Google Cloud Director AI at Slalom

Who You’ll Work WithAs a modern technology company, our Slalom Technologists are disrupting the market and bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. We have passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative products to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems. We surround our technologists with interesting challenges, innovative minds, and emerging technologies. Global Technology is seeking AI/ML Leaders to join the Global Google Business Unit as our Google AI Capability Leader. You will help evangelize, solution, and deliver cutting-edge Google and multi-partner AI solutions for our most important customers. You will be working with and across market teams, and deeply integrated with Slalom’s Google partnership teams and with Google themselves. You have hands-on expertise with leading technologies for building applications powered by machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, or natural language processing. You realize code and data are just the start… you’ve built AI applications and operated them in production environments with actual usage. You’ve told stories about how use cases connect to business outcomes and working with stakeholders to support adoption. You blend expertise with empathy, teamwork, and mentoring to build lasting relationships resulting in customer success and growth. The team is globally distributed, and the role may include 30-50% travel to customers and markets.What You’ll Do Provide presales technical leadership to customers by understanding their business challenges and architecting AI/ML solutions to address them.Leverage expertise in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and the latest advancements like Generative AI to build POCs and prototypes that demonstrate value to prospective clients. Design, build, and present ML solutions, systems, and applications to address customer needs in areas like Computer Vision, NLP, Recommendation Systems, etc.Stay updated on the latest advancements in AI/ML, like Diffusion Models and foundation Models, and identify opportunities to incorporate them into customer solutions.Develop technical presentations and conduct workshops, hackathons, and customer events to educate clients on Google AI/ML capabilities and best practices.Work closely with account teams, solution architects, and engagement managers to drive technical sales cycles and translate complex ML solutions into business impact.Support the creation of ML pricing, GTM, partnerships, and org strategy to accelerate AI/ML adoption across the customer base.Contribute to growing ML community within the organization through coaching, mentoring and publishing thought leadership content.What You’ll Bring 8+ years of experience in presales/Sales Engineering roles, architecting, building, and demonstrating AI/ML solutions.Expertise in Machine Learning frameworks like Python, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow Apache Spark, and experience with Generative AI models like GANs, Transformers, and Diffusion Models.Knowledge of MLOps best practices around model training, evaluation, deployment, and governance. Ability to communicate and help clients operationally set up MLOps functions.Experience integrating ML solutions with cloud platforms like AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure Cognitive Services and leveraging their pre-built capabilities.Proficiency in ML workflow tools like Kubeflow, and MLflow for experiment tracking, model management, and model serving.Ability to identify and articulate the business value of AI/ML to stakeholders using innovative techniques like AI Readers, AI Assistants, Agentic frameworks, etc.Certifications and accreditation with Google Cloud would include Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Google Cloud Architect, and completion of Level 400 Google Gen AI skill badgeStrong communication, presentation, and storytelling skills to influence technical sales cycles with business decision-makers.Passion for AI/ML and ability to stay updated on latest advancements through conferences, publications, cohorts etc.Experience in consulting, sales engineering, and/or customer success.Comfortable in evangelizing and marketing ML/AI practice with internal teams, partners, and customers alike.  About UsSlalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com. Compensation and BenefitsSlalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The targeted base salary range for a Senior Principal for this position is $140,000 to $258,000 and the targeted base salary range for a Director is $161,000 to $307,000. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.    EEO and AccommodationsSlalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.We will accept applications until October 11th, 2024.