Head of Data, Technology & AI

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🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Talent Safari is dedicated to connecting Africa's best talent with innovative startups, facilitating quality-first hiring with a focus on customer success. The company expertly finds high-quality, vetted candidates for startups within two weeks, allowing clients to focus on their growth. With a team that has startup expertise and a vast community of professionals in various fields, Talent Safari provides an efficient recruitment process while ensuring satisfaction through a 90-day probation guarantee.

📋 Description

• Own the company-wide AI platform, tools, models, costs, permissions, logging, guardrails, and human review points • Build and ship AI agents and automations • Establish standards, templates, data access, training, and review processes for staff building AI tools • Automate lending workflows including lead qualification, KYC, credit assessment, credit scoring, investment committee memos, documentation, repayment schedules, disbursement, payment posting, communications, collections, portfolio monitoring, and regulatory reporting • Own and improve customer-facing AI agents for loan applications, customer support, and marketing • Maintain accurate data, authoritative sources for key metrics, reconciled portfolio numbers, documentation, and leadership dashboards • Own Musoni as the system of record, including usage, configuration, change control, vendor management, integrations, and legacy-tool retirement • Own the School Support Lead app roadmap, field-user needs, spending, and integrations with Musoni • Manage roadmaps, quarterly planning, sprints, standups, prioritization, delivery, and executive visibility • Own access controls, backups, secrets, audit logs, data protection, IT audits, security, and compliance • Directly manage the engineering, data, and IT support team, including help-desk oversight • Work directly with the CEO and enable the lending operation to become faster and more accurate without proportional headcount growth

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience building and shipping AI agents and automations used by real teams in production • Ability to evaluate AI agents against real outcomes, control costs, and implement guardrails and human checks • Previous experience owning a system of record and ensuring its accuracy and reliability • Experience governing a technology stack used by many non-engineers, including standards, access controls, and review processes • Five or more years of experience in lending, microfinance, or relevant financial services • Deep understanding of loan origination, credit assessment, documentation, disbursement, repayments, collections, and portfolio metrics such as PAR and outstanding balances • Experience automating or materially improving lending operations • Ability to independently write SQL to pull and reconcile numbers • Ability to design a clean, simple data model and ensure data integrity across systems • Experience with a core banking platform such as Musoni is a strong plus • Experience owning access, audit, and data protection in a regulated or audited environment • Experience operating in an emerging-markets context • Ability to work East African hours (EAT, UTC+3) • Ability to build with AI coding tools daily and read and review shipped work

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible and remote working • Competitive compensation benchmarked against market standards, role-specific qualifications, and performance • 100% medical insurance coverage for employees • 50% medical insurance coverage for eligible dependents • 3 calendar months of fully paid maternity leave • 14 days of fully paid paternity leave • 21 days of paid annual leave per year • Access to training opportunities • Potential sponsorship for professional development based on individual and departmental needs

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