Chief Technology Officer - AI

KNR Management Consultants; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

KNR Management Consultants seeks a Chief Technology Officer – AI to lead a global AI transformation. The role focuses on building production-grade AI agents that execute operational work, not just a chatbot layer, and scaling delivery across geographies with strong governance and commercial acumen.

Ideal candidates have strong backgrounds in CTO/Head of Platform roles within large services or transformation firms, and a track record of shipping enterprise AI/LLM-based systems with real business

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping AI/LLM-based systems into production with operational and financial impact.
• Experience leading large engineering teams across geographies and time zones.
• Strong grip on data residency, security, auditability and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI transformation journey and build production-grade AI agents that execute operational work.
• Scale AI/agentic operations across geographies and time zones, re-skilling teams for AI-native work.

Skills

AI leadership

Production AI systems

Global team leadership

Data security governance

Commercial pricing

ERP/model-agnostic

Job description

We are looking for a \"Chief Technology Officer – AI\" to lead the AI transformation journey of a rapidly scaling, global technology & transformation organization.

Experience: 20+ Years

We are looking for a senior technology leader to build and scale their AI/agentic operations engine, not a chatbot layer, but production-grade AI agents that actually execute operational work.

Candidates working in US-renowned AI and Large Language Model (LLM) organisations, AI Transformation Leads in large Tech Service organisations, will be given preference.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience shipping AI/LLM- based systems into production with real operational and financial stakes
• Background as CTO/Chief AI Officer/Head of Platform & Delivery Technology at a large services, BPM, or transformation firm (or equivalent built inside a large product company)
• Experience running large engineering/delivery teams across geographies and time zones, including re-skilling talent for AI-native ways of working
• Strong grip on enterprise requirements: data residency, security, auditability, change management
• Commercial fluency, able to price the offering and engage confidently with client CXOs
• Comfortable operating in an ERP-agnostic, model-agnostic environment