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Safari AI is seeking a UK & Ireland Country Head to establish and scale the company's regional operations. Safari AI uses computer vision AI to measure, alert, and provide AI-generated recommendations for leading enterprises in entertainment, live venues, quick-service restaurants, retail, and beyond. The company is venture-backed, headquartered in Miami with engineering in Vancouver, and founded by Ali Vahabzadeh (experienced operator with prior exits).
As Country Head, you will be the first Safari AI leader on the ground in the UK & Ireland region, reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with Go To Market and Engineering teams across time zones. You will own the regional P&L and growth end-to-end, including setting go-to-market strategy, revenue targets, and budgets with the CEO.
Key responsibilities include: building and closing a pipeline of enterprise clients across attractions, live venues, sports, retail, QSR, and hospitality; serving as the senior point of contact for UK & Ireland clients, leading quarterly business reviews, and proving ROI; building relationships with camera, systems integrator, technology, and channel partners; hiring, leading, and developing the local team (sales, client success, deployment) as the region scales; coordinating deployments with engineering and managing local contracting, data protection (UK GDPR/EU GDPR), and procurement; and representing Safari AI at industry events while bringing market insights into product and company strategy.
You will work with a small, high-performing team in an early-stage startup environment with significant autonomy and the opportunity to invent a new market.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Mandatory: Track record of owning commercial results in the UK & Ireland as a country manager, general manager, or senior enterprise sales, account, client, or client success leader
- Mandatory: Ability to point to specific value created and demonstrate how you calculated ROI for clients
- Established network among enterprise operators in the UK & Ireland (attractions, venues, sports, retail, hospitality, or similar)
- AI-first mindset: currently using relevant AI tools to leverage time and multiply effectiveness
- Fast technical learner: eager to learn about new technologies and their application to legacy industries
- Experience crafting, soliciting, and communicating ROI, payback periods, and other financial performance metrics
- Proven ability and willingness to serve clients across multiple industries, not just one vertical
- Comfortable being the first employee in a new region and working across time zones with US-based leadership
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to travel across the UK & Ireland and occasionally to the US for executive and board meetings
- Experience building and managing a team strongly preferred
