Applied AI Director

EPAM Systems; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

ESPP

Private medical insurance

Dental care

Employee Assistance Program

Pension plan

Cycle schemes

Season ticket loans

On-site perks

Résumé du poste

EPAM Systems seeks an Applied AI Director who marries strategic thinking with entrepreneurial execution. This hands-on leadership role drives AI-powered value creation, builds world-class teams, and shapes go-to-market strategy.

You will mentor practitioners, lead presales, and scale AI capabilities across clients, with a hybrid UK-based model and occasional travel. You will work at the intersection of business, technology and AI to deliver measurable outcomes, leveraging cloud platforms and

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in generative AI and agentic systems, including large language models and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
• Proven experience deploying AI solutions into production with measurable value.
• Executive stakeholder management with senior, C-suite and board-level leaders.
• Commercial acumen across revenue, margin, utilization, opportunity development, and engagement growth.
• Transformation leadership mindset focused on reimagining business models through applied AI.
• Practical expertise in AI governance, responsible AI, agentic evaluation frameworks, and cost modelling.
• Knowledge of leading AI platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Responsabilités

• Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and board-level stakeholders on agentic transformation within your industry domain
• Define and drive AI strategies for clients, applying practical knowledge of generative AI and agentic systems to validate assumptions and guide decisions
• Conduct discovery and ideation to turn business challenges into AI opportunities with a clear path to value
• Drive enterprise AI adoption by identifying high-impact use cases and leading organizational change
• Lead cross-functional teams from concept through production and adoption
• Grow EPAM's Applied AI practice via talent development and market positioning
• Originate and convert enterprise opportunities with account and sales teams
• Track industry developments to shape client strategy and go-to-market initiatives
• Mentor consultants and client stakeholders to build AI capabilities

Connaissances

Generative AI

Agentic systems

Executive stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Transformation leadership

AI governance

Responsible AI

Conversations AI

Cost modelling

Outils

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Description du poste

We're looking for an Applied AI Director who thinks like a strategist, operates like an entrepreneur, and executes like a practitioner. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of business, technology, and AI. You will drive commercial growth, help reinventing how to create value, define, create and deliver AI-powered solutions, build world-class teams, and establish market leadership. This position offers a hybrid work setup with flexibility to work from UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany or Switzerland and occasional office visits required.

At EPAM, we help organizations move from AI experimentation to business transformation. We combine deep engineering expertise, AI innovation, and industry knowledge to help clients identify high-impact opportunities, shape AI-driven strategies, build production-ready solutions, and scale them across the enterprise to deliver measurable business results.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and board-level stakeholders on agentic transformation within your industry domain
• Define and drive AI strategies for clients, applying practical knowledge of generative AI and agentic systems to validate assumptions, challenge flawed thinking and guide business decisions
• Conduct discovery and ideation activities that transform complex business challenges into prioritized AI opportunities with a clear path to value
• Drive enterprise AI adoption by identifying high-impact use cases, quantifying business value and leading the organizational change needed for sustainable outcomes
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, data, design and business functions from concept through production and adoption
• Grow EPAM's Applied AI practice by contributing to talent development, commercial performance and market positioning
• Originate and convert enterprise opportunities by shaping engagements, building business cases and leading presales activities with account and sales teams
• Track industry, market and competitive developments to help shape client strategy and EPAM go-to-market initiatives
• Mentor consultants, specialists and client stakeholders while helping build AI capabilities across the practice

Requirements

• Industry SME : 5+ years' experience within 1 of Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Energy or Utilities, including responsibility for business performance, operating models or transformational initiatives
• Deep industry expertise with a strong understanding of business drivers, regulatory environments, unit economics and competitive dynamics within your sector
• Hands-on expertise in generative AI and agentic systems, including large language models, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, leading AI platforms and hyperscaler ecosystems such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Proven experience deploying AI solutions into production, with the ability to explain how solutions delivered value, where challenges emerged and how they were addressed
• Executive stakeholder management experience working with senior, C-suite and board-level leaders to drive AI adoption and large-scale organizational change
• Commercial acumen across revenue, margin, utilization, opportunity development, business case creation and engagement growth
• Transformation leadership mindset focused on reimagining business models, operating models and value creation through applied AI rather than incremental optimization
• Strong perspective on the role of agentic AI within your industry, including where AI can create competitive advantage and where human judgment remains critical
• Practical expertise in at least one specialty area, including AI governance and responsible AI, agentic evaluation frameworks, conversational AI, voice AI or token economics and cost modeling

Nice to have

• Experience deploying AI solutions in production environments
• Knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI or risk management frameworks
• Experience with conversational AI, voice technologies or multi-agent systems
• Familiarity with AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud AI services
• Experience contributing to thought leadership, market analysis or industry-focused go-to-market activities

We offer

• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Protection benefits including life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover
• Private medical insurance and dental care
• Employee Assistance Program
• Competitive group pension plan
• Cyclescheme, Techscheme and season ticket loans
• Various perks such as free Wednesday lunch in-office, on-site massages and regular social events
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program