At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive AI-led operational change and redesign processes across various functions.
- Company: Join Tipalti's innovative AI Foundry with a focus on collaboration and inclusivity.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work options, and a supportive culture.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with global exposure and career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by scaling AI solutions in finance operations.
- Qualifications: Experience in AI solutions, strong communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Overview
As Principal, AI Transformation, you will drive AI-led operational change within Tipalti’s AI Foundry, embedding with G&A functions (Legal, People, FP&A) to redesign end-to-end processes.
You will identify gaps, map workflows, and ship AI-enabled fixes using modern tooling while ensuring governance, security, and compliance.
You’ll balance build-vs-buy decisions and communicate a clear tech strategy across divisions.
This role blends hands-on delivery with strategic leadership to scale AI across the finance organization.
- Pay / Benefits
- competitive benefits
- flexible workplace
- inclusive culture
- global exposure
- impactful work across finance operations
Responsibilities
- Understand customer pain points in Legal, People, and Finance and identify constrainsts and effective problems to solve
- Map end-to-end workflows, detect handoff failures, and design cross-boundary AI leverage
- Build, prototype, and deploy AI solutions using Claude, agent frameworks, MCP-based tooling, APIs, and data integrations
- Assess buildability, security, privacy, regulatory and maintenance considerations for internally developed vs purchased solutions
- Advise divisional teams on tech stacks, data ownership, integrations, and cross-tool siting of agents and automations
- Design for reliability with failure-mode planning, monitoring, access controls, auditing, and incident response
- Define success metrics, track adoption and performance, and iterate based on actual usage
- Operate with strong collaboration across frontline teams, CFO, CLRO, CPO, and engineers to translate business problems into technical specs
- Key requirements
- Shipped AI or automation solutions that users depend on
- Comfort with terminal, API docs, and scripting (Python, Type Script, or similar)
- Fluent with Claude or frontier models, including agentic coding and evaluation
- Ability to reason about non-determinism, context limits, cost, latency, and retrieval vs scripting
- End-to-end workflow thinking and cross-functional collaboration across multiple functions
- Proactive, self-directed, able to set priorities and work across levels of the organization
- Strong communication skills to translate business problems into technical specs
- Proactive and self-directed
- Translator and connector across functions
- Curious about unfamiliar territory
- Claude or equivalent frontier model expertise
- Agent frameworks and MCP-based tooling
- Automation platforms and APIs
Principal, AI Transformation in London employer: Tipalti
At Tipalti, we are committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work culture where engineers have real ownership over their projects and the opportunity to shape AI architecture from the ground up. Our hybrid remote model allows for flexibility while providing competitive benefits, including equity options, private medical cover, and generous paid time off, making it an ideal environment for personal and professional growth. Join us in building innovative AI-powered solutions that make a tangible impact for finance teams globally.
