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AI & Technology Solutions Lead

B Futurist moves quickly on technology. We work with external partners to improve how we operate, we are putting AI to work across the business, and we are now building the technical capability to lead that work ourselves rather than only buy it in.

This is a new role. You would own the technology we build and buy outside our ERP, and make sure the company becomes genuinely good at using AI. You set the technical direction, and the shape of the role is partly yours to define.

At a glance

• Your focus: The technology we build and buy outside our ERP, and how the company uses AI.
• Current stack: Google Workspace, Slack, Odoo and Claude.
• Reports to: Business Operations Team Leader.
• Hybrid: One day working from home per week. Fully remote possible for candidates based outside the Netherlands.
• Shape of the role: roughly a quarter hands-on building, half leading the technical side of partner projects, a quarter enabling the teams.

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AI & Technology Solutions Lead

Capelle aan den Ijssel,

Netherlands

As an employee of our company, you will collaborate with each department

to create and deploy disruptive products. Come work at a growing company

that offers great benefits with opportunities to moving forward and learn

alongside accomplished leaders. We're seeking an experienced and outstanding

member of staff.

This position is both creative and rigorous by nature you need to think

outside the box. We expect the candidate to be proactive and have a "get it done"

spirit. To be successful, you will have solid solving problem skills.

Customer Relationship

Personal Evolution

Autonomy

Administrative Work

Technical Expertise

Responsibilities

• Lead the entire sales cycle
• Achieve monthly sales objectives
• Qualify the customer needs
• Negotiate and contract
• Master demos of our software

Must Have

• Bachelor Degree or Higher
• Passion for software products
• Perfect written English
• Highly creative and autonomous
• Valid work permit for Belgium

Nice to have

• Experience in writing online content
• Additional languages
• Google Adwords experience
• Strong analytical skills

What's great in the job?

• Great team of smart people, in a friendly and open culture
• No dumb managers, no stupid tools to use, no rigid working hours
• No waste of time in enterprise processes, real responsibilities and autonomy
• Expand your knowledge of various business industries
• Create content that will help our users on a daily basis
• Real responsibilities and challenges in a fast evolving company

Our Product

Discover our products.

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What We Offer

Each employee has a chance to see the impact of his work.

You can make a real contribution to the success of the company.

Several activities are often organized all over the year, such as weekly

sports sessions, team building events, monthly drink, and much more

Perks

A full-time position

Attractive salary package.

Trainings

12 days / year, including

6 of your choice.

Sport Activity

Play any sport with colleagues,

the bill is covered.

Eat & Drink

Fruit, coffee and

snacks provided.

About B. Futurist B.V.

B Futurist moves beauty products from markets that have too much to markets that need them, across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Around 70 people, 33 nationalities, profitable, and growing fast. We’re at the interesting part of the climb: turning

quick wins

into long-term retail relationships.

We are founder-led, direct, and intentionally unbureaucratic. No politics, no unnecessary layers, just ownership and execution.

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Your Role

What you will actually do

• Lead the technical side of partner projects. We build with external partners outside our ERP. You would own our side: shaping what the solution needs to be, reviewing the architecture and the code that comes back, and holding delivery to what was agreed. This is the largest part of the job.
• Bring a critical eye to AI in our ERP. Our Odoo partner runs AI projects inside the system. You would not necessarily write that code, but you would understand the technology well enough to challenge the approach, the data handling and the cost.
• Build small applications that make daily work easier. Internal tools, automations and agents around Odoo, Google Workspace and Slack, working closely with the Odoo Developer. Some you build yourself; some you specify and have someone else build. You decide which is which.
• Decide what we build and what we buy. Technical due diligence on the software we are considering — what is underneath it, what it will cost us over time, and whether building it would serve us better.
• Set how we use AI. You would define the framework: what is allowed, what data can go where, and what gets reviewed before it touches real money or real customers.
• Turn local experiments into something dependable. Colleagues across the company are already experimenting with AI. You would take the good ideas and make them robust, secure and reusable.
• Enable the teams. Around seventy colleagues are learning to work with AI. Helping them do it well is part of the job, not an afterthought.
• Get close to the work. Sit with colleagues in Trading, Supply Chain, Finance, People & Culture and Operations. Follow the handovers, question the workarounds, and agree where an improvement will make a real difference.
• Stay with what you ship. Deploy, monitor, improve and document. Measure the change in manual work, errors and adoption.

