Applied AI Lead

Vacancy No

VN433

Status

Active

Location

Remote US

Location Country

United States

Location Region

Location City

Description

Who are we? ATG is leading the transformation of the multi-billion dollar global auction industry. The company has grown rapidly over the last 7 years, to over $170m of revenue and over $80m of profits today. The company IPO’d in 2021 and has had a successful run both during the Covid period and after. ATG is early in our journey to establish a hugely influential global internet company that is revolutionizing one of the last industries in the world yet to move significantly online.

What do we do?

ATG connects thousands of auction houses, listing millions of items worth over $15 billion annually (and growing!), to buyers in over 170 countries around the world. These buyers generate over 100 million bids a year for our sellers, helping them achieve maximum value for the goods they sell. We help auctioneers sell everything from medieval swords to combine harvesters, paintings and decorative art through to classic cars, furniture, and Caterpillar forklifts. We do this through 8 marketplaces that leverage our online auction technologies. We make auctioneers more efficient, we make small companies big by bringing them access to millions of bidders they could never find on their own, and we bring them technology they could never afford alone. We bring bidders choice of unique and specialized items, convenience, and trust. And we do it all in a shared success model that accelerates growth of the circular economy and sustainable buying. With ATG, our buyers and sellers win but so too does the planet! We have ethical ambition and it’s something our employees value and is a key part of who we are….as well as being a high growth marketplace company with excellent competitive positioning!

Where are we now?

ATG achieved “first mover advantage” in each of the sectors we serve. As such, we have benefited from incredible network effects meaning that as we brought the most sellers, we attracted more buyers and as we brought more buyers, we then organically attracted more sellers. This symbiotic relationship has been pivotal to our profitable growth.

ATG established a vision that has 3 big strategic phases for how we will lead the transformation of the auction industry.

Phase 1 was assembling the critical mass of marketplaces and technologies that would serve as the foundation on which we would build. It enabled us to capitalize on the network effects and set ourselves apart from competitors.

We are now in Phase 2. Here, we are building out eCommerce basics, following the well-trodden path of online marketplace development-improved UI and UX, implementing best practice conversion funnel actions, improving trust, adding payment and shipping options, and much more. The goal is: Maximize Quality Bidders. On the seller side, we are focused on creating a one-stop-shop for auctioneers where they can get access to auction marketplaces where they find the best bidders, interconnectivity to enable them to rapidly reach the bidders on ANY of our marketplaces, digital marketing services, shipping services to improve their efficiency and customer experiences and payments to complete the fulfilment.

Phase 3 entails transformative ways to use these services to bring even more value to auctioneers and bidders alike. We can go into that if you progress through the interview process!

Who are we looking for?

As our Applied AI Lead, you’ll be the person who makes AI real at ATG — not as a strategy deck, but as working tools people use every day. This is a senior individual contributor role: you’ll build alongside the team, and you’ll set the standards, governance, and direction for how the organization builds and adopts AI.

Roughly half your time is hands-on delivery. You’ll size opportunities, design future-state flows, document requirements, build solutions using AI-assisted development tools, and deploy them across Operations, Finance, and HR. This matters to us: you can’t set credible standards for AI-built systems if you aren’t living under them yourself.

The other half is scope only you will carry. You’ll define how these systems are governed — who can build what, how tools are reviewed, who owns them after launch, and how we retire what no longer earns its place. You’ll partner with Legal and IT on …