Helsinki (Hybrid) · Full-time, Permanent

You've already built expertise in AI, digital transformation, or IT consulting. You're probably very good at what you do. But somewhere along the way, you started wondering whether you'll ever own it. This role exists because Gapps' AI and Automation business has grown faster than the leadership structure around it. Customer demand is real and validated. The team has sharp people. What's missing is someone who takes the whole thing and runs with it.

The role at a glance

✅ What you'll do: Take full ownership of Gapps' AI and Automation business unit, leading the team day-to-day, owning the P&L, and driving the business toward a €3M revenue target over the next 12 months.

✅ Where: Hybrid and flexible. Work from Gapps’ Helsinki HQ in Kalasatama or remotely from anywhere in Finland.

✅ Team: You report directly to Vesa Sironen (CEO). Your immediate team includes Lauri, Elmo, and a few hires who will join later this year.

✅ Compensation: Base salary €7,000–8,500 / month, annual bonus tied to EBITDA as part of the leadership team model, plus options.

Why not apply? This role asks you to build the structure while running the business. If you need a fully built framework to operate within, or if AI for you is more about the technology than the business problem it solves, this is probably not the right fit.

Why Gapps is your next move

Maybe you’re in a large consultancy right now, delivering AI projects that someone else defined, for targets someone else set, within boundaries someone else drew. The work is interesting enough. The clients are real. But you’re executing a vision, not building one, and the gap between what you could own and what you’re allowed to own keeps staying the same size, no matter how well you perform.

Or maybe you’re already technically close to a leadership role. You’ve been the one holding things together, making the calls, keeping the team focused, and yet the organizational chart tells a different story.

At Gapps, you’d walk into a different situation. The AI and Automation business already has validated customer demand, a significant anchor client, and a technically strong team in Lauri and Elmo. What it needs is someone who takes full ownership of where it goes from here, with a clear €3M P&L target over twelve months. The structure is not handed to you pre-built, because the opportunity is in building it.

The €3M target is ambitious. It’s also the clearest possible signal that this is a real business with real expectations. You’ll operate as part of the Gapps leadership team, with a manager who gives you direction and then gets out of your way, and a team with the depth to do serious work once someone is clearly steering.

What the role involves

You’ll lead the AI and Automation business unit at Gapps on a day-to-day basis. That means owning the team’s direction, the client relationships, and the revenue outcome, all at once.

Your mission

• People leadership: Lead Lauri, Elmo, and the new consultant starting in August in their daily work, act as their direct manager, and recruit the next people as the business grows.

• P&L ownership: Carry full financial responsibility for the AI and Automation business. Follow the numbers, report on them, and make decisions based on them.

• Key account leadership: Own the strategic relationship with the anchor customer, deepening it into a long-term partnership and bringing the frameworks built there into new customer relationships over time.

• Productization: Build scalable AI service models that work across multiple clients rather than one-off custom builds.

• Internal AI development: Together with Katja, lead Gapps’ own AI development and look at how AI can improve internal processes and operations.

A typical week

There’s no single template for a day in this role, and that’s intentional. Some days you’ll be in a customer workshop, helping a client understand where they are on their AI journey and what a realistic next step looks like. Other days, you’ll be in planning conversations with Lauri and Elmo, working through priorities and ensuring the team’s capacity aligns with what matters most. You’ll have regular touchpoints with Vesa on business direction, and you’ll spend time on pipeline development alongside the sales hire as new customer relationships develop. Expect a mix of strategic thinking, hands-on client work in the earlier months, and ongoing team leadership throughout.

Stakeholders

• Lauri and Elmo on the AI and Automation team, your closest day-to-day collaborators.

• The incoming sales hire, as you build out the go-to-market side together.

• Vesa (CEO), your manager, with whom you align on business direction, budget, and overall priorities.

• Katja Järveläinen (Head of People & Culture), your partner for internal AI development and anything related to HR and team structure.

• Customer stakeholders, particularly within the anchor account, where you’ll spend meaningful time, especially in the first months.

Read here what Lauri has to say about building the AI & Automation team at Gapps.

Goals & metrics

• 30 days: Understand the team’s current state, the anchor customer’s situation, Gapps’ AI offering, and the real priorities.

