Senior Manager of Financial Services, Faculty
2+ days a week in office
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Be an early applicant
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help organisations across the public and private sectors use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
Role
Who you are
- You possess a proven ability to lead both projects and people within the Financial Services sector
- You have substantial experience leading the delivery of Machine Learning/Data Science products and/or services
- You bring valuable depth experience as an external consultant
- You demonstrate experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, up to C-level, with evidence of durable relationships and account expansion
- You have in-depth knowledge of a key area within Financial Services (preference for Insurance, Asset Management, Banking, or FinTech)
- You thrive on distilling clarity from ambiguity and can influence effectively without direct authority
- You uphold high personal standards for delivery excellence, grasping details while seamlessly switching between strategic and commercial perspectives
What the job involves
- As a Senior Manager in Financial Services, you will be at the forefront of delivering bespoke software and AI solutions that yield significant ROI for our clients
- You'll operate autonomously, engaging with C-level stakeholders, and backed by Faculty's leading technologists to transform complex industry challenges into growth opportunities
- This role is potentially for you if you’re an entrepreneurial thinker, passionate about leveraging AI to revolutionize Financial Services, and you enjoy hands-on problem scoping and impactful solution delivery
- Leading transformational applied AI work with a diverse client portfolio
- Owning and leading client engagements from initial scoping to successful delivery
- Acting as the crucial bridge between Faculty's technical expertise and senior client stakeholders
- Positioning Faculty as a trusted advisor and effective implementer, evolving transactional accounts into strategic partnerships
- Engaging with a broad network of sector stakeholders to build a coalition of support for Faculty’s initiatives
- Driving continuous improvement in delivery excellence by contributing innovative ideas, structure, and scalable processes
- Identifying opportunities for further growth within existing client relationships
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to determine how they can utilise AI, and then assist them in implementing the necessary skills, strategy, and software.
The team has developed a platform with a large cloud computing space for accessing vast amounts of data for use in designing and testing AI models. Frontier, its Design Intelligence platform, develops digital twins for its customers, which give them more insight into useful applications for AI. Applied AI is Faculty's consulting division, working with clients to build and deploy tailored AI solutions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries across the public and private sectors, including healthcare, retail, government and energy.
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Autonomy
"People here get a lot of trust to figure things out. They also get the chance to earn a lot of responsibility at a relatively early stage in their..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$39.8m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52.3m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees)
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime
Company values
- Grow the Best Team - Only hire people you’re convinced will make Faculty better. Take others’ development as seriously as your own. Build strong and collaborative teams
- Do Great Work - Master your craft. Take pride in your work, even when no one is watching. Demand the highest standards from yourself and others. Work hard, but do it sustainably
- Be Humble & Kind - Recognise that you’re always learning, and have something to learn from everyone. Always make the decision that is best for faculty, but treat people kindly as you do it
- Act with Integrity - Have the courage to maintain integrity even when it’s costly to do so. Demand this from others without hesitation
- Seek Truth - Seek the truth over winning the argument. Understand the root cause. Create an atmosphere in which the best idea succeeds, regardless of who or where it comes from.
- Maximise Impact - Care about the impact of your work. Find the thing that is most important to your customer. Design the best solution, not just what’s easiest or fashionable. Get it done fast. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Marc Warner
(CEO)Previously a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing.
Andrew Brookes
(CTO)Previously a CTO at Hillgate and Vice President at BlackRock.
Angie Ma
(Co-Founder)Previously a Scientific Consultant at Bio Nano Consulting.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faculty
Angie Ma (Co-Founder)
- AI changes everything, and so must we to make sure our people reflect the real diversity of society. We believe that recruiting talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds encourages people to think differently and be more creative
- We welcome difference whether it’s ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability so please be yourself!
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