deeplay is a product IT company. We create systems and solutions in the field of intelligent games.
We value ideological people who are energized by non-standard tasks and professional challenges. Those who see opportunities and strive to use them for growth and development. If this approach resonates with you, we'll be glad to see you among our teammates!
We are currently looking for a leader who will help transform existing AI initiatives, internal products, and experiments into a working system for using AI within the holding. We need a person who can establish a clear approach to AI: define where AI creates real business value, how to develop team competencies, and how to launch and scale successful cases.
Responsibilities
- Formulate and develop an AI strategy within the holding: principles, priorities, target areas, and clear criteria for selecting initiatives.
- Conduct diagnostics of processes and, together with the teams, identify scenarios where AI can provide measurable effects: process acceleration, reduction of manual work, increased decision quality, or new business opportunities.
- Formulate and manage a portfolio of AI initiatives: from idea and effect assessment to pilot, implementation, and scaling.
- Build a framework for AI competencies and maturity levels for teams and functions.
- Assist units in finding, formulating, and prioritizing AI cases, launching initial implementations, and transferring approaches to teams so they can develop such initiatives independently.
- Create mechanisms for sharing best practices: collect cases, working approaches, mistakes, and solutions that can be applied in other teams.
- Collaborate with technical teams and architects: understand where a separate product or development is needed for implementation, and where existing tools can be used.
- Define and track effect metrics: solution usage, time and resource savings, process speed, quality, impact on business results.
Requirements
- Experience in leading AI transformation, AI direction, or AI initiative portfolio in a product, technology, or large operational environment.
- Practical experience in implementing AI/GenAI/LLM solutions into business processes, internal functions, or products — from case identification to launch and effect assessment.
- Experience in developing or participating in the development of an AI strategy, roadmap, maturity model, assessment system, or approach to scaling AI solutions.
- Ability to work with managers of different levels, consolidate different positions into a common plan, and drive changes without direct subordination of all participants.
- Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of modern AI/LLM tools, AI agents, RAG approaches, and typical implementation scenarios.
- Experience in managing an initiative portfolio, prioritization, budgeting, and economic effect assessment.
- Strong systemic thinking, independence, ability to work in an ambiguous environment, and consistently bring initiatives to fruition.
Will be a plus:
- Experience in developing AI communities, training programs, or a network of internal AI ambassadors.
- Experience in transforming internal AI solutions into products for the external market.
Conditions
- Flexible approach to the format and location of work — choose any place on the map or one of our comfortable offices in Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Saint Petersburg.
- We regularly organize offline meetings for distributed teams to get to know teammates better.
- Minimum bureaucracy — we try to make all decisions promptly and during meetings.
- Flexible business processes that allow for easy adaptation to market changes and company needs.
- Corporate culture with shared values that set a unified direction and help make decisions at all levels.
- Easy and open communication: you can message any employee, including top management, on the corporate messenger.
- All the benefits of an accredited IT company.
- Official employment, vacation and sick leave payment according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
Training and Development:
- Competency assessment and development of an individual plan to enhance your skills.
- Annual performance review with useful recommendations from the team and the opportunity to see your achievements through the eyes of your teammates.
- Mentorship and support programs from more experienced colleagues.
- Partial reimbursement of training costs.
- Regular knowledge sharing sessions, hackathons, meetups, broadcasts, tournaments.
- English language learning for everyone, twice a week.
Corporate Life:
- We openly share news about the company's development: we regularly conduct interviews and internal business events with deeplay's management and experts.
- We maintain up-to-date internal information: we systematically publish digests on the company's strategy, products, and technologies.
- We organize local team-building events for teams.
- We develop thematic communities: we hold esports tournaments, participate in quizzes/brain games, and sports challenges.
- We provide sponsorship to relevant university faculties, present technical expertise at external events, and create our own educational projects.
P.S.: Although we've tried to include as much detail as possible, we still have more to tell. We'd love to get acquainted ;)
