Head of AI Platforms & Deployment @ Moneybox

About Moneybox

At Moneybox, our mission is to give everyone the means to get more out of life. We're guided by our belief that wealth isn't about the money, it's about the means to more - more freedom, opportunities, possibilities, and peace of mind. Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform, helping over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they’re saving and investing, buying their first home, or planning for retirement.

Job Brief

Moneybox engineering serves more than 2M customers and runs a live service handling over 20M API requests a day. We have agreed a company-wide AI Platforms strategy, backed by a business case, and we are now building the team to deliver it. This is a newly created function and you will be its first hire.

The Head of AI Platforms & Deployment is a player-manager role reporting to the Engineering Director, owning both sides of that strategy: the AI Platforms capability pillars (control, monitoring and sandboxing; agentic workflow orchestration; knowledge capture) and the AI Deployment team of forward-deployed engineers who put AI to work on real business problems. You will be hands-on from day one - enabling business deployment of AI with the tools we have today - whilst also building and delivering a business-driven, multi-year AI platforms strategy and hiring and managing the team that executes it.

Why now:

AI offers Moneybox significant opportunities, and unlocking them safely means managing the risks that come with it. The controls and capabilities that make that possible (gateways, sandboxing, guardrails, monitoring, perimeter defence) need dedicated leadership to build.
Demand for AI-enabled business systems is real and, without a safe path, goes underground. Someone must own the graduation ladder from "works for me" to owned, reviewed business system.
We are hosting customer-facing AI models as part of our Aurora financial guidance service. Serving these safely, securely and at scale needs a dedicated engineering owner.
We need to evolve our current Claude, Gemini and other frontier LLM deployments into a coherent, safe and effective strategic deployment platform.

You are not coming in to write a strategy deck. Pace and learning are key: we expect you to run two tracks in parallel from day one - enable the do-ers, helping the business use AI safely with what we have today rather than gating everything behind platform build, and build the strategic platform. Key decisions should be made within your first two to three months and material platform improvements live within six. You will hire further engineers before the end of the year, growing the team as the benefits compound.

What You'll Do

Own the AI platform strategy. Risk management, horizon scanning, supplier selection and vendor management, business case ownership, and benefits realisation through a coherent, business-driven delivery roadmap that is trusted by stakeholders across Moneybox.

Build and lead the AI Deployment team. Hire, line-manage and set the engagement priorities and delivery standards for a team of forward-deployed AI engineers, working alongside embedded specialists while we hire. Grow into managing both the platform and deployment sub-teams as the function expands.

Own perimeter safety in an AI-native world. Set and own our defensive AI strategy, with execution carried out in collaboration with Tech Ops. Our Principal Cloud Architect, who owns overall cloud strategy, is a key partner.

Own AI platforms and costs. Harnesses, tooling, cost management, forecasting and optimisation (including usage-based pricing shifts), and the staff access model. This includes:

AI safety for internal use: sandboxing, policy, integrations, MCP governance, usage guardrails and monitoring expectations.

The three platform pillars: control, monitoring and sandboxing (LLM and MCP gateway, anonymisation, local hardening, sandboxed cloud agent hosting); agentic workflow orchestration (a "software factory" in the cloud with hybrid self-serve and engineering-managed workflows); and knowledge capture and organisation.

AI workflow tooling and the tiered graduation ladder from personal tool, to shared tool, to business system.

Evolving existing deployments: tactical enhancement of what we run today so it aligns with the strategic direction.

Own model hosting and scaling. Hosting and scaling for AI and model workloads, including the customer-facing models behind our Aurora financial guidance service, with execution in collaboration with Tech Ops. Model safety and performance for customer-facing AI is shared with our Decisioning and Data Science teams: they own what happens inside the model, you own everything surrounding it.

Enable the do-ers. Give departments a working answer for using AI today - clear guardrails on what is allowed now and fast risk assessment rather than blanket restriction - and make sure demand arrives through the front door.

This role is explicitly not ML model development or data science, general cloud infrastructure ownership, or general engineering delivery - although our squads and engineering leads are customers of the platforms you build.

Who You Are

A proven engineering leader who has gone deep on AI. You have managed engineers and managers, run programmes, owned budgets and supplier relationships, and in the last two to three years you have owned an AI platform or enablement capability in a real organisation. Not a spectator or strategist-only.

