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Not a tech consultancy that builds what won't get adopted. Not a product company chasing problems it doesn't understand. We're all three at once: strategy, deep technical and integration expertise, and product, working as one. That combination is our flywheel. Consulting keeps us close to the hardest real-world problems. Products let us solve them at scale. Every engagement sharpens our products; every deployment makes the next engagement faster, deeper, and more certain.\nWe're obsessed with outcomes. While 95% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, Visium is built to be the 5% delivering productised AI that compounds in value, not point solutions that deliver marginal gains. We are AI-native, not AI-adjacent. We don't bolt AI onto broken workflows; we redesign them with AI at the core.\nRole\nAs an AI Engineering Director, you will lead strategic AI and data programs across key enterprise accounts, acting as the senior client interface and ensuring successful delivery of high-impact engagements.\nYour mission is to drive account growth, oversee complex AI transformations, and serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across R&D, Digital, Innovation, and executive teams.\nYou will combine AI technical depth with consulting delivery experience, client-facing leadership, and commercial ownership to deliver sustained client value and business expansion.\nYou will also contribute to talent development and help shape the strategy and growth of Visium’s AI offering, with a focus on Life Sciences and Specialty Chemicals clients.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead and grow strategic accounts across key Specialty Chemicals players, identifying opportunities to expand engagement scope and convert pipeline into long-term partnerships.\nSupport both existing account growth and new business development by contributing to presales, upselling, account expansion, and opening new client relationships.\nOwn and steer the delivery of complex, multi-stream AI and data programs, ensuring technical excellence, business alignment, and measurable impact.\nAct as executive sponsor and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders (including C-Level), building deep, long-term relationships across R&D, Digital, and Innovation teams.\nProvide hands-on technical and strategic guidance to delivery teams, ensuring high-quality execution, resolving blockers, and safeguarding outcomes.\nGuide the delivery of AI solutions across applied machine learning, GenAI systems, LLM-based applications, AI agents, MLOps, model deployment, evaluation, monitoring, and production AI workflows.\nMentor and develop consultants and engineers, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting career growth in collaboration with the People function.\nContribute to the evolution of the Specialty Chemicals strategy, including hiring decisions, thought leadership, and shaping the firm’s positioning in the market.\nRequirements\nTo succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:\nStrong academic background in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nProven experience leading end-to-end AI or data transformation programs in complex enterprise environments.\nStrong technical credibility with hands-on understanding of AI/ML systems and delivery at scale.\nDeep technical expertise across modern AI engineering, including applied machine learning, GenAI systems, LLM-based applications, AI agents, MLOps, model deployment, evaluation, monitoring, and production AI workflows.\nExperience delivering AI and data use cases end-to-end on enterprise platforms, translating complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.\nProven experience delivering large-scale technical programs in a consulting or client-facing environment.\nDemonstrated ability to work directly with senior client stakeholders, including C-Level, R&D, Digital, Innovation, and technical leadership.\nStrong track record in commercial growth, including presales, upselling, account expansion, new business development, or identifying new client opportunities.\nProven leadership experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing AI, data science, or engineering teams.\nExcellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex AI topics and drive decision-making at senior levels.\nExperience in Life Sciences and/or Specialty Chemicals is a strong plus, especially in AI, data, R&D, Digital, Innovation, or enterprise transformation use cases. 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