Fractional Head of AI

1 week ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Fractionus Full time $120,000 - $200,000 per year

Join the as a
Fractional AI Leader.
Architect AI interest into shipped outcomes: diagnose high-impact use-cases, prioritise by impact × feasibility, and lead short sprints that deliver measurable results (weeks, not quarters).

Typical work includes: RevOps agents, CX automations, retrieval-augmented knowledge tools, internal copilots, data pipelines, and light governance/evals. Contract/project-based, remote, matched to brands where your experience fits.

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Fractionus offers on-demand expertise, allowing businesses to scale with pre-vetted industry leaders in days, not weeks. Access top talent in marketing, strategy, operations, finance, technology, and creative fields — without long-term overheads. Fractionus specialises in providing fractional talent to deliver full-time impact.

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Fractional Head of AI

Qualifications

  • Shipped 2+ production AI projects with a clear business metric (share it).
  • Orchestration (Python/TS), n8n/Make, webhooks, Vercel/AWS.
  • Comfortable moving discovery → scoped plan → shipped MVP.
  • Depth with LLM APIs, retrieval (embeddings/vector DB), tools/agents, and evals.
  • Excellent leadership and project management abilities
  • Strong background in Computer Science and Data Science
  • Clear comms, async docs, tight handoffs.
  • Systems thinking across ops/marketing/support.
  • Familiarity with CRM/marketing/support stacks (HubSpot/Klaviyo/Zendesk/Gorgias/etc.

What you will do

  • Run discovery/triage calls; rank use-cases by impact × feasibility.
  • Draft a 2-week plan: scope, owner, stack, success metric.
  • Lead a sprint to ship one real win (agent, RAG tool, or automation).
  • Pick tooling, set evals/guardrails/observability; keep it sane and measurable.
  • Communicate async-first; 1–2 sync calls/week max.
  • Hand off cleanly to client ops; no long consulting tails.

How It Works

  • You apply once.
  • We vet every expert.
  • When a brand needs your skillset — we match you directly.
  • We get you the work and get you paid.

Apply directly at

Note: This is not a full-time role with just one company. It's a marketplace to get matched with multiple fractional opportunities through the Fractionus platform.

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