Public Sector Lead, Central Government

What you'll do

• Own our commercial plan and pipeline for UK civilian central government
• Find, shape, and close deals yourself, from the first conversation through to contract and into delivery
• Use the relationships you already have across departments like HMRC, DWP, and NHS
• Work the frameworks, tenders and teaming, and know which route to market is worth the effort and which isn't.
• Be a credible counterpart to senior civil servants, and turn what they need into work we can deliver
• Stay close to our product and delivery teams so what we sell is what we build
• Hire and lead a small team over time, and help shape the wider UK public sector plan with the UK Public Sector Lead

What we're looking for

• You've sold and delivered technology or transformation work to UK civilian central government, either from a vendor or from inside government
• You know at least one major department well (e.g. HMRC, DWP, or NHS) and how it buys
• You understand public sector procurement: frameworks, tenders, and buying that runs through a lot of stakeholders
• You've opened doors, run complex pursuits, and owned the result
• You have relationships with senior people across departments
• You do your best work when things are ambiguous and moving quickly

People who tend to fit this have spent years leading UK public sector work at companies like Palantir, Google, AWS, Microsoft or Oracle, at consultancies and systems integrators like Accenture, Deloitte, EY, Bain or McKinsey, or in senior commercial or programme roles inside the departments themselves.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or data-heavy platforms
• Regulated, mission-critical government programmes
• You've built or run a small go to market team before

Why join

You'd be building this market, not maintaining it. There's no playbook to inherit, which is rather the point. The deals you win, and the way you win them, will shape how Scale works with UK government for years.

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst& Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

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