Strategic AI Engineering Growth Leader

Agile Tekventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability coverage

401(k) after 30 days

11 paid holidays

12 weeks parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Agile Tekventures is seeking a senior, client-facing growth leader to own the AI Engineering workstream across a portfolio of strategic accounts in New York. You will build executive relationships, originate transformation opportunities, and shape multi-year programs spanning AI, data, cloud, and modernization.

This role operates at the intersection of strategic growth and technology advisory. You will drive end-to-end lifecycle activities from executive engagement and problem definition through

Qualifications

• 15+ years in technology consulting, digital engineering, data/AI services, or enterprise transformation.
• Proven track record of originating, shaping, and winning complex multi-year programs with enterprise clients.
• Credibility with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and senior executives.
• Strong commercial expertise in opportunity qualification, deal strategy, pricing, contracting, negotiation, risk management, and portfolio economics.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary, distributed teams in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Growth and C-Suite Engagement: Own the AI Engineering growth agenda, including qualified pipeline, bookings, revenue, margins, and profitable expansion across assigned strategic accounts.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, Chief Digital Officers, business presidents, and senior technology leaders.
• Develop executive-level perspectives on AI-led transformation and enterprise modernization, linking technology decisions to business growth, productivity, resilience, speed, and customer experience.
• Map account priorities, stakeholders, budgets, decision-making processes, and competitive positioning to develop targeted account and pursuit strategies.
• Lead executive briefings, innovation sessions, modernization assessments, and co-creation workshops to generate sponsored, outcome-driven transformation opportunities.
• Transformation Origination and Enterprise Modernization: Identify and shape strategic opportunities across data platform/cloud modernization; AI/ML/Generative AI; application and software engineering; intelligent operations and enterprise automation.
• Translate enterprise technology environments and business objectives into multi-year roadmaps, investment cases, target architectures, and governance models.
• Advise clients on responsible AI, security, privacy, model risk, data governance, interoperability, and operating-model requirements for enterprise adoption.
• Pursuit Leadership and Program Scaling: Lead complex pursuits from qualification through solution design, value engineering, proposals, negotiations, and executive deal closure.
• Coordinate consulting, AI, data, cloud, product, design, and engineering teams around a unified client proposition and delivery model.
• Scale pilots into reusable platforms and multi-region programs; develop client references and executive advocacy.

Skills

Executive engagement

Strategic account growth

Business storytelling

Proposal writing

Commercial leadership

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Business

Master's degree or MBA preferred

Job description

Agile Tekventures is seeking a senior, client-facing growth leader to own the AI Engineering workstream across a portfolio of strategic accounts in New York. You will build executive relationships, originate transformation opportunities, and shape multi-year programs spanning AI, data, cloud, and modernization.

This role operates at the intersection of strategic growth and technology advisory. You will drive end-to-end lifecycle activities from executive engagement and problem definition through