Director, AI & Data Consulting

About this role

<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 &amp; Data Consulting to help lead our US consulting practice.&nbsp;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> <li>Communicate successes internally and externally to strengthen Artefact's US market position.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></p> <ul> <li>8–10 years of demonstrated success at a consulting, technology, or media firm (or in-house in a related capacity), with robust experience managing both projects and clients.</li> <li>Proven ability to win work: a business development track record, preferably having built a book of business.</li> <li>Experience advising senior executives (C-level) on data, digital, or AI transformation.</li> <li>Demonstrated AI literacy as a builder: regular hands-on use of AI tools to produce real work — prototypes, analyses, automations — not only slideware.</li> <li>Working fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex, and comfort in the terminal with AI guidance.</li> <li>Specialization in at least one major AI platform ecosystem — Google (Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI), Anthropic (Claude Enterprise), or OpenAI — sufficient to advise on platform selection and adoption.</li> <li>Outstanding communication skills: executive presence, sharp storytelling, and the ability to make complex AI topics simple without making them wrong.</li> <li>Experience leading and developing consulting teams.</li> <li>Thought leadership at the intersection of data, marketing, and technology</li> </ul> <p><em>Preferred Experience</em></p> <ul> <li>Vertical expertise in CPG, retail, financial services, healthcare, or telecom.</li> <li>Experience taking clients from AI experimentation to scaled, governed adoption.</li> <li>Familiarity with context engineering concepts: RAG, semantic layers, knowledge bases, MCP.</li> <li>An existing network and reputation in the US data &amp; AI market.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why you should join us</strong></p> <p>We are united by our <strong>values</strong> and strengthened by our hybrid <strong>expertise</strong>.</p> <ul> <li><strong>There is always a way:</strong> We're from the breed of does, of diggers, of makers. Because ideas are valuable only if executed.</li> <li><strong>Client trust is won on the field:</strong> Addressing client needs flows better hands on at their side.</li> <li><strong>If not used, it is useless:</strong> Our love for technology translates in