The Director of AI Advisory engages clients with prescriptive AI solutions, assesses readiness, designs governance frameworks, and leads strategic discussions while mentoring the delivery team.
- Role Overview
This role is integral in attracting and engaging clients through prescriptive solutions and consultative selling that enable clients to launch their AI program. You work with clients throughout the engagement lifecycle to help define their strategy, ensure that the execution is aligned with that strategy and finally measure the impact of our intervention.
- About You
You are a subject matter expert in AI - responsible for fulfilling client’s expectations and internally supporting our team with building solutions that can solve meaningful problems. You have a comprehensive understanding of AI strategy, governance, roadmapping, technology stacks and org structures across a multitude of industries. You are a leader by nature and a great communicator with the ability to run workshops and build consensus within client stakeholders on their goals and priorities.
- Primary Responsibilities
Advisory
- Assess clients’ data estate, processes, team structure and technologies to identify AI readiness
- Design and advise on data architecture frameworks, toolsets, change management strategies and operating models
- Support and occasionally drive AI technology evaluations to identify the best fit for a client
- Define and operationalize data and AI governance frameworks, including regulatory framework exposure
- Identify use cases that deliver ROI through workshops as well as proactive recommendations and create roadmaps
- Participate in presales, discovery and QBR settings with customers to drive these initiatives
- Internally, shape capabilities to support you on these advisory initiatives
- Be a subject matter expert to define solutions that A360 can build and take to market
- Coach and mentor our delivery team on subject matter, actively maintaining a knowledge knowledge repository
- Expand knowledge and capabilities into other industries, other facets of AI
- Ability to be a great leader & teammate by motivating people and ensure accountability and successful results
Go To Market
- Work with our CoI to create advisory offerings that are compelling to clients and can lay the foundation for future project engagements
- Work with marketing to develop sales collateral for advisory offerings
- Create thought leadership content on A360 and public forums that demonstrate your expertise
- Lead in depth business / functional strategic discussions with our clients
- Ideal Qualifications
- 5+ years leading external, client-facing consulting engagements, at least 2 of which are in AI advisory
- Hands on fluency with the modern data/AI stack
- Working knowledge of AI/ML architectures, RAG, agentic systems, feature stores and model serving
- Demonstrated breadth of knowledge of the AI technology landscape
- Experience with LLM deployment, multi-agent orchestration frameworks
- Industry experience in banking, mortgage, insurance, retail and sports & entertainment
- Experience running workshops with CXOs in client organizations
- Experience in technology projects using Agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle is a plus
- Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and integrate business processes across disparate systems
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