AI & Data Transformation Director

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New York (NY)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 230,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid flexibility

Job summary

Artefact is seeking a Director of AI & Data Consulting to lead and grow our US practice. You will drive client engagements, shape AI strategy, and build multidisciplinary teams that deliver measurable outcomes.

The role requires executive-level collaboration, hands-on AI work, and a track record of winning work. You will mentor consultants, develop pipelines, and contribute to thought leadership while advancing production-grade, governed AI adoption across industries.

Qualifications

8–10 years of demonstrated success at a consulting, technology, or media firm, with robust experience managing both projects and clients.
Proven ability to win work: a business development track record, preferably having built a book of business.
Experience advising senior executives (C-level) on data, digital, or AI transformation.
Demonstrated AI literacy as a builder: regular hands-on use of AI tools to produce real work — prototypes, analyses, automations.
Working fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex, and comfort in the terminal with AI guidance.
Specialization in at least one major AI platform ecosystem — Google (Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI), Anthropic (Claude Enterprise), or OpenAI — sufficient to advise on platform selection and adoption.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary contact and trusted advisor for client executives — CMO, CDO, CIO, and often CEO — on data and AI transformation.
Win engagements: develop the client portfolio, grow the US commercial pipeline, and build and present winning proposals.
Lead multidisciplinary teams of consultants, data scientists, AI engineers, and analysts, and orchestrate Artefact's global offices when needed.
Ensure delivery meets Artefact's quality bar: measurable impact, not just recommendations.
Shape AI and data strategies, operating models, roadmaps, and adoption programs that survive contact with reality.
Guide clients from GenAI pilots to production-grade, governed AI adoption — including agentic AI, AI-native ways of working, and organizational change.
Bring a firm command of the data, marketing, and technology ecosystem, and keep it current as the AI landscape moves.
Bring (or build) vertical expertise — e.g., CPG, retail, financial services, healthcare, telecom.
Use AI tools daily in your own work — analysis, writing, prototyping — and set the standard for what an AI-native consultant looks like.
Prototype with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex) to make ideas tangible in pitches and workshops.
Maintain real specialization in at least one AI platform ecosystem — Google (Gemini Enterprise), Anthropic (Claude), or OpenAI — deep enough to advise credibly on platform strategy.
Understand context engineering well enough to shape how clients connect AI to their data, documents, and systems.
Lead and develop the US consulting team: recruiting, mentoring, training, and best-practice sharing across countries.
Develop others' AI literacy: make every consultant on your teams a more capable builder.
Contribute to content and thought leadership: Artefact-published research, articles, business cases, events, and PR.
Communicate successes internally and externally to strengthen Artefact's US market position.