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Lead
AI Leadership & Strategy
The people who choose the technical direction, build the function and make AI accountable to the business.
Chief AI OfficerVP AI / MLHead of AI
AI talent, taken seriously
AI ambition
is everywhere.
People who deliver it
are not.
SeriousAbout AI finds the leaders, researchers, engineers, product minds and commercial operators behind AI that reaches production, customers and revenue.
SEARCH FOCUS / 2026
One market. The whole value chain.
Research.
Build. Deploy.
Scale.
Build. Deploy.
Scale.
North AmericaUKEurope
25+years of search judgement
01senior partner from brief to close
AIour market—not another vertical
Chief AI Officers ↗VPs of AI & ML ↗Research Scientists ↗AI / ML Engineers ↗LLM Engineers ↗Applied AI Engineers ↗Forward Deployed Engineers ↗ML Platform Engineers ↗AI Product Leaders ↗Solutions Architects ↗AI Sales Leaders ↗Enterprise Account Executives ↗
01 / THE PROBLEM
Titles are cheap.
Evidence is rare.
Who built it? What shipped? Who adopted it? What moved because they were there? That is the brief behind the brief.
We search for proof—not proximity to AI, polished terminology or a fashionable title. Then we test whether that impact can be repeated in your environment.
Experience includes
Selected organisations supported across Rob's career in AI, automation and transformation.
PwCEYReveal GroupAshling PartnersWonderBotzSymphony VenturesTQA
What we find
Across the AI value chain.
From research to revenue.
These are role families, not limits. We build each search around the outcome you need—whether that means a first AI hire, a specialist technical team or the executive who will lead it all.
02✦
Discover
Research & Applied Science
Scientists who advance capability, turn research into advantage and know when an idea is ready to leave the lab.
Research ScientistApplied ScientistGenAI / NLP / CV
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Build
AI & ML Engineering
Engineers who turn models and novel approaches into evaluated, observable and scalable production systems.
AI / ML EngineerLLM EngineerMLOps / Platform
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Deploy
Forward Deployed & Solutions
Technical operators who can face the customer, solve the real problem and get AI working inside complex environments.
FDESolutions ArchitectAI Solutions
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Productise
Product, Data & Platform
The product and platform leaders who decide what should be built—and create the foundations needed to scale it.
AI ProductData LeadershipML Infrastructure
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Scale
Commercial & GTM
Commercial leaders who create the category, win technical buyers and build repeatable growth before a playbook exists.
GTM LeadershipEnterprise SalesPartnerships
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THE COST OF “CLOSE ENOUGH”
The wrong AI hire costs more than salary.
It costs momentum.
Builderswho ship beyond the demo
Leaderswho make the right technical bets
Translatorswho turn adoption into value
How we search
The best people are not applying.
They are building.
01 / Find the signal◎
Map the market others cannot see.
The strongest person is rarely sitting in an applicant queue. We identify the teams, products and technical environments producing the talent your brief actually needs.
02 / Earn attention✦
Give exceptional people a reason to listen.
Scarce AI talent gets approached constantly. We turn your mission, technical challenge and ambition into a story credible enough to cut through.
03 / Protect the hire✓
Keep judgement in the process.
We stay close from first conversation to signed offer—testing motivation, handling risk and making sure both sides are choosing for the right reasons.
Rob NovadnieksFounder · SeriousAbout AI
Why SeriousAbout AI
Twenty-five years of search.
None of it generic.
SeriousAbout AI is founder-led because the work is too important to hand down a chain.
Rob has built recruitment businesses, led teams and advised leadership groups across emerging technology, intelligent automation and AI in North America, the UK and Europe.
Every mandate gets direct senior attention, a sharply defined market and an honest conversation about what will—and will not—land the person you need.
The hire matters.
Who is missing?
Tell us what you are trying to build, where execution is getting stuck and the person you believe would change the trajectory.
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