Director, AI & Data Consulting

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