Head of AI Development

We're building Hyphen's AI unit from scratch. This is the first hire. You'll set the technical foundations — the architecture, the standards, the way we build — across a portfolio of global education companies.

Everything that comes after depends on getting this right. Salary: £90k–£120k base WHAT HYPHEN IS Hyphen is a portfolio of global education companies spanning international education and AI skills — INTO, INTO Qualifications, iO-Sphere, Nurture Higher Education, The AI Board, and more in the pipeline. We have big ambitions.

We're building new businesses, launching new products, and transforming how our companies operate — and we're doing it fast. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Lead the technical delivery of Hyphen's new AI unit — the team responsible for building new products and businesses across the portfolio • Set the architecture and standards that make it possible to build fast without cutting corners on security, scalability, or reliability • Be the human gate on anything touching auth, payments, or personal data — you decide what ships • Work directly with group leadership and AI Builders to design and build new products from scratch • Make sure everything we build can scale — not just today but as the portfolio grows WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR • Senior full-stack engineer who builds with LLMs — not just prompts them • Security-aware; you know what production-readiness means and you don't cut corners • Comfortable working autonomously and willing to push back when the technical direction is wrong • You've shipped things that real people use • You haven't come from a large org where security, infra, and architecture were someone else's problem — you've owned all of it.