Job Description:

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Capabilities:

- Proven experience owning or leading a P&L-backed; analytics / AI practice

- Strong background in analytics, decision science, or applied AI

- Hands-on exposure to Gen AI systems (LLMs, orchestration, model integration)

- Experience building AI solutions for marketing, creative, media, or commerce

- Ability to sell, solution, deliver, and scale—not just advise

- Comfort operating in ambiguity: you can seek, solve, sell, and ship

Engineering & Technical Depth:

- Strong engineering mindset (even if you no longer code daily)

- Experience with modern AI/data stacks

- GCP preferred (BigQuery, Vertex AI, etc.), but not mandatory

- Understanding of:

- LLMs and multimodal models

- AI orchestration and production deployment

- Data pipelines, analytics layers, and performance systems

- Knows the difference between demos, pilots, and production systems





Creative & Media Adjacency:

- Genuine understanding of creative workflows and media ecosystems

- Experience applying AI to:

- Creative operations and content pipelines

- Media planning, optimization, and insights

- Commerce and marketplace media

- Able to collaborate seamlessly with creative, media, and strategy teams

Leadership & Mindset:

- Builder mentality with commercial sharpness

- Comfortable being accountable for numbers, not just ideas

- Explicit communicator who can translate AI into business outcomes

- Bias for action, moves fast, learns fast, delivers faster

Location:

DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

📌 AI Transformation Leader (India)
🏢 dentsu
📍 India