Practice Head - Artificial Intelligence

Flexsin; Lucknow; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexsin is seeking an AI Practice Head to lead the transformation into an AI-first digital engineering company. You will set AI vision, governance, and adoption across software engineering, delivery, operations, and sales, while driving monetization through AI offerings and accelerators.

The role requires strategic leadership, hands-on AI expertise, and the ability to build a high-performing AI organization across 100+ client engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Data Science, or related field.
• MBA or business management qualification will be an advantage.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, digital transformation, consulting, or technology leadership.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, or Intelligent Automation.
• Proven experience leading engineering, delivery, or technology consulting teams.
• Strong experience in creating service offerings, practice building, and revenue generation.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, RAG, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, and AI Automation.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Flexsin's AI vision, roadmap, governance, and adoption framework.
• Drive the company's transformation into an AI-first organization.
• Establish AI policies, best practices, security, compliance, and ethical AI standards.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks.
• Define AI usage standards for developers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, BAs, and project managers.
• Establish best practices for AI-assisted coding, testing, documentation, code reviews, and DevOps automation.
• Standardize usage of AI development platforms.
• Create AI-driven delivery playbooks and productivity frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across HR, Finance, Administration, Sales, Customer Success, and Leadership functions.
• Implement AI solutions to improve operational efficiency, reporting, analytics, forecasting, and decision-making.
• Develop internal AI assistants and automation workflows for business functions.
• Define AI adoption strategies for SEO, GEO, content marketing, social media, paid campaigns, and lead generation.
• Create AI-powered workflows for content creation, keyword research, campaign management, audience targeting, and marketing analytics.
• Improve digital marketing productivity, personalization, and performance through AI initiatives.
• Develop AI assessment, consulting, implementation, and managed services offerings.
• Identify AI opportunities across Flexsin's existing client base and new prospects.
• Lead AI discovery workshops, readiness assessments, use-case identification, PoCs, and implementation strategies.
• Support presales, solution consulting, proposal creation, and client presentations related to AI initiatives.
• Identify market opportunities for AI-powered products and platforms.
• Lead the design and development of reusable AI accelerators, frameworks, and industry solutions.
• Drive innovation around AI agents, knowledge assistants, estimation tools, proposal automation, CRM intelligence, and other proprietary offerings.
• Create revenue-generating AI products aligned with Flexsin's service portfolio.
• Establish and lead Flexsin's AI Center of Excellence.
• Create AI training, certification, and upskilling programs for employees.
• Build and mentor a team of AI architects, AI engineers, prompt engineers, data scientists, and AI product specialists.
• Promote a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Build AI-related revenue growth and account expansion opportunities.
• Develop strategic partnerships with AI technology vendors and platforms.
• Define KPIs and measure business impact from AI investments and initiatives.

Skills

AI strategy

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Business acumen

Generative AI

LLMs

Project leadership

Cloud platforms

OpenAI ecosystem

AI automation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/AI/Data Science

MBA advantageous

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic Claude

Google Gemini

Azure AI

AWS AI/Bedrock

Microsoft Copilot

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

MCP ecosystems

Job description

Practice Head - Artificial Intelligence

Bringing the brightest minds to collaborate and drive mutual success.

Flexsin is looking for a strategic and execution-oriented AI Practice Head to lead the organization's transformation into an AI-First Digital Engineering Company. The role will be responsible for defining AI adoption strategies across software engineering, project delivery, operations, management, sales, marketing, and customer engagements.

The AI Practice Head will establish AI governance, create AI-driven service offerings, identify monetization opportunities, build AI-powered products and accelerators, and drive AI adoption across all departments. The role will also be responsible for helping Flexsin's 100+ active clients leverage AI for business growth, operational efficiency, customer experience, and digital transformation.

The ideal candidate will combine strong technology leadership, business acumen, innovation mindset, and hands-on AI expertise to position Flexsin as a leading AI, digital engineering, and consulting partner.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute Flexsin's AI vision, roadmap, governance, and adoption framework.
• Drive the company's transformation into an AIfirst organization.
• Establish AI policies, best practices, security, compliance, and ethical AI standards.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies, platforms, and frameworks.

AI POWERED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING:

• Define AI usage standards for developers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, BAs, and project managers.
• Establish best practices for AIassisted coding, testing, documentation, code reviews, and DevOps automation.
• Standardize usage of tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI development platforms.
• Create AIdriven delivery playbooks and productivity frameworks.

AI DRIVEN OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT:

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across HR, Finance, Administration, Sales, Customer Success, and Leadership functions.
• Implement AI solutions to improve operational efficiency, reporting, analytics, forecasting, and decisionmaking.
• Develop internal AI assistants and automation workflows for business functions.
• Define AI adoption strategies for SEO, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), content marketing, social media, paid campaigns, and lead generation.
• Create AIpowered workflows for content creation, keyword research, campaign management, audience targeting, and marketing analytics.
• Improve digital marketing productivity, personalization, and performance through AI initiatives.

CLIENT AI SERVICES & CONSULTING:

• Develop AI assessment, consulting, implementation, and managed services offerings.
• Identify AI opportunities across Flexsin's existing client base and new prospects.
• Lead AI discovery workshops, readiness assessments, usecase identification, PoCs, and implementation strategies.
• Support presales, solution consulting, proposal creation, and client presentations related to AI initiatives.

AI PRODUCTS & ACCELERATORS:

• Identify market opportunities for AIpowered products and platforms.
• Lead the design and development of reusable AI accelerators, frameworks, and industry solutions.
• Drive innovation around AI agents, knowledge assistants, estimation tools, proposal automation, CRM intelligence, and other proprietary offerings.
• Create revenuegenerating AI products aligned with Flexsin's service portfolio.

AI CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (COE):

• Establish and lead Flexsin's AI Center of Excellence.
• Create AI training, certification, and upskilling programs for employees.
• Build and mentor a team of AI architects, AI engineers, prompt engineers, data scientists, and AI product specialists.
• Promote a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.

BUSINESS GROWTH & REVENUE OWNERSHIP:

• Build AI practice offerings and gotomarket strategies.
• Drive AIrelated revenue growth and account expansion opportunities.
• Develop strategic partnerships with AI technology vendors and platforms.
• Define KPIs and measure business impact from AI investments and initiatives.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related field.
• MBA or business management qualification will be an advantage.
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, digital transformation, consulting, or technology leadership.
• 5+ years of handson experience in AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, or Intelligent Automation.
• Proven experience leading engineering, delivery, or technology consulting teams.
• Strong experience in creating service offerings, practice building, and revenue generation.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, RAG, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, and AI Automation.
• Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Azure AI, AWS AI/Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and MCP ecosystems.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, DevOps, data engineering, analytics, APIs, and enterprise architecture.

LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS SKILLS:

• Ability to define and execute AI adoption strategies at organizational scale.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, and clientfacing skills.
• Experience in building highperforming teams and Centers of Excellence.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and strategic planning capabilities.
• Ability to identify business opportunities and convert them into scalable AI solutions.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS:

• Microsoft Applied Skills for Generative AI
• Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• Databricks Generative AI Certifications
• Relevant OpenAI, Anthropic, or Enterprise AI certifications

SUCCESS METRICS:

• AI adoption across engineering, delivery, operations, and management functions.
• Productivity improvement across teams through AIdriven workflows.
• AI-generated revenue from consulting, implementation, and managed services.
• Number of AI assessments, PoCs, and implementations delivered to clients.
• Number of AI products, accelerators, and reusable solutions launched.
• Employee AI certification and upskilling coverage.
• Contribution toward positioning Flexsin as an AIFirst Digital Engineering Company.