Director of AI Growth & Transformation

SaxeCap; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SaxeCap is seeking a Director of Growth to open new clients and scale our AI transformation practice in the United States. You will originate relationships with CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and managing partners, run the first conversation, diagnose where AI can move costs and growth, and convert insights into multi-year transformation programs delivered by our engineers and operators.

You will report to the CEO and senior leadership, work with delivery principals on scope and terms, and demonstrate

Qualifications

• 5 to 20 years of experience with a track record of originating and closing complex, multi-stakeholder services or technology engagements with senior executives.
• Credible on AI transformation: you have led, delivered, or sold AI, automation, or analytics programs inside operating businesses, can explain how they work and what they return in plain language, and can hold your own with a CTO as well as a CFO
• A strong executive network in one or more of our focus sectors: healthcare services, business and professional services, financial services and insurance, software, education, or consumer; relationships in North America, Europe, Asia, or the Middle East beyond the US are a plus
• Executive presence: you have sat across from CEOs and CFOs on deals, transformations, or operating decisions and can run a first conversation alone
• Commercial and financial fluency: you read a P&L and an employee census quickly and can frame an opportunity in EBITDA terms
• Backgrounds that tend to fit: engagement manager or associate partner at a top consulting firm who sold and delivered AI or transformation work; enterprise or strategic account leader at an AI-native or data company; forward deployed engineer or deployment strategist who moved into go‑to‑market; private equity or investment banking professional with hands‑on exposure to portfolio value‑creation programs; transformation or managed services director at a large advisory firm
• Legally authorized to work in the US

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a named list of companies and executives, primarily in the US and generate first meetings through your own network, warm introductions, and targeted outreach
• Run the first conversation yourself: diagnose where AI can move a company's cost base and growth, and leave with a scoped next step
• Shape initial engagements and convert them into multi-year programs, working with a delivery principal on scope, pricing, staffing, and terms
• Own the commercial relationship on the accounts you open through follow on phases and renewals, with the delivery team owning the work
• Keep pipeline, next steps, and forecasts current in our operating model
• Bring market feedback and new use cases back to the founders and the product team

Skills

Consultative selling

Executive networking

AI transformation knowledge

Deal closure experience

Strategic account management

Business acumen (P&L)

Job description

SaxeCap is seeking a Director of Growth to open new clients and scale our AI transformation practice in the United States. You will originate relationships with CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and managing partners, run the first conversation, diagnose where AI can move costs and growth, and convert insights into multi-year transformation programs delivered by our engineers and operators.

You will report to the CEO and senior leadership, work with delivery principals on scope and terms, and demonstrate