A player-manager. You are comfortable getting hands-on in the early months and equally comfortable stepping back as the team you have hired takes it on.

Strategic and accountable. You build and deliver a 12-18 month strategy aligned to company objectives, make well-informed and timely decisions, and take full ownership of your function's performance and commitments.

Unusually cross-functional. Every department is your stakeholder and customer. You will be recognised as the AI platforms expert at Moneybox, influencing exec and departmental leaders and resolving boundaries with Tech Ops and Decisioning through shared goals rather than turf.

A team builder. You will build this team from scratch rather than inherit one, establishing a performance culture, developing your people, and running a team that itself models AI-enabled productivity.

Commercially literate. You can express platform investment in ROI and EBITDA terms to a non-technical exec, and defend a risk position - on a connector approval, a token-versus-agent permission gap, a vendor - with clear reasoning.

Experience & Skill

Essential

Proven engineering leadership: has managed engineers and managers, run programmes, owned budgets and supplier relationships.

Has owned an AI platform or enablement capability in a real organisation in the last 2-3 years: deployed AI tooling company-wide, set governance, managed cost at scale.

Has built or significantly scaled a team.

Current, hands-on fluency with the modern AI stack: frontier model platforms, agentic tooling and harnesses, MCP and integration patterns, evals, prompt and context engineering.

AI security and governance: sandboxing, gateways (LLM, MCP, AI), DLP, guardrail enforcement and data-boundary reasoning; able to form and defend risk positions.

Cost engineering: usage-based pricing models, forecasting and optimisation levers.

Enough software and cloud architecture depth to hold your own with Architects, Tech Ops and Decisioning, and to get hands-on with the platform in the early months. Our core stack is .NET on Azure and Python is the standard for AI, so we need polyglot pragmatism over allegiance to any single stack.

Vendor and supplier evaluation and management in a fast-moving market.

Evidence of business-case thinking: can express platform investment in ROI and EBITDA terms to a non-technical exec.

Desirable

Experience in financial services or another regulated industry, or a comparable risk-context environment.

Hands-on experience selecting or implementing LLM/MCP gateways, sandboxed agent hosting or agentic workflow orchestration platforms.

Experience serving customer-facing AI models in production and partnering with data science teams on model safety and performance.

About the company

Moneybox offers a mobile app that helps people save and invest by pairing automatic savings features with a range of investment and retirement accounts. Users link their bank cards and can have rounding-up of purchases feed into savings, then allocate funds into Cash ISAs, Lifetime ISAs, and Stocks and Shares ISAs, plus investment accounts and pension services. The app also charges subscription fees and management fees on its investment products, providing a simple, mobile-first way to grow wealth over time. What sets Moneybox apart is its focus on beginners and everyday users: a straightforward interface, automatic micro-savings, and an integrated suite of savings, investment, and pension options within one platform. The company aims to make saving and investing accessible to a broad audience—especially millennials and Gen Z—so they can build long-term wealth with minimal friction.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$208.2M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Moneybox hit £115 million revenue and third straight profitable year in 2025.
April 2026 AUA topped £22 billion after 100,000 net new Q1 customers.
June 2026 pension drawdown and Aurora advice widen cross-sell across retirement assets.

What critics are saying

Trading 212 and Plum compress Moneybox cash-ISA economics in 2026.
PISCES secondary pricing lacks IPO discipline, risking valuation whiplash before a 2027 listing.
Revenue still depends on regulated savings wrappers; FCA rule changes could crush margins.

What makes Moneybox unique

Moneybox pioneered UK fintech liquidity via 2026 PISCES employee share sale.
It bundles Cash ISAs, Stocks and Shares ISAs, SIPPs, and pensions.
Moneybox’s 1.9 million customers and £22 billion AUA create powerful brand trust.

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Benefits

Health Insurance
Pension
Hybrid Work Options
Annual Learning Budget
Flexible Work Hours
Private Medical Insurance
Gym Membership
Paid Holidays
Paid Vacation
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

Daily Mail

Oct 9th, 2026

Moneybox launches three new ready-made funds and cuts its fees.

