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We embed finance directly into agricultural value chains, so farmers can invest in their farms, and agri companies can plan with confidence.\n\nJob Summary: We’re looking for an experienced AI professional with both technical hands-on and leadership experience to take our algorithms to new crops and countries, and bring GenAI and agentic AI into the way we work.\n\nKey Duties and Responsibilities: \n\nYou’ll lead our algorithms and applied AI work – making our credit models work in new places, and putting AI to work across the business. 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Expansion is faster, and the team is ready for a bigger business.\n\nQualifications, Skills and Experience: \n\nExperienced – 6+ years in data science, ML or AI, including 2+ years leading technical delivery\n\nBroad – you’ve applied AI to very different problems, and adapted when the first approach didn’t work\n\nProduction-proven – you’ve deployed AI and scaled it, and kept quality, reliability and cost in check\n\nTechnically strong – stats, ML, programming and hands-on GenAI, with a quantitative degree or equivalent\n\nA fast learner – no credit or agri finance background needed, we’ll teach you our methods\n\nYou’re hands-on – team before titles – and you build your own playbook. 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