Data & AI Director

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Valtech The Data & AI Director at Valtech leads complex client engagements and strategic pursuits in Data & AI, focusing on industrial and manufacturing clients. This player-coach role involves technical leadership on client projects and driving solution quality and practice scalability.

Responsibilities

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.
We are proud of:
The work we do and the innovation we drive
Our values of share, care and dare
Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration
As a Data&AI Director, you are passionate about experience innovation and eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You bring 12+ YEARS of experience, a growth mindset and a drive to make a lasting impact.
Valtech is hiring a Senior Director, Data & AI, to help us win and deliver our most complex client engagements across the Americas, with a particular focus on industrial and manufacturing clients. You’ll shape and lead strategic pursuits, serve as technical lead on a portion of the work we win, and raise the bar for the teams that build and run it.
This is a player-coach role. About half your time is client-billable, typically as technical lead on two engagements. The rest goes to pursuits, solution quality, staffing support, and the reusable assets that help the practice scale. You’ll report to the VP and Head of Data & AI, Americas, and you’ll own real decisions on the pursuits and solutions you lead from your first day.
A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo
A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing
Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data
Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)

Qualification

To be considered for this roleTypically 12 or more years in dataDeepExecutive presenceComfort with paceFrench language skillsCurrent certifications from DatabricksA public point of view on enterprise AIYou’ve led pursuits we wonOther teams reuse assets you built

Required

To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:
Typically 12 or more years in data, analytics, and AI, including at least 5 in consulting, professional services, or client-facing delivery roles where you led multiple engagements at once.
Hands-on depth in both AI and agentic solution design and modern data platform architecture. You can design either, lead technical teams on both, and hold your own 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: solutioning, estimating, scoping, and presenting to executive buyers.
Executive presence. You form a clear point of view, defend it under pressure, and change your mind when the evidence calls for it.
Comfort with pace. You do your best work when priorities shift, several clients need you at once, and the answer is needed today.
Experience delivering data or AI work for industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, or distribution businesses.

Preferred

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.
What success looks like in your first year
You’ve led pursuits we won, and you’re the technical lead on work you helped sell.
Clients and internal teams seek out your technical judgment.
Our pursuits are sharper because of your solution reviews, estimates, and orals coaching.
Other teams reuse assets you built, and you’ve helped strengthen our credibility with industrial and manufacturing clients.

Benefits

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