Est. 2001·3,000+ placements · six offices · four regions

Capability

AI Engineering Leadership

Executive search for the engineering leadership behind AI products: heads of engineering, platform and ML leaders for companies building AI into what they ship.

What the record shows

  • MitchelLake's delivered record holds 12 ai engineering leadership mandates, 2015–2024.
  • 8 of those 12 were delivered in Oceania.
  • They span 12 client organisations, each with its own engagement record page.
  • 1,611 of the 19,130 market signals in the live window (2026-03-20 to 2026-10-19) carry an AI marker — 8%.
  • Product launch is the largest AI signal type in that window at 1,331.
  • Americas carries the largest share of AI signal flow at 774 signals (48%).

Figures are computed from the delivered engagement record and the live signal corpus at build time, not written.

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