AI Transformation Lead

Company: Economist Group
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead AI-driven transformation initiatives across The Economist Group, partnering with Editorial, EIU, Enterprise Sales, B2C and central functions to identify high-impact opportunities and embed AI-enabled ways of working. You shape end-to-end workflows, build prototypes and drive production implementations with cross-functional teams. You will prioritize opportunities with clear strategic and commercial value and measure benefits to scale adoption. This is a hands-on, commercially minded role focused on measurable outcomes and sustainable change. You join a collaborative culture that values curiosity, integrity and innovation, helping to unlock trusted insights at scale

Pay / Benefits

  • pension or 401(k)
  • private health insurance
  • counselling and wellbeing resources
  • Work From Anywhere program
  • generous annual and parental leave
  • volunteering days and moving-home days

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business areas to identify, assess and prioritise AI automation opportunities
  • Understand current workflows and reimagine them end to end beyond simple digitisation
  • Define problem statements, success measures, scope and benefits, ranking low-value use cases
  • Build working prototypes, models and integrations and test with users
  • Take proven use cases into production with appropriate resources
  • Drive adoption through training and embedding into daily workflows
  • Track usage, outcomes and realised benefits to refine or scale initiatives
  • Report progress and blockers into the AI Internal Automation programme rhythm
  • Stay current on AI tooling and assess applicability of new developments

Key requirements

  • 4+ years in transformation, consulting, product, operations, business analysis or similar cross-functional roles
  • Practical experience applying AI, automation, data or digital tools to improve processes
  • Hands-on experience building with AI and agentic tools
  • Commercial judgement and ability to focus on high-impact opportunities
  • Ability to understand and redesign operational processes around user needs
  • Experience leading discovery activities and defining target-state processes
  • Experience supporting adoption and embedding new capabilities into daily workflows
  • Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and aligning priorities
  • stakeholder management
  • strategic thinking
  • communication
  • AI and automation tooling
  • data handling and integration
  • prototyping and rapid experimentation

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Posted: October 16th, 2026