, and develop AI champions across the business — the long‑term carriers of AI culture at Euromonitor.
  • Deliver proof‑of‑concept reference implementations that demonstrate best practice in design, documentation, and integration.
• Cross‑functional collaboration (~15%)
  • Serve as the expert voice on AI knowledge quality and system design in product planning, roadmap, and senior leadership forums.
  • Partner with Product, AI Engineering, and Research to ensure knowledge architecture decisions support Euromonitor's commercial and product ambitions.

What you'll bring:

• Deep practical understanding of how agentic AI platforms and large language models work — including system instruction design, skills architecture, tool calling, RAG, and connector protocols such as MCP.
• Hands‑on experience building or architecting AI skills and workflows, with a clear grasp of how skills can be chained for reliable end‑to‑end automation.
• Experience curating shared tool libraries or platform standards, with the judgement to distinguish genuinely proprietary capabilities from generic ones.
• Confident communication — able to write rigorous technical documentation, exercise formal catalogue authority with peers, and present strategic rationale to senior leadership.
• Familiarity with knowledge and metadata management principles, regardless of specific platforms encountered.

Who you are:

• You are energised by building something from scratch in a fast‑moving domain.
• You see governance as a product of deep expertise, not a constraint on innovation.
• You are equally comfortable setting an architectural standard and rolling up your sleeves to build a reference implementation.
• You track the AI landscape with genuine curiosity — not just how the tools work today, but where they are going.

What you'll get:

• The opportunity to step into a brand new role and build something exciting from scratch.
• Career growth opportunities as the role evolves significantly.
• Be part of a truly global company with regular communication across all of our 16 global offices.
• The ability to establish brand new frameworks and be an integral part of Euromonitor's history.

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