Artefact - Director

• As a Director at Artefact UK, you will operate at the intersection of AI and data strategy, client leadership, and commercial growth. Reporting to the Partners and Managing Director, you own the AI and data agenda across a portfolio of clients, with Tech Leads and Managers reporting to you and running the day-to-day delivery of the engagements within it. This is a role for someone who is equally comfortable shaping a client's AI strategy at board level and building the playbook that lets Artefact deliver it again, better, for the next client. • Technology leadership: You will take a client's business opportunities and pain points and match them to the right ML, AI or data engineering solution. You possess the technical depth required to engage in discussions regarding solution architecture and implementation details with a client’s Principal Engineers and Data Scientists. • Technology leadership: • AI use case leadership: You will work with client management and Artefact teams to identify and prioritise the AI use cases that create genuine differential value, and lead their development end to end, from ideation through to deployment and continuous improvement. You will build and maintain a library of use cases and solution sets that can be reused and adapted across the wider client base. • AI use case leadership: • Data and analytics capability building: You will assess clients' current data and analytics maturity, spot the opportunities for rapid enhancement, and turn what you learn into a playbook that can be repeated across new clients. • Data and analytics capability building: • Senior client advisory and stakeholder relationships: You will work closely with client cross-functional teams, spanning technology and business, to ensure AI solutions integrate cleanly into how the organisation actually runs. You will build strong relationships with key stakeholders across your clients, and create a community of data leaders that shares knowledge and best practice across the portfolio, positioning Artefact as a genuine partner in that network rather than a supplier to it. • Senior client advisory and stakeholder relationships: • Commercial ownership and business development: You will lead pitches end-to-end, shaping the proposition, directing proposal development, and leading client-facing pitches and RFP responses, and you will contribute to pipeline management and opportunity prioritisation across the broader practice. • Commercial ownership and business development: • Thought leadership, innovation and talent development: You will stay ahead of developments in AI and data analytics, bring cutting-edge solutions and a network of trusted advisors to your clients, and contribute insights and recommendations that shape Artefact's own AI and data strategy. You will mentor and support the development of data and AI talent at Artefact, with particular attention to growing the Tech Leads and Managers who report to you. • Thought leadership, innovation and talent development: • The kind of person this works for • The Director role is for people who have already proven they can lead AI and data engagements and manage senior talent, and who are ready to be accountable for a portfolio of clients, a library of reusable solutions, and the technology leads who deliver against both. It is a step-change in scope, not just seniority. What we're looking for: • Around 10+ years of experience leading AI and data projects, with a strong, specific track record of delivering measurable business value for clients, ideally including several years spent working with consulting and technical teams together. • Around 10+ years of experience leading AI and data projects, • Deep expertise across AI technologies, machine learning, data analytics, and data management, paired with a strong understanding of AI and ML, data infrastructure and architecture, including data warehousing, and cloud-based solutions, so you can move fluidly between the strategic and the technical. • Deep expertise across AI technologies, machine learning, data analytics, and data management, • A track record you can speak to specifically, including engagements you have delivered, accounts you have grown, and pitches you have led. • A track record you can speak to specifically, • Credible at C-suite level; confident engaging and influencing senior executives and stakeholders across a client organisation, not because you perform confidence, but because you have done the work and know what you are talking about. • Credible at C-suite level; • Genuinely invested in developing other people; you mentor and support the technical talent around you, and you take building Artefact's data and AI capability as seriously as you take any individual engagement. • Genuinely invested in developing other people; • We do not require a single career path to this role. Some of our strongest Directors came from tier-one consulting firms, some from private equity or in-house transformation leadership, and some grew here. What they share is deep AI and data expertise, the ability to earn trust at every level, and the judgement to know when to operate strategically and when to get into the technical details themselves.