Regional AI Run Lead

EPAM Systems; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid by design

Remote within Poland

Work abroad up to 60 days

Relocation opportunities

Health insurance

Multisport

Shopping vouchers

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Regional AI Run Lead to unite delivery leadership, commercial ownership and hands-on AI-native engineering across Poland. The role demands a senior, production-facing leader who has shipped AI-native delivery and will own regional AI maturity while remaining engaged in client work.

You will build a lean, embedded team of AI-native practitioners, collaborate across accounts, and drive measurable outcomes in revenue, margin and reusable assets for global AI-native delivery.

Qualifications

• Senior delivery or engineering leadership with hands-on AI-native delivery
• Experience shaping commercial structures for large engagements
• Experience operating across regions and large accounts

Responsibilities

• Own regional AI maturity and drive advanced AI-native delivery
• Scale AI-native delivery activation across live accounts
• Drive commercial enablement in RFPs and renewals
• Build and deploy AI-native engineering capacity and talent
• Lead a lean cross-location core team (4–5 people)

Job description

We are looking for a Regional AI Run Lead who operates at the intersection of delivery leadership, commercial ownership and hands‑on AI-native engineering. This is a senior, production-facing role for a leader who has personally shipped AI-native delivery, not one who has only advised on it. The successful candidate will be accountable for the measurable AI maturity of an entire geography while remaining directly engaged in client work, and will build a lean, embedded team that produces reusable assets consumed well beyond their own region.

Responsibilities

• Own regional AI maturity: map every delivery center's maturity level, assign local owners and cadences, and move teams toward advanced (L2/L3) AI-native delivery
• Scale AI-native delivery activation across live accounts, including AI Factory and delivery-as-code practices; capture proven delivery patterns and feed them back into the broader framework
• Drive commercial enablement by engaging early in RFPs and renewals; shape managed-output and fixed-fee commercial structures that improve margin, and push engagements away from time-and-materials wherever renewal, consolidation, or expansion allows
• Build and deploy AI-native engineering capacity through structured enablement cohorts; champion the region's practitioner networks and grow a pipeline of AI Factory–ready senior talent
• Bring AI maturity and transformation credibility into the client conversations where regional deals are decided, supporting client transformation efforts directly
• Continuously harvest reusable assets, accelerators, and delivery patterns from regional projects and land them in the global AI-native delivery framework, ensuring proven approaches don't stay siloed within one location
• Lead and develop a lean, cross-location core team (target 4–5 people) including AI-native solution architects, senior AI-native practitioners embedded in accounts, and small engineering squads delivering lighthouse projects
• Track and report against a defined set of outcome metrics: regional maturity score and its movement, signed AI-native/managed-output SOWs, volume of trained AI-native talent, measurable client revenue and margin impact, and the number of reusable assets actually adopted by other regions

Requirements

• Senior delivery or engineering leadership experience, with a demonstrable, hands‑on track record of shipping AI‑native work – not solely advisory or strategy experience
• Comfortable owning a number and a P&L‑adjacent commercial outcome, not just running a team
• Practical experience with modern AI‑assisted engineering tools and agentic delivery approaches, gained through direct use rather than secondhand exposure
• Experience shaping commercial structures for large engagements (SOWs, RFPs, managed‑output or outcome‑based models) and negotiating scope with senior client stakeholders
• Track record of building or scaling delivery accelerators, reusable assets, or engineering platforms across teams
• Experience operating across regions, delivery centers, large accounts, or large‑scale delivery programs
• Strong bias toward harvesting and sharing knowledge across teams and geographies, rather than keeping proven approaches local
• Credibility sufficient to make maturity judgments that influence client decisions directly

We offer

• We gather like-minded people:
  • Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
  • Supportive team and agile, startup‑like culture
  • Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
  • Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
  • Business‑driven relocation opportunities
• We provide growth opportunities:
  • Career development programs
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well‑being programs
  • Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • English classes
• We cover it all:
  • Stable pay
  • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
  • Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
  • Referral bonuses up to $2,000
  • Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
  • Corporate, social and well‑being events
• Please, note:
  • Benefits listed above are available to employees only
  • We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
  • We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI‑Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.