Director of Technology, AI

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🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

🏥 Healthcare

Food & Beverage • Manufacturing • Healthcare

SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare is a company that specializes in providing a range of eye care products, particularly aimed at managing ocular surface diseases. They offer a variety of preservative-free ocular lubricants under brands such as HYLO, Hycosan, and OPTASE, targeting severe dry eye disease, MGD, and Blepharitis. Their product line includes eye drops, eyelid wipes, and dietary supplements to support eye health. With a presence in Ireland and the UK, SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare supports clinicians and patients by offering high-quality eye care solutions and conducting seminars on well-being related to dry eye conditions.

📋 Description

• Build and lead Scope Technology, bringing software, data and AI together under one function • Own Scope’s technology, data and AI agenda end to end • Set and own the technology, data and AI strategy and review it every three to six months • Build the function, hire Product & Emerging Technology and AI & Automation leads, develop the Business Systems, Data & Platform team, and add capability as the agenda grows • Own the technology budget, vendor strategy and supplier portfolio • Set operating rhythm, governance and reporting for technology • Contribute to the Scope Leaders Forum and translate technical choices into commercial consequences for leadership and the Board • Consolidate data operations into one governed backbone covering warehouse, pipelines and business intelligence tooling • Establish platform, business and AI data responsibilities • Broaden the existing information systems team into the business integration backbone and create development pathways • Define target architecture, standards, patterns and controls for new systems • Install product ownership across Optase MX2, Optase Connect and Scope Connect, and consolidate products onto a shared platform • Move development to an open, modern and AI-assisted team-owned toolchain • Introduce predictable, visible and reportable delivery discipline • Work alongside R&D on software within Scope’s device products while device engineering remains with R&D • Run AI as a governed service across commercial, medical, regulatory, quality, supply chain and operational teams • Set AI governance, guardrails and responsible-use standards covering GDPR, the EU AI Act and US privacy requirements • Lead company-wide AI capability building with Talent & Learning Development • Advise leadership on the business value and limitations of AI, including agentic tools • Own technology obligations under Scope’s ISO 13485 quality management system, including computer system validation • Ensure platforms, data pipelines and AI tools are designed for validation from the outset • Own information security, cyber resilience and data protection strategically across Ireland, the UK and the US • Partner with Quality and Regulatory functions to support quality and regulatory standards • Formalise build-versus-buy decisions and provide technical due diligence for business development, in-licensing and acquisitions • Maintain decision records for technology investments

🎯 Requirements

• A degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience is required • Senior technology leadership as a Director, Vice President, Head of Technology or CTO, with full ownership of a technology function • A record of building or substantially reshaping a technology function, creating structure where little existed • Experience consolidating a fragmented estate, bringing previously separate codebases, platforms or data operations together • Experience deploying and governing AI in a business, including current generative and agentic tools, beyond research or proof of concept • Experience owning software products and turning round under-performing or dated technology • Experience building data as an asset: warehouse, business intelligence, governance and one source of truth • Experience building and hiring a technology team, including senior appointments, and developing existing team members • Experience owning a technology budget and supplier portfolio, including decisions to stop investing • Experience delivering technology within a regulated quality system, such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals or healthcare, including validation of systems affecting product or quality records • Willingness to work in growing or lean organisations where resources are tight • Experience with software operating alongside hardware or connected devices and working with device engineering teams • Experience with technical due diligence for acquisitions or in-licensing, and integrating acquired technology and teams • Experience operating across Ireland, the UK and the US, including EU and US data protection requirements • Experience in consumer healthcare, eyecare or businesses that sell through healthcare professionals • Ability to diagnose before building and hold that position under pressure • Pragmatic approach to build versus buy • Commercial literacy and ability to explain technology choices as commercial consequences • Ability to influence without authority across Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain and Operations • Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including board papers • Ability to develop a strong number two and elevate an existing team • Comfort with regularly re-pointed strategy, pace and working directly with the CEO • Problem-solving mindset • Alignment with Scope values: Authentic, Creative, Driven and The Craic • High standards of confidentiality and integrity • Willing and able to travel regularly between Scope’s sites in Ireland, the UK and the US (approximately 20–25%) • Postgraduate or professional qualification in technology leadership, architecture, information security, data or AI is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance related bonus • 24 days annual leave (pro rata) • Healthcare allowance beginning post probation and increasing at 2 and 5 years service • Pension contributions through Zurich beginning post probation and increasing at 2, 5 and 8 years service • Company sick pay scheme • Further Education policy • Professional Membership

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