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Here, you’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact.\nPosition Overview\nWoolpert is hiring an AI Practice Director to join our dynamic Digital Innovations team. This position reports to the Head of Customer Engineering and is responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of our Artificial Intelligence services. This role leads the growth of our AI capability across enterprise client engagements, aligning cutting-edge AI technologies (including Google Cloud Platform, Vertex AI, Generative AI, and geospatial intelligence) with business outcomes for our clients.\nAs the AI Practice Director, you will be the executive leader and practice builder driving strategic offerings, practice profitability, go-to-market execution, and talent development. You will partner with executive stakeholders, cross-functional sales leaders, and delivery teams to position Woolpert as a premier provider of enterprise AI solutions, AI agents, and advanced data platforms.\nWe are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.\nWhat You Will Do:\nPractice Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the multi-year business strategy, service offerings, and growth roadmap for the AI Practice within Woolpert Digital Innovations.\nLeadership & Talent Growth: Recruit, mentor, and lead a world-class team of AI Customer Engineers, Solution Architects, and AI specialists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.\nGo-To-Market & Business Development: Partner with sales, account managers, and executive leadership to drive revenue growth, expand client relationships, and lead high-stakes technical pitches and proposals.\nThought Leadership & Partnership: Serve as the primary executive sponsor for key partner relationships (including Google Cloud) and represent Woolpert at industry conferences, panels, and executive briefings.\nDelivery Oversight & Excellence: Ensure high-quality technical delivery across all AI engagements, establishing best practices for solution architecture, enterprise integrations, and Responsible AI governance.\nOperational Management: Oversee practice utilization, resource allocation, margin targets, and financial performance for AI consulting engagements and technical solutions.\nExecutive Advisory: Advise enterprise C-suite executives on AI transformation roadmaps, ROI realization, AI readiness, and governance frameworks.\nWhat You Will Bring:\n8+ years of technical leadership or practice management experience in professional services, cloud consulting, or tech firms, with 3+ years specifically focused on building and delivering AI, machine learning, or data platform solutions.\nDemonstrated success growing a professional services practice, managing P&L or practice metrics, and driving partner co-sell strategies (preferably with Google Cloud).\nStrong background in cloud architecture (GCP preferred), enterprise AI models, data infrastructure, and modern software engineering principles.\nGCP & Cloud Data Architecture: Extensive hands-on experience designing, architecting, and deploying production-grade solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including big data architecture, data lakes, and data warehousing.\nGoogle Certification: Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, or Professional Machine Learning Engineer required.\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS \nExperience with Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel).\nKnowledge of non-Google geospatial platforms and tools, such as ArcGIS, GeoServer, QGIS, OpenLayers, MapBox, or CARTO.\nRelevant Google, Amazon, or Azure certification (e.g., Google Professional Cloud Architect or Data Engineer).\nExperience with cloud-native infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong debugging skills for non-deterministic AI outputs and complex API tracing.\nSUCCESS IN THIS ROLE \nCore Skills\nClarity: You use a communication style that is appropriate to the context and you respect the time of others.\nEmpathy: You ask lots of questions to understand the deeper meaning behind motivations and act in the best interests of the customer.\nActive Listener: You listen more than you talk, and you know when not to share your thoughts.\nEmbrace Diversity: You believe new and different perspectives strengthen any relationship, solution, or engagement.\nTechnical Skills\nStrategic Leadership: You translate complex technical opportunities into clear executive strategy and operational execution.\nPractice Building: You know how to build, scale, and manage profitable consulting practices and technical capability teams.\nAI Architecture Authority: You possess deep understanding of modern AI patterns, including LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and cloud data platforms.\nClient Executive Presence: You easily build trust with CTOs, CIOs, and business leaders, converting technical capabilities into strategic partnerships.\nEffective Learner: You approach new technical subject matter systematically. Figuring out an API, learning a new CLI, or jumping into a new codebase are just things you do.\nDevOps Mindset: You know shipping once is easy, but shipping repeatedly in production requires discipline. Infrastructure is code!\nMachine Learning: You have a strong foundation in core machine learning principles, model training, evaluation metrics, and feature engineering.\nBenefits You Will Love\nCertified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:\nFreedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).\nPrincipal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.\nFlexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.\nCareer development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.\nHealth, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.\nPaid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!\nBase pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.\nPay Range\n$139,200—$208,800 USD\nFind out more about what Woolpert has to offer here: http://woolpert.com/about-us/\nWoolpert is an equal-opportunity employer. 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