Technical Director - AI

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The Technical Director will play a key role in shaping and delivering large-scale, global transformation initiatives for our most strategic clients. You will lead a community of talented people who are enthusiastic about building best-in-class digital solutions. This is a strategic leadership role, where you will be embedded within our largest clients. You will work with C-level stakeholders to imagine, shape, and deliver large-scale transformation initiatives whilst staying close enough to the teams who make it happen. Our perfect candidate really cares about helping teams to make things better for users. They will be as credible as a coach and mentor for both colleagues and clients as they are as a technologist. Curiosity, critical thought, and an ability to get under the skin of our clients' businesses will make this role seriously satisfying. Strategic Client Leadership Build relationships with senior technology stakeholders within our clients' businesses. Serve as the transformation lead for major enterprise clients, helping define, shape, and deliver vision, technology strategy, implementation, operating model amends, and revisions. Advance accounts through the identification of new opportunities, looking to ensure any upsell and cross sell opportunities are rooted in client business requirements and have robust ROI returns. AI product delivery operations strategy: recommend AI tooling and usage patterns that deliver measurable return on investment for our clients. AI product strategy: recommend the use of AI within clients' products where appropriate, to deliver value for their customers and end users. Operating model reviews and design for AI adoption: centralised reuse of AI pipelines, skills repositories, and plug-ins across client engagements, and collaboration with wider teams beyond technology (delivery, strategy, and design) to establish centralised requirements and shared context for AI workflows. Drive strategic alignment across enterprise functions and digital workstreams, ensuring initiatives ladder up into a cohesive strategy. Ensure business strategy alignment with the work being delivered. Be accountable for the successful delivery of the work. Represent Valtech as a voice of authority and confidence and lead our clients through their initiatives with expert guidance becoming that trusted advisor to the client. Be the technical escalation point for issues within assigned clients, and be proactive in identifying and dealing with issues as soon as they arise. Technical Leadership Provide first class technical leadership within the client environment; enable, guide and coach teams to navigate complexity and effectively deliver transformational programmes of work. Be an enabler for Artificial Intelligence adoption to drive efficiency and innovation for clients, acting as an agent of change within delivery teams and empowering them to use AI effectively in their day-to-day work. Consult with senior client stakeholders to advise on technology adoption to achieve outcomes. Identify, mentor, and develop future technical leaders within the assigned client delivery teams. Support and influence across delivery layers, from digital platforms and product teams to governance and business capabilities. Strengthen the technical presence and drive involvement within the global Valtech community around transformation matters and modern software delivery. Make transformation a reality by balancing strategic direction with continuous, on-the-ground progress. Bring industry knowledge into engagements, challenge internal assumptions and equip teams to solve big problems effectively. Drive training, evangelism, and excitement around AI products and product selection across delivery teams. Create a culture of sharing around AI adoption: surfacing

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Technical Director - AI Engineering Location: UK Type: Remote / Hybrid (our clients will expect us to be present when they are, and thus we will require commitment to be on-site within client environments where needed) A few words about us: Valtech is a global digital agency focused on enabling business transformation. We enable clients to anticipate tomorrow's trends and connect more directly with their consumers across digital and physical touchpoints. We deliver innovation with a purpose. With expertise across experience design, technology and marketing, our passion is in addressing transformational business challenges for our clients. Challenges where we re-imagine the customer journey and build new connected experiences. Challenges where we make data work in this new era and help our clients transform the way they operate and optimise business-critical digital platforms for multichannel commerce and marketing. Operating across five continents with over 6,000 innovators in twenty-two countries, we help organisations reimagine the way they connect with their customers, leverage data, and transform their business operations.

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