Production AI, not experimentation
We focus on live AI systems that customers depend on, not research, prototypes, demos, or AI that sits outside the product's core value.
We Place Engineers and
Technical Leaders
who make production AI work
for AI‑native vendors serving
regulated financial institutions.
We focus on the people accountable for production AI when it has to work under real customer, security, reliability, governance, and regulatory constraints. That includes engineers with direct technical ownership and technical leaders accountable for the teams, systems, and decisions behind those outcomes.
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What We Focus On
Engineers and technical leaders with real accountability
Our searches can span individual contributors who directly own production systems and technical leaders responsible for the organizations, platforms, and technical decisions behind those outcomes.
Built around regulated financial institutions
We work with AI-native vendors serving banks, insurers, and other regulated financial institutions where security, governance, auditability, reliability, and controlled change materially shape how products are built and operated.
Accountability over titles
We focus on what someone has actually been responsible for in production, not whether their title happens to say AI, ML, Platform, Forward Deployed, VP Engineering, or something else.
Specialist Search
Production AI Engineers and Technical Leaders
We recruit individual contributors and technical leaders accountable for production AI outcomes at AI-native vendors serving regulated financial institutions.
Production AI Engineers
Engineers with direct technical accountability for production AI systems, including the work required to design, deploy, operate, secure, govern, or remediate those systems in regulated environments.
Explore engineering searchTechnical Leaders
Technical leaders with substantive engineering foundations and real authority over the teams, systems, and decisions responsible for production AI outcomes.
Explore technical leadership searchWho We Work With
Jane Michael works with AI-native vendors whose products depend on production AI and serve regulated financial institutions as core customers.
AI is central to the product
The product depends on AI to deliver its primary value. If AI is removed or materially degraded, customer outcomes materially change.
AI is operating in production
The systems are live, monitored, measured, and operated continuously, not limited to research, pilots, or prototypes.
Your company owns the production outcome
Responsibility for AI behavior, deployment, reliability, incidents, and ongoing improvement remains within the company.
Regulated institutions shape the product
Banks, insurers, and other regulated financial institutions are core customers whose requirements materially affect how the product is built and operated.
Out of Scope
We stay deliberately narrow. Jane Michael does not focus on:
- Research-only, exploratory, prototype, pilot, or demo-stage AI work.
- AI limited to analytics, dashboards, internal tooling, or convenience features.
- Roles adjacent to production AI without material technical accountability for production outcomes.
- Consumer-first, prosumer, or lightly regulated products.
- Companies where regulated financial institutions are incidental rather than core customers.
- Companies where AI is not critical to the product's primary value.
How It Works
1
Define the Search
We clarify the production outcome, technical scope, accountability, and regulated constraints the hire needs to carry.
2
Map the Market
We build the search around demonstrated responsibility and relevant operating experience, not title matches alone.
3
Assess the Evidence
We look for concrete evidence of production ownership, decision authority, failure handling, and experience under the constraints relevant to the role.
4
Build a Focused Shortlist
You receive a focused slate with a clear rationale for why each person matches the search.
5
Support the Process
We stay engaged through interviews, feedback, offer, and acceptance.
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