Executive Director, Data & AI

Why Valtech? We’re the experience 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. 

The opportunity

At 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. 

We are proud of: 

• The work we do and the innovation we drive 
• Our values of share, care and dare 
• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy 
• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration 

The role  

We’re hiring a senior Data & AI leader who can sit confidently with executives to shape outcomes around agentic systems, generative AI, and measurable business impact while also rolling up sleeves to guide delivery across ML, advanced analytics, and data platform foundations. You’ll anchor critical pursuits, steward solution quality, and reduce single-threaded risk on leadership bandwidth by acting as a force-multiplier across accounts. 

This role blends Practice Delivery (owning outcomes on high-stakes engagements) and Practice Enablement (sharpening offers, accelerators, playbooks, and partner co-sell). You will collaborate with the 3-core disciplines in our Data & AI Practice: Analytics, Intelligence & Optimization; Data Science & Generative AI; Data Engineering & Platforms. 

Role responsibilities

Executive & Client Leadership

• Serve as the executive-facing Data & AI lead for priority accounts: frame business problems, shape hypotheses, define KPIs, and land value cases for AI/ML and agentic workflows. 

• Translate between C-suite objectives and technical plans (governance, security, model risk, data contracts, SLAs). 

• Co-own roadmaps that unify data foundations (ingest/model/serve), advanced analytics (forecasting/attribution/optimization), and GenAI (RAG/agents/tools) into a measurable value program. 

Agentic & GenAI Solutions 

• Design pragmatic architectures for agentic systems (tool-use, retrieval, planning/evaluation loops) that integrate with modern data stacks and application surfaces. 

• Establish safe-by-default patterns: policy, PII handling, secret management, human-in-the-loop, evals/guardrails, cost/perf telemetry. 

• Guide build vs. buy vs. assemble decisions across cloud services and partner ecosystems (Azure/Databricks; GCP/Vertex/BigQuery).  

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