AI Development Lead
- Multiple locations
- Hybrid
The Lead AI is the hands-on technical lead of our AI & Automation Centre of Excellence. You make AI real inside Basware: Claude, Copilot, Azure AI and the automation platforms around them, used well by every function and governed so adoption scales safely.
Our team is small. You don't hand off a strategy and step away. You build the proof of concept, validate it, and stay with it until people use it every day.
This role is about Basware's own adoption of AI, not the AI we sell to customers.
What you’ll do
- Design, build and deploy. Design, architect, build and deploy Ai solutions. Turn what works into repeatable patterns, and track adoption and value after launch.
- Assess and shape ideas. Be the front door for AI adoption driven transformation across the organization. Test feasibility with working prototypes, check data flows and risk, and shape each idea into a solution on our existing tools.
- Run the AI platforms. Configure and integrate the platforms: architecture, access management, integrations, and rollout and operating model.
- Govern. Define and build governance policy, risk management, data classification etc. and implement them as technical controls teams can follow. Every use case goes live through this process. Work with Legal and Security on GDPR and EU AI Act requirements.
- Enable. Build playbooks, patterns, and working examples, and teach by building alongside the people who use them. Support AI champions in each function. Set and apply practical patterns for AI-assisted software development.
- Report and grow. Keep the AI steering group informed on value, cost, and risk. Grow the team as the CoE scales.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
What you bring
Must-haves
- Solid software development experience, with recent hands-on work building with LLMs and enterprise AI tools
- A track record of designing and deploying AI use cases into production and sustaining real adoption, beyond pilots.
- Experience implementing and governing AI tools at enterprise scale, including AI-assisted development
- Clear understanding of how data moves and what leaves our tenancy, with working fluency in cloud, security, data privacy, integration architecture etc.
- Practical knowledge of privacy and security for AI: GDPR, EU AI Act, data residency and classification
- Good judgment on where AI adds value and where it doesn’t
- Strong cross-functional working relationships with business teams, IT and Security
- Experience mentoring or leading people in a player-coach role
Nice to have
- Built a Centre of Excellence or enablement function
- Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform rollout experience
- Workflow automation and orchestration tooling
- Familiarity with finance, sales, marketing and HR processes
- FinOps for AI and tooling spend
Great Place to Work
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We Drive Customer Value
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We Take Ownership
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We Are Bold
About the company
Basware is how the world’s best finance teams gain complete control of every invoice, every time. Our Intelligent Invoice Lifecycle Management Platform ensures end-to-end efficiency, compliance and control for all invoice transactions. Powered by the world’s most sophisticated invoice-centric AI – trained on over 2 billion invoices – Basware's Intelligent Automation drives real ROI by transforming finance operations. We serve 6,500+ customers globally and are trusted by industry leaders including DHL, Heineken and Sony. Fueled by 40 years of specialized expertise with $10+ trillion in total spend handled, we are pioneering the next era of finance.
Joining Basware means you’ll join a team filled with innovators, passionate about their work and enthusiastic about the industry we’ve pioneered. You’ll work alongside highly motivated, capable, and friendly individuals who collaborate to deliver world-class solutions and services. A critical part of our culture is the high amount of trust we put into our employees—we want everyone to make a difference, so we offer flexibility in how you work, giving you the freedom and support to deliver your best results. We truly live our values where:
We Drive Customer Value, We Take Ownership and We Are Bold in everything we do, to make it all just happen for our customers.
2025Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Accounts Payable Applications. Basware and Deloitte create Center of Excellence
2024Launch of World’s 1st AP-Powered GenAI
2023Growth through acquisitions, Glantus and AP Matching
2022Basware became a privately-held corporation in a go-private transaction led by software private equity firm Accel-KKR
2020Recognized market leader, including Gartner Magic Quadrant. Global operations, 20+ offices worldwide
2012Launch of cloud-based B2B platform for transaction collaboration on Basware's Network
2005Launch of fully integrated Purchase-to-Pay solution suite
2000Basware listed on Helsinki Nasdaq, launch of purchase management software & e-invoicing service
1992Launch of first financial management software
1985Basware founded in Finland
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