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You will work closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable AI features while continuously improving infrastructure, observability, and evaluation workflows across all AI products.\nFor a leader with strong experience building and deploying AI systems in production, this is an opportunity to own multiple AI products, scale a high-performing AI team, and shape how AI is applied across the company.\nYour Challenge and Opportunity in This Role\nYou will define how AI is built, shipped, and scaled at JUPUS. As AI Lead, you are responsible for both strategic direction and execution, ensuring that AI systems across voice, chat, and document processing deliver real value to users.\nYou will lead the development and evolution of the AI across JUPUS’s three modules. The Website Chatbot turns website visitors into qualified inquiries. ‘Marie’, our AI Phone Assistant, handles inbound and outbound calls for law firms. 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