Senior AI Manager (Development Leader)

• Melbourne or Brisbane | Remote-First Hybrid (Melbourne Office Optional: Mon & Tue)
• Reports to: Director of Operations
• Lead Client Strategy. Guide Delivery. Make AI Real.
• Salary: Up to $180,000 + Super

We're partnering with Pathfindr AI to hire a number of roles due to unprecedented growth within the business, and we can't be more excited to take these roles to market!

Pathfindr is not just another AI consultancy. In just one year, we’ve gone from zero clients to being named one of the AFR Most Innovative Companies of 2024 - helping government, ASX-10, and mid-market organisations go from AI hype to real-world results.

We don’t just advise—we design, build, and deliver. Now we’re looking for a confident, client-facing leader to help scale that impact.

What You'll Be Doing

This is a delivery leadership role with deep technical roots. You’ll be the engine behind our engineering teams—guiding architecture, managing people, and ensuring the work gets delivered at quality and pace.

• Lead and grow a high-performing development team (onshore and offshore), ensuring engineering standards and delivery discipline
• Take ownership of solution delivery across AI, automation, and internal tooling projects
• Architect and evolve our cloud-based infrastructure (mostly Azure), including DevOps pipelines and internal frameworks
• Drive consistent execution—from sprint planning and team workflows through to post-deployment QA and scalability
• Work cross-functionally with AI consultants, delivery leads, and client stakeholders to shape technical direction and unblock teams
• Support early-stage prototyping and POCs to help validate AI concepts in-market
• Continuously improve delivery playbooks, frameworks, and team processes as we scale

What You Bring

• Strong technical background in software engineering, system architecture, or DevOps
• Experience building and leading teams that ship production-grade platforms or products
• Comfort working across AI tools and LLMs (we don’t expect you to be a data scientist, but experience delivering AI features or building around them is a plus)
• Hands-on with cloud infra (Azure preferred), CI/CD, and internal tool development
• You know how to translate complexity into structure and keep projects moving
• Confident managing multiple workstreams and delivery paths
• Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments where you’ll wear many hats

Why Join Pathfindr?

This is not a role for someone who’s managed projects around tech. We need a technical delivery leader who has built the platforms, run the infrastructure, and led from within the tech itself — not just tracked it.

At Pathfindr, we:
✅ Move fast and work with cutting-edge AI technology.
✅ Give you ownership over high-impact AI and automation projects.
✅ Ensure you work with top-tier clients across government, enterprise, and startups.
✅ Offer a hybrid work environment with access to Melbourne’s Stone & Chalk.

If you're looking for a role where you can lead delivery, scale execution, and build world-class AI-driven solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Let’s build something big.