Your First Months

Understand our systems and how work actually moves through them. Propose the first priorities, and deliver one focused improvement with Business Operations. Take technical ownership of a project already running with an external partner. Use what you learn to shape where we go next. The direction is genuinely yours to propose.

What You Bring

• A software engineer first. A strong backend or full-stack background, with applications you personally built, deployed and supported. You would still be hireable as a developer if AI did not exist.
• Strong Python or TypeScript, SQL, API and authentication skills, and practical experience with cloud deployment, Git, automated testing and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience delivering LLM applications with Claude or comparable models: tool calling, retrieval, evaluation, data privacy and reliable operation.
• You have connected systems that were never built to talk to each other. Experience with Google Workspace, Slack or Odoo integrations is a plus, as is experience with agent development frameworks such as Google ADK or the Claude SDK.
• You have run a build with an external partner and held them to it: scope, architecture and cost, not only delivery dates.
• Senior enough to tell a supplier no, and to explain why. This is the part of the role we cannot compromise on.
• You can teach without making people feel stupid, and explain a technical decision in clear English to people who are not technical.
• The judgement to turn an incomplete request into a sensible scope, choose the straightforward solution, and explain your reasoning.

How You'll Grow

How We Work

You set the technical direction for everything we build and buy outside our ERP. Inside the ERP, our specialist partner holds the final technical call. Your job there is to challenge the approach, test what comes back and make sure we are getting the right thing. Priorities, budget and trade-offs are agreed with the Team Leader, who is accountable for the team's results.

You will work directly with the external partners who build for us, their architects and their developers. They work to a professional engineering standard, and you need to be at a level where they take your review seriously.

Expect direct feedback and changing needs. We value people who experiment, involve colleagues and stay accountable for the outcome. Good ideas can come from anyone.

The Honest Version

Is this the right role for you?

It suits someone who likes owning a problem end to end and does not need a team around them to do it.

It is a broad role rather than a specialist one. If you want to work on models and research, you would be underused here.

It is a builder’s role before it is an AI role. Reviewing what a partner delivers, and shipping software that has to keep working, both need real engineering behind them.

What you get

• Work worth putting on your CV. Technical ownership of a live build with an external partner. Internal AI applications taken from idea to everyday use. An AI framework you design for a company of seventy. Named projects, not maintenance.
• Real technical authority. You own the technical decisions, not only the recommendations.
• A role you define. This is the first time we are bringing this capability in-house, and the first months are partly yours to shape.
• Annual bonus plan. Participation in our annual bonus plan.
• Time off. 25 days of annual leave, plus your birthday off.
• Pension. Pension premiums fully paid by B Futurist.
• Lunch. Subsidised warm lunches at the office, prepared by our in-house chef.
• Stay active. Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership.
• Your commute. Travel reimbursement.
• Keep developing. Learning and development support, including a budget to agree for your role.
• Friday drinks. Time to catch up with colleagues beyond the day’s work.
• Celebrate together. Team activities and a company Christmas party.
• Visa support. We are a recognised Kennismigrant sponsor; sponsorship options can be discussed during the hiring process.
• And Punk. Our office dog is very much part of the team.
• Close to the business. Room to take ownership, work closely with the founder and colleagues across teams, and see your ideas become part of how we operate.

Hiring Process

Our hiring process has three stages, each lasting up to one hour. We start with a conversation with HR and our Business Operations Team Leader about your experience, something you personally built and the decisions behind it. Next is a technical session where you explain a technical topic to a non-technical audience and discuss your reasoning. We finish with a conversation with the founders about the role, working together and mutual expectations.

Send Us Your Application

Are you excited about a job? Go ahead and share your updated resume & cover letter. Remember to include any relevant documents or portfolios to make your application shine!

First Round with HR

If compatibility is apparent, we'll invite you to an online conversation with our HR team. This will be an opportunity for us to get to know you better, share more about our company, and dive deeper into your experiences. It's also a chance for you to learn more about the role and see if it's a great fit for you!

Interview

You'll meet with your potential line manager and other key internal stakeholders. This interview will delve into more technical aspects of the position. We're interested in learning about your career goals and how they align with the position we're offering.

Additional Round and Case Study

You'll be invited to a potential third round of interview depending on your role and department. And, for certain roles, you will be invited for a case study (E.g. Wholesale Department). We're excited to hear your vision and ideas on how you can contribute to achieving outstanding results!

Congratulations! You've Got The Job!

We are delighted to announce your success! Your alignment with the company has truly impressed us. Shortly, we will furnish you with the essential documentation and onboarding information. Welcome to the team, and get ready for an exciting journey with us!

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