AI Implementation Lead - Core Technology in Cambridge

AI Implementation Lead – Core Technology

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Job Details

Job Title: Generative AI and Automation Implementation Lead
Salary: £50,900 – £68,000
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Core Technology team as an Implementation Lead of Generative AI and Automation. You will be instrumental in ensuring the delivery of our key strategic aim of becoming more effective using Generative AI and Automation. You will contribute to an exciting program of change as we work to get the most out of the opportunities that Generative AI presents to us.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

• Build and lead a team of 2 enabling and delivering AI and Automation solutions
• Identify where and how value can be derived using AI and Automation
• Be responsible for the application of AI governance and ethics that aligns to our company policies across Core Technology
• Manage and engage with our internal stakeholders and external suppliers
• Manage a rapidly changing technical foundation, keeping us up to date and allowing us to use the latest innovative technologies

Candidate Profile

As the Implementation Lead for Generative AI and Automation you will have a passion for great technical innovation and be deeply invested in using technology to allow people to thrive. You will have excellent problem‑solving skills and an inquisitive nature. This role will require you to be extremely flexible and often work in ambiguity. The ability to effectively manage your priorities and those of your team members is essential.

Key Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Experience in Generative AI and up to speed on industry trends
• Ability to manage stakeholders at any level of the business
• Understanding of how to measure business value
• Capability to work well in high‑pressure situations

Mindset is extremely important, so if you think that your skills or experience don’t exactly match the requirements, but you have transferable skills that fit this role, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Rewards and Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4‑times annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, offering a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid‑working colleagues to spend 40‑60% of their time at a dedicated office or location, and we will consider other arrangements if you need more flexibility or adjustments due to a disability.

Application

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 16 January 2026. Interviews will be scheduled while the campaign is live and shortly after the closing date.

Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route.

Why Join Us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You’ll belong to a collaborative team that explores new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers worldwide—benefiting individuals, society and the planet. Sharing our mission will inspire growth, development and progress in an environment that embraces difference, change and aspiration.

We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural or social background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach, and actively seek to employ people from a wide range of communities.

Documents

• Job Description – AI Implementation Lead.pdf (214.22 KB)