Head of Applied AI, Bezos.AI

• AI-native to the core - you already use AI every day to work faster and think bigger, and you’re genuinely excited to build with it (agents, automations, tools). You don’t need to be a professional software engineer, but you get your hands dirty
• You’ve owned and transformed something - a function, a team, a business, or your own company - and you can prove the impact
• Product mindset - you build for the user and the outcome, not the output. You ship an MVP, get feedback, and iterate, and you prioritise ruthlessly by value
• Exceptional analytical and commercial judgment - you reason from first principles, are fluent with numbers and unit economics, and know where the real value is
• High agency and bias to action - you take an ambiguous mandate and ship the 80% this week rather than plan it for a quarter
• Leadership - ready to own a function at SLT level and build a team in time; you carry the CEO’s and the board’s confidence
• Outstanding communication - you make complex things simple and influence across a business
• Startup temperament - high-energy, low-ego, thrives in ambiguity and a fast pace

Desirable

• You will help us reinvent how Bezos runs - using AI to build a company where a small team operates like a much larger one
• We’ve already proven the pattern: agentic tooling built on Claude is running real finance and operations work today
• Now we want an exceptional AI-native leader to take that thinking into the heart of the business and own the transformation
• This isn’t a role for a back-seat strategist
• You’ll go deep into how a core function actually works - the numbers, the operations, the decisions - and rebuild it around AI: automating the routine, sharpening the judgment calls, and freeing the team to do what only humans should
• You’ll sit on the Senior Leadership Team, report directly to the CEO, and have the mandate to change how things are done
• Core Pillars of Success:
• Find the leverage: Go deep into how a core function works and find where AI genuinely transforms it - what to automate, what to sharpen, what to rethink entirely
• Build it, don’t just plan it: Ship the agents, automations, and tools that change how the work actually gets done. Hands-on, fast, iterative
• Think like a product owner: Treat the function - and the product - like a product. Obsess over the user and the outcome, ship an MVP, measure it, and iterate
• Prove the ROI: Decide where AI creates real value vs where it’s a distraction, and prove it in time saved, cost removed, or revenue won
• Lead and level up: Own your mandate at SLT level, raise the whole company’s AI fluency, and build a team beneath you as it scales
• In Your First 90 Days, You Will
• Learn the business end-to-end and map where the biggest AI leverage sits across finance, operations, and product
• Agree your first mandate with the CEO and ship one real improvement that changes how the work gets done
• Treat that first win like a product: define the outcome, ship an MVP, and measure the impact
• Establish how we build with AI here - a lightweight, practical standard the rest of the team can follow