AI Data Scientist (KTP Associate)

The duties of the post will include:

Technical

• Design, develop and deploy agentic AI systems to support data management, decision-making and communication optimisation within RevWise’s affiliate marketing operations.
• Stay up to date with emerging developments in agentic AI, large language models (LLMs), and autonomous systems, ensuring the project leverages state-of-the-art techniques.
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines to ingest, process and analyse data from multiple sources (e.g. APIs, call transcripts, emails, and internal systems).
• Develop scalable and production-ready AI solutions, considering performance, reliability and integration with existing business systems.
• Implement and evaluate machine learning and AI models, including real-time analytics, predictive modelling and intelligent automation.
• Ensure all technical solutions are developed in line with data governance, privacy, and ethical AI standards.

People/change

• Work closely with RevWise stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with business needs and deliver measurable value.
• Support the implementation of a unified data strategy, ensuring consistent and high-quality data ingestion across the organisation.
• Deliver training and knowledge transfer activities to ensure staff can effectively use and benefit from the developed AI systems.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to support organisational adoption of AI, addressing concerns and promoting a positive, collaborative approach to innovation.
• Act as a bridge between academic research and industry practice, ensuring effective knowledge exchange between the University and the company.

Project Delivery

• Take responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of the KTP project, ensuring milestones, timelines and objectives are achieved.
• Work collaboratively with the academic and company supervisors to monitor progress, manage risks and adapt plans where required.
• Engage in continuous evaluation and testing of developed systems, including pilot deployments and user feedback.
• Contribute to research outputs and dissemination activities, including reports, presentations, and academic publications where appropriate.
• Maintain strong engagement within a fast-growing SME environment, ensuring continued buy-in and demonstrating impact throughout the project lifecycle.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the level of the post as required to support the successful delivery of the KTP project.

These duties are a guide to the work that the post holder will initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances.

Benefits

As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:

• A personal development budget of £5,667 (exclusive of salary).
• Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
• An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
• Full access to university resources to complete the project.
• World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.

The project scope is to: design, trial and embed an agentic AI system for data management and communication optimisation.