• 90 days: You’ve taken over daily team leadership, built trust with Lauri and Elmo, strengthened the anchor customer relationship, and have a clear plan for closing the team’s capability gaps.

• 12 months: The AI and Automation business is at or on track to reach €3M in revenue; the team is working well with the right people in the right roles; and the offering has been productized sufficiently that the team’s work scales across multiple clients simultaneously.

About Gapps

Gapps is a leading Finnish digital workplace company helping organizations work smarter with cloud-based tools. Since 2010, we’ve helped hundreds of companies adopt Google solutions that boost collaboration, productivity, and culture.

Gapps built its reputation on Google Workspace and Google Cloud implementation work, and that foundation remains strong. But the business is evolving from project-based delivery toward productized services, managed services, and AI-driven solutions that create recurring revenue and long-term customer partnerships. The AI and Automation unit, which this role leads, sits right at the center of that shift.

Gapps is small enough that your work is visible and your decisions have direct consequences for customers and for the business. The team is made up of certified cloud and security architects and AI specialists who take their craft seriously, and the culture reflects that: high professional standards, low hierarchy, and genuine autonomy over how you do your work. What you will find is a group of capable people who trust each other to get things done, a leadership team that communicates clearly about where the company is going, and an environment where the next thing being built is something you’ll have a real hand in shaping.

Benefits & practicals

• Salary: Base salary 7,000–8,500€/month plus annual bonus as part of the Gapps leadership team model, tied to EBITDA and paid out in February or March, and options.

• Location: The role is hybrid and permanent. You can split your time between Gapps’ Helsinki HQ in Kalasatama and remote work from anywhere in Finland, based on what works best for you and the team. The Kalasatama office has ergonomic workstations, quiet focus spaces, a gym, and snacks. If you work primarily remotely, Gapps will provide the tools and support to set up a proper home workstation.

• Health and wellbeing: Extensive occupational healthcare, comprehensive insurance, and a benefits package covering both physical and mental health. The specifics will be walked through during the process.

• Professional growth: Access to Google certifications and support for other professional development that makes sense for the role. Dedicated time for studying and developing your expertise is built into your working time.

How to apply

Interested? Awesome. Before we go further, here’s an honest summary of what this role requires. You don’t need to tick every box, but these are the things that matter most.

Top 5 must-haves

1. Business leadership experience: You’ve held P&L responsibility or led a team with real business accountability before. This is not your first time owning outcomes.

2. AI understanding grounded in business: You know how AI applies to real business problems, you can tell a client what’s realistic and what isn’t, and you can lead a technical team without needing to be the most technical person in the room.

3. Experience leading senior experts: You’ve managed highly skilled domain experts and earned their trust through clarity and direction, not micromanagement.

4. Customer-facing credibility: You’re comfortable serving as the senior person in client relationships, including with business leadership and C-level stakeholders.

5. Excellent Finnish and strong English are required for the role. This is non-negotiable.

Send your application

• Apply before 15.07.2026. Tell us who you are, what you've built, and why this role makes sense for you right now.

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we might have initial discussions in June & July, but the process will proceed more actively after the team returns from summer holidays in August.

• Questions? Reach out to Saara Salonen at TalentBee (saara@talentbee.io).

What the process looks like

1. Intro call with Saara: a first conversation to understand your background and answer your questions.

2. Substance interview with Vesa and Lauri: going deeper into your experience, your understanding of AI in a business context, and your thinking about leadership.

3. Case or team discussion: exploring your thinking and business judgment, either through an internal case or a real customer scenario.

4. Culture and fit conversation with Katja and Tuomas: focused on working style, values, and how you’d operate within the Gapps team

5. Final conversation & Offer

We'll keep you informed at every stage. If you're not moving forward, we'll tell you directly and explain why.

About Gapps

Gapps is a Helsinki-born digital transformation and cloud consultancy that has spent 15 years helping Finnish and Nordic organizations get real value from Google Cloud and the technologies built around it. Founded in 2010, the company has grown into a multi-million euro business, earned Google Cloud Country Partner of the Year for Finland, and built a team of specialists across cloud infrastructure, AI, managed services, digital workplace, and security. In 2026, Vesa Sironen returned as CEO to lead the next chapter, building Gapps into Finland’s most trusted partner for AI and cloud services. If that is a direction you want to help shape, this is a good time to join.