Director, AI & Data Consulting - Artefact

OpenTalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Artefact, a leading data and AI consulting firm, seeks a Director of AI & Data Consulting to lead our US practice in New York. You will win engagements with C-level executives, build and guide cross-functional teams, and deliver production-ready AI value for clients.

As a leader blending consulting excellence with deep AI literacy, you will shape data strategies and adoption programs, guiding clients from GenAI pilots to scalable, governed AI transformations.

Qualifications

• Executive-level client leadership experience.
• Experience guiding AI transformations across enterprise.
• Strong ability to prototype AI concepts in client rooms.
• Proven track record in leading multidisciplinary consulting teams.
• Business development and portfolio growth capability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary trusted advisor to client executives on data and AI transformation.
• Win engagements by developing client portfolio and proposals.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate global offices when needed.
• Ensure delivery creates measurable impact beyond recommendations.
• Shape AI and data strategies, roadmaps, and adoption programs.
• Guide clients from GenAI pilots to production-grade, governed AI adoption.
• Maintain current knowledge of data, marketing, and tech ecosystems.
• Develop vertical expertise (e.g., CPG, retail, finance, healthcare).
• Prototype with agentic tools to bring ideas to life in pitches and workshops.

Skills

Client leadership

GenAI tooling

Prototyping

Team leadership

Business development

Tools

Claude Code

Gemini CLI

Codex

Job description

Artefact is a next-generation data and AI consulting firm dedicated to accelerating the adoption of data and AI to create measurable business impact across the full enterprise value chain.

We sit at the intersection of consulting, data science, AI technologies, data engineering, and digital transformation. We do not just advise - we build, implement, and deliver results our clients can measure. Our teams bring together consultants, data scientists, data engineers, AI engineers, analysts, and digital experts to solve complex business challenges with pragmatic, production-ready solutions.

As we continue to grow in the US, we are building a team of entrepreneurial data and AI talent who can help clients move beyond experimentation and into scalable, governed, value-generating AI adoption.

The Role

Artefact is looking for a Director of AI & Data Consulting to help lead our US consulting practice. Our consultants are not spectators of the AI transformation they advise on - they are builders. A Director at Artefact wins engagements with C-level executives, leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver them, and is personally fluent in the AI tools reshaping our clients' businesses. When a client asks what an agentic workflow could look like, you don't just describe it - you can open Claude Code or Gemini CLI and have a working prototype in the room by the next meeting. We need someone who is not afraid of the terminal.

This is a role for a leader who combines consulting excellence, commercial drive, and genuine AI literacy - and who can grow both a client portfolio and the people around them.

What You'll Do

• 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.