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We’retheexperience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.\nThe opportunityAt 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.\nWe are proud of:\nThe work we do and the innovation we drive\n\nOur values of share, care and dare\n\nOur borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration\n\nThe role 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.\nValtech 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. \nThis 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. \nYou will thrive in this role if you are:\nA curious problem solver who challenges the status quo\n\nA collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing\n\nExcited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data\n\nExperienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)\n\nOur point of viewDeployment isn’t the finish line, it’s game day. We focus on getting AI into production and keeping it there, which means the data, platform, evaluation, and operating foundations matter as much as the model. You’ll carry that point of view into client conversations and into the work itself.\nWhat you'll do\nWin\n\nLead Data & AI pursuits from qualification through signed SOW: shape the solution, model the Data & AI economics (inference, infrastructure, and platform costs), build the estimate, structure the scope, and lead the orals. \n\nMake go/no-go calls on the pursuits you lead, with a clear view of value, risk, and our ability to deliver.\n\nTurn broad client ambitions into phased programs that prove value early and create the foundation for scale.\n\nRaise the quality of pursuits led by others through solution reviews and direct coaching.\n\nDeliver\nServe as technical lead on two client engagements at a time, owning architecture, technical risk, and quality.\n\nMake sure AI solutions have the data, platform, evaluation, observability, and support foundations they need to run in production.\n\nBe the senior technical voice clients trust when tradeoffs get hard.\n\nLead\nOwn solution sign-off on the pursuits and engagements you lead, and help shape staffing across the practice’s data science, AI, data engineering, and platform work.\n\nPartner with analytics, measurement, and optimization leaders so solutions connect to business outcomes.\n\nLead through influence. The role starts without direct reports and shapes how senior practitioners across the practice work.\n\nInterview candidates for data science, AI, data engineering, and platform roles, and help us attract strong senior talent.\n\nBuild\nTurn delivery experience into reference architectures, estimating models, and solution patterns other teams reuse.\n\nHelp build our point of view and support pursuits in industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, and distribution businesses, working with our industry and client leaders.\n\nUse AI tools in your own work and help the practice adopt them responsibly.\n\nMust have qualificationsTo be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:\n\nTypically 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.\n\nHands-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.\n\nDeep, recent experience with at least one of Databricks, Google Cloud, or Microsoft data and AI platforms, and working fluency across the other two.\n\nA record of shaping and winning enterprise pursuits: solutioning, estimating, scoping, and presenting to executive buyers.\n\nExecutive presence. You form a clear point of view, defend it under pressure, and change your mind when the evidence calls for it.\n\nComfort with pace. You do your best work when priorities shift, several clients need you at once, and the answer is needed today.\n\nExperience delivering data or AI work for industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, or distribution businesses.\n\nNice to have qualifications \nFrench language skills.\n\nCurrent certifications from Databricks, Google Cloud, or Microsoft.\n\nA public point of view on enterprise AI, such as published articles or conference talks.\n\nWhat success looks like in your first year\nYou’ve led pursuits we won, and you’re the technical lead on work you helped sell.\n\nClients and internal teams seek out your technical judgment.\n\nOur pursuits are sharper because of your solution reviews, estimates, and orals coaching.\n\nOther teams reuse assets you built, and you’ve helped strengthen our credibility with industrial and manufacturing clients.\n\nIf you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply. At Valtech, we recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.\n\nThe benefits This is a full-time position based in Canada. The offered salary range is 150k-200k CAD annually, depending on experience and location.\nBeyond a competitive compensation package, we offer:\n\nFlexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)\n\nCareer advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs\n\nLearning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, plus employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nOur benefits are tailored to each location. Your Talent Partner will provide full details during the hiring process.\nYour application processOnce you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. If your skills and experience align with the role, we’ll reach out for next steps.Your CV should cover key information on relevant experiences and expertise. We do not require information such as age, gender, marital status, or a headshot in your application. We review all candidates based on skills, experience, and potential.\n⚠️ Beware of recruitment fraud: Only engage with official Valtech email addresses.\nWe are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know.\nAbout ValtechValtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.\nAt the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.\nAt Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.\nAre you ready to create what’s next? 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