Data & AI Director

Valtech

1d • CA$150,000 - CA$200,000

About The Position

Valtech is hiring a Senior Director, Data & AI, to help win and deliver complex client engagements across the Americas, particularly for industrial and manufacturing clients. This player-coach role combines client-billable technical leadership with pursuit leadership, solution quality, staffing support, and development of reusable practice assets. About half of the role is typically billable, serving as technical lead on two engagements at a time. The position reports to the VP and Head of Data & AI, Americas, and begins without direct reports.

The role emphasizes getting AI into production and keeping it there. The director brings data, platform, evaluation, and operating foundations together with model development, and applies this perspective in client discussions and delivery. The role also supports work across industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, and distribution businesses.

Requirements

• Typically 12 or more years of experience in data, analytics, and AI, including at least 5 years in consulting, professional services, or client-facing delivery roles leading multiple engagements at once.
• Hands-on depth in AI and agentic solution design and modern data platform architecture; ability to design in either area, lead technical teams in both, and engage effectively with client architects.
• Deep, recent experience with at least one of Databricks, Google Cloud, or Microsoft data and AI platforms, and working fluency across the other two.
• A record of shaping and winning enterprise pursuits, including solutioning, estimating, scoping, and presenting to executive buyers.
• Executive presence, with the ability to form and defend a clear point of view and revise it when evidence warrants.
• Comfort working at a fast pace with shifting priorities and several clients requiring attention at once.
• Experience delivering data or AI work for industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, or distribution businesses.

Nice To Haves

• French language skills.
• Current certifications from Databricks, Google Cloud, or Microsoft.
• A public point of view on enterprise AI, such as published articles or conference talks.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and consulting.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data & AI pursuits from qualification through signed SOW, including solution design, modeling Data & AI economics, estimating, scoping, and leading presentations to clients.
• Make go/no-go decisions on pursuits, assessing value, risk, and delivery capability.
• Translate broad client ambitions into phased programs that prove value early and establish foundations for scale.
• Review and improve pursuits led by others through solution reviews and coaching.
• Serve as technical lead on two client engagements at a time, owning architecture, technical risk, and quality.
• Ensure AI solutions have the data, platform, evaluation, observability, and support foundations needed for production.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to clients on difficult tradeoffs.
• Own solution sign-off for pursuits and engagements led, and help shape staffing across data science, AI, data engineering, and platform work.
• Partner with analytics, measurement, and optimization leaders to connect solutions to business outcomes.
• Lead through influence and shape how senior practitioners across the practice work.
• Interview candidates for data science, AI, data engineering, and platform roles and help attract senior talent.
• Turn delivery experience into reusable reference architectures, estimating models, and solution patterns.
• Develop Valtech’s point of view and support pursuits in industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, and distribution businesses in collaboration with industry and client leaders.
• Use AI tools in personal work and help the practice adopt them responsibly.

Benefits

• Remote and hybrid work options, depending on country.
• Career advancement, international mobility, and professional development programs.
• Access to cutting-edge tools, training, and industry experts.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
• Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed