90% Remote: Interim Team Lead AI (m/w/d) Nearshore possible, candidates from Poland favored
nemensis AG
Contact person: Shweta Patil
Posen, Poland
Description
For our client from the food industry, we are currently looking for an Interim Team Lead AI (m/w/d)
Position: Interim Team Lead AI (bridge assignment)
Duration: 3–4 months, maybe longer
Workload: 50–100%, flexible depending on candidate
Location: Based in Eastern Europe, ideally Poland;
Mobile Work: remote-first, with occasional travel to the Poland team location in Poznan and/or German HQ (South-West Bavaria)
Team: 4 direct reports: 1 AI Specialist, 1 Process Digitization Specialist, 2 Web Developers
Languages: Business-fluent English required; German or Polish a strong plus (team includes Polish colleagues)
Context
This interim assignment bridges the existing AI & Automation team until a permanent Team Lead AI is recruited and onboarded. The interim steps into an already-staffed team and already-running initiatives — the mandate is to keep essential projects and topics moving, not to build a new team or strategy from zero.
3. Main Tasks
- Keep ongoing AI projects and initiatives running and moving forward through the leadership transition, with execution as the main focus – not building a new team or strategy from scratch
- Lead the AI Ambassadors network together with the AI Specialist
- Further develop the existing AI strategy
- Uphold AI governance practices across the team's work
- Cover the stakeholder topics that are already running or actively requested (proactive stakeholder outreach is not the priority)
- Provide day-to-day leadership of the team as needed to keep the above on track – leadership is part of the role, but secondary to continuing the projects and topics
- Support on hands-on topics like writing prompts and building agents (no software development)
- Support a structured handover to the permanent Team Lead AI once recruited
4. Must-Have Requirements
- Hands-on experience in AI/ML, applied data science or AI-driven automation, able to pick up and continue running initiatives with no ramp-up phase
- Experience leading or coordinating a team, ideally including AI ambassador / champion networks
- General understanding of AI governance and responsible AI practices
- Technical AI knowledge with common LLMs like Clause, ChatGPT, Gemini etc.
- Immediate or short-notice availability (within days to a few weeks)
- Business-fluent English
5. Nice-to-Have
- Prior interim / fractional leadership experience
- Experience in FMCG / consumer goods or agricultural industry
- German or Polish language skills