Moneybox launches three new ready-made funds and cuts its fees. Updated: 03:11 EDT, 9 October 2026 Products featured in this article are independently selected by This is Money's specialist journalists. If you open an account using links which have an asterisk, This is Money will earn an affiliate commission. We do not allow this to affect our editorial independence. Investment platform Moneybox has launched three new actively managed ready-made funds and cut its fees for those who want to invest in them. Ready-made funds are handy for those who prefer to leave investing to experts. You just need to choose your attitude to risk based on your goals. You can buy the new funds within Moneybox's investing accounts, including its stocks and shares Isa and personal pension. Moneybox charges 0.15 per cent in account fees for these funds, as opposed to 0.45 per cent for other investments. It has also scrapped its £1 a month subscription fee for those with £5,000 or more across qualifying investing and savings accounts. Moneybox has launched the three funds in partnership with the investment manager Amundi. They have different risk profiles - cautious, balanced and adventurous. How do Moneybox's new fees compare with other platforms? Moneybox is aimed at novice investors, as well as those who might have managed investments elsewhere and are keen to cut costs. The fee cuts now make it more competitive against some of its closest rivals including AJ Bell Dodl, Monzo and Plum. You can see how the fees stack up against different platforms below: HOW DOES MONEYBOX COMPARE WITH RIVALS? | / | Annual admin charge | Choice of investments | Other notes | / | | AJ Bell Dodl* | 0.15%, minimum of £1 a month | Eight ready-made funds, selection of ETFs, UK and US shares | Part of the larger investment platform AJ Bell, founded in 1995 | / | | Moneybox | 0.15% for own ready-made funds, 0.45% otherwise | Three ready-made funds, selection of ETFs, US shares | £1 a month subscription fee on top of account fee, waived if you have £5k or more with Moneybox | / | | Monzo | 0.25% or 0.2% for paid Plus, Premium, Perks or Max account holders | Three ready-made funds, selection of themed funds (ETFs) | Capped at £250 (or £200 on paid plans). No fees on Isa or investment account if you have Aura credit card | / | | Plum* | £3.99 a month for Plus, £14.99 a month for Premium | 26 mutual funds, 3,000+ stocks | Full range of investments only available on Premium | / | | Source: This is Money, published information on providers' websites | AJ Bell Dodl* also has an annual charge of 0.15 per cent of the value of your investments and the minimum you'll pay is £1 monthly. For those with less than £5,000 to invest, AJ Bell Dodl should work out cheaper because of Moneybox's extra £1 charge on top of its platform fee. AJ Bell Dodl also has a wider range of ready-made investment portfolios, with six growth funds, one ethical fund and one pension builder fund available. However Moneybox has a broader range of financial products on offer for those who prefer to manage more of their money in one place. It offers cash savings products and has built a reputation as a champion of the lifetime Isa (Lisa). Its cash Lisa is currently sitting at a strong rate of 4.65 per cent, which includes a fixed 1.85 per cent boost for 12 months. Just beware that if you decide to transfer out of the Lisa after a year, Moneybox's terms mean that you can't then reopen it if you want to move back to the platform. This is Money says... If you're keen to start investing but aren't sure where to begin, you could do worse than Moneybox now it has cut fees on its ready-made funds. A 0.15 per cent platform charge is competitive, as is the underlying 0.29 per cent fund management fee. Taken together you'll pay 0.44 per cent a year. This is cost effective for actively managed investments aimed at beginners. Having different pricing tiers does risk creating a confusing fee structure however, which is something that legacy investment platforms such as AJ Bell*, Fidelity* and Hargreaves Lansdown* struggle with. Retaining the expensive 0.45 per cent platform charge on other investments means that Moneybox customers are more likely to choose the cheaper funds. If you are more of a do-it-yourself investor who wants a wider range of investments than Moneybox's ready-made ones, have a look at lower-cost platforms like Freetrade* and Trading 212*. You can read our guide to investing for beginners if you'd like to get started but aren't quite sure how.

DriveWealth

Jul 22nd, 2026

DriveWealth named to CNBC World's Top FinTech Companies 2026 list.

