Role Details:
Level: Lead
Start Date: 1st June 2026
Duration: 9 months
Day Rate: Dependant on experience
Weekly hours: 4.5 days min
Location: Remote, GMT/BST or CET friendly
In this role you will work alongside experienced AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers and Product Managers to prototype and bring to MVP the data and AI components of new city services for residents.
Overview of the role:
Your role will be hands-on, meaning you will be scoping and defining features and roadmaps for to help cities go from ideas to prototypes to MVPs.
You will also take a role in coaching the city teams, some of whom will be creating their own AI prototypes: e.g product coaching and guidance.
You will also be responsible for scoping: researching appropriate solutions, assessing feasibility, and ideating and designing suitable data and AI solutions.
There will also be opportunities to get involved in broader aspects of the program, for example scoping aspects of the city service and exploring approaches to address potential risks introduced through the application of AI and data.
Must have skills and experience:
Experience and confidence of key core AI concepts and technologies.
Experience in scoping, prototyping and launching data and AI-enabled products and/or product features
Experience in defining and refining problem statements
Experience in leading solution ideation sessions
Experience in discovering and documenting technical, organisational and user requirements
Ability to bring clarity when defining prototyping scope and objectives, while driving consensus among stakeholders and team members
Ability to working with engineers and data scientists to scope technical work
Ability to support feasibility assessments
Ability to actively identify potential blockers and risks and finding ways to remove/mitigate them and ensuring they are being addressed in our process
Confidence in communicating technical concepts to non-technical team members and stakeholders
Confidence in stakeholder engagement and coaching
Confidence in driving team alignment, maintain focus and momentum through shared ways of working and rituals
Ability to perform perform professional activities in Portuguese
Nice to have
Broader experience working with data, such as
Working with unstructured data, ie free text
Working with data in various languages
Working with geospatial data, including satellite data
Working with image data (for the purposes of computer vision), including video data
Broader experience working with in city and/or local government
Broader experience in Responsible AI
Broader experience working in complex projects with competing objectives
Services to include in contract (1-2 lines):
Working with multidisciplinary teams to go from idea to prototype
Developing production ready solutions that can scale
Working on AI enabled services
Playing a consultative role, ideally in a larger program of work
