Black Piano is a UK-headquartered staffing business, set up in 2020 by Jonathan McElhatton and Abhishek Maurya. We help ambitious small-medium sized businesses around the world to build effective remote teams in India.
We are growing quickly as more and more businesses embrace remote working and are experiencing increased cost pressure from rising salary expectations and tax burdens in countries like the UK. Our India-based internal team source, screen, hire, onboard and manage all HR processes for around 100 Indian staff, which we expect to rise to around 200 staff in the next six months. Our UK team manages all sales, marketing and account management activity.
But the world is changing, fast. AI is both opportunity and threat to our business. Today, we are a 100% human-resource staffing business. Tomorrow, we want to be something more. We believe the best services companies of the next decade will combine excellent people with excellent AI — and we want Black Piano to be one of them. We have built a strategy.
We need someone to take this forward and lead in implementation.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Most companies will spend the next year talking about AI. We want to spend it shipping.
This role has two halves, and they reinforce each other.
Half one — help us build what we sell next. You will partner with the CEO to evolve Black Piano's proposition from 100% human staffing to a
portfolio that includes AI-augmented and AI-native services.
Think hybrid human-plus-AI delivery teams, agentic services that clients can buy directly, and entirely current offerings we have not built yet. The work you do internally becomes the proof, the playbook, and in many cases the product.
Half two — transform how we run. You will own the internal AI roadmap end-to-end. Recruitment, finance, HR, sales, marketing, operations — every function is in scope. You will pick the highest-leverage problems, design the agents and workflows that solve them, ship them into production, and
📌 Lead AI Engineer (India)
🏢 Black Piano
📍 India
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