DriveWealth named to CNBC World's Top FinTech Companies 2026 list. * July 22, 2026 * Press Releases Financial technology platform recognized for a third consecutive year, reflecting its continued global growth and innovation NEW YORK- July 22, 2026 - DriveWealth, a global B2B Brokerage-as-a-Service platform designed to make investing easier for partners and their customers, was recognized on the fourth edition of CNBC's "World's Top FinTech Companies 2026" list released today. The award is presented by CNBC and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider, and recognizes DriveWealth for its global efforts to deliver innovative investing and financial services solutions to banks, brokerages, and fintechs, and their customers around the world. "Being named to CNBC's World's Top FinTech Companies list for a third consecutive year reflects DriveWealth's accelerated growth and continued commitment to power the future of global investing," said Naureen Hassan, CEO at DriveWealth. "This recognition comes at a pivotal moment, following our participation in DTCC's landmark tokenization initiative this month. It's proof that the newest capabilities in the market can be delivered with the same institutional rigor and platform stability our clients have counted on for years. We're proud to keep scaling innovation on behalf of our clients and the millions of investors they serve." The World's Top FinTech Companies list recognizes 250 companies across eight different market segments: Payments, Neobanking, Alternative Financing, Wealth Technology, Digital Assets, Enterprise Fintech, Insurtech, and Regtech. The segment-specific metrics were derived from publicly available data, including annual reports, company websites, and media monitoring across more than 2,000 companies. Over the past year, DriveWealth has significantly broadened its product suite with the addition of Alternative Asset Funds, Business Accounts for corporate entities, and an enhanced Fully Paid Securities Lending program, while bolstering consumer protection through excess SIPC insurance covering up to $50 million per account and excess FDIC insurance covering up to $1 million per customer. The company also expanded its global footprint, supporting an average of more than 6 million trades per day for its B2B partners worldwide and bringing U.S. equities investing to consumers in Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Turkey through new client relationships. DriveWealth clients Acorns, C6 Bank, Chipper Cash, Freetrade, Inter, Moneybox, MoneyLion, OnePay, Revolut, Step, and Uala were also recognized in CNBC's "World's Top FinTech Companies 2026" list. About DriveWealth DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology platform. Its core business is providing Brokerage-as-a-Service, powering the investing and trading experiences for digital wallets, broker dealers, asset managers, and consumer brands. DriveWealth's APIs provide its partners with a modern, extensible and flexible toolkit to develop everything from traditional investment workflows to more innovative techniques like rounding up purchases into fractional share ownership. DriveWealth, LLC is a registered broker dealer, member of FINRA and SIPC. Visit legal.drivewealth.com for full disclosures. For more information, visit www.drivewealth.com. Discover more. * Jun 2026 * Press Releases * Apr 2026 * Press Releases * Mar 2026 * Press Releases Ready to get started? Connect with DriveWealth Holdings, Inc. and let's discuss how to empower your clients with modern, innovative products and solutions. Take control of your business using its Client dashboard to manage many of the "back office" investing functions.

The Next Web

Jul 14th, 2026

Moneybox hits $1B unicorn valuation via $57M staff share sale on London's new Pisces market

Moneybox, the UK savings and investing app, has achieved unicorn status with a valuation of £800 million ($1.1 billion). The valuation stems from a £45 million staff share sale on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (Pisces), rather than a traditional funding round. The sale runs through Crowdcube at a fixed price, with employees selling first and an auction following in July. Access is invite-only. Founded in 2016, Moneybox serves over 1.9 million customers and holds more than £23 billion in assets. The company surpassed £115 million in revenue in 2025 and recorded its third consecutive year of profit. Pisces allows private companies to open occasional trading windows, enabling staff and early backers to cash out without a full IPO. Other companies testing the platform include Wayve and potentially Revolut.

Tech Funding News

Jul 13th, 2026

Moneybox becomes a $1.1B unicorn testing London's new Pisces market with a £45M staff sale — TFN

Moneybox reaches a $1.1B valuation via a £45M employee secondary sale on London’s new Pisces market, testing private liquidity without an IPO.

City A.M.

May 12th, 2025

Moneybox: Savings and investment platform gears up for possible IPO

Savings and investment platform Moneybox is gearing up for a potential initial public offering (IPO) as it bolsters its boardroom with a new hire.

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Head of AI Platforms & Deployment

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