AI Strategy Consultant
Posted Today by SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The AI Strategy Consultant role involves providing urgent AI and data support to a mission-driven fintech company. The engagement is flexible, allowing for various arrangements, and focuses on high-impact work in areas such as RAG & PDF extraction, data validation, and model strategy. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with unstructured data and a strong background in AI systems. This position is fully remote or based in London or Bristol, with a day rate open for discussion.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and improve retrieval-augmented generation pipelines for complex financial documents.
- Design reliable data validation approaches combining AI automation with human review.
- Extract, structure, and maintain large datasets in a high-stakes environment.
- Systematic design and testing of prompts for data extraction and classification.
- Advise on LLM selection and manage model updates over time.
Key Skills:
- Proven hands-on experience with RAG and unstructured documents.
- Experience building validation pipelines with human-in-the-loop review.
- Strong prompt engineering skills.
- Experience with multiple AI models and managing updates in a live environment.
- Background in fintech, ESG, governance, or legal tech is desirable.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
AI & Data Expert - Flexible Day Rate Engagement Remote | Day Rate Open | Flexible Commitment I work exclusively with mission-led tech companies, and one of my favourite clients needs some urgent AI & Data support. They are a fast-growing fintech on a mission that genuinely matters and the work you'd be doing is high-impact from day one.
The opportunity This isn't a standard role and we're not looking for a standard candidate. The engagement is fully flexible it could be a block of days, an ongoing advisory arrangement, or somewhere in between. We'll shape it around the right person.
What you'll be working on You'll be embedded as a trusted expert across five core challenge areas:
- RAG & PDF extraction - building and improving retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that actually work with real-world financial documents. Not clean text. The messy, table-heavy, footnote-riddled kind.
- Data validation at scale - designing reliable approaches that combine AI automation with human review, because you know AI gets it wrong and you build the safety nets accordingly
- Financial & governance data management - extracting, structuring and maintaining large, complex datasets in a high-stakes environment
- Prompt engineering - systematic, evidence-based design and testing of prompts for data extraction and classification. Not vibes. Not iteration for its own sake.
- Model strategy - advising on LLM selection, cost/accuracy/latency trade-offs, and managing model updates over time. When someone asks which model to use and why, you have a real answer.
Who we're looking for You've been in the trenches. You've shipped real systems, dealt with genuinely messy data, and have strong opinions formed from production experience. Specifically, you'll have:
- Proven, hands-on RAG experience with unstructured documents - PDFs, filings, reports
- Built validation pipelines that combine automated checks with human-in-the-loop review
- Made deliberate, documented LLM selection decisions and lived with the consequences
- Strong, systematic prompt engineering skills
- Worked across multiple AI models and navigated updates and changes in a live environment
- A background in fintech, ESG, governance, legal tech or any domain where data accuracy carries real consequence - desirable but not essential
The one question I'll ask you Tell me about a time AI got the data wrong and you didn't catch it immediately - what happened and what did you change? If you have a great answer to that, I want to hear from you.
The detail Fully remote or London or Bristol Day rate open to discussion - Outside IR35 Flexible commitment - advisory, a block of days, or ongoing retainer Start: as soon as possible