AI/ Artificial Intelligence Practice Manager
Experience: 20+ Years
Locations: Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Noida, Pune, Bangalore
Responsibilities
Be the primary spokesperson for the solutions/ applications being developed and liaison with the customer, providing capability demonstration.
Define and drive AI practice strategy including offerings, GTM approach, and capability roadmap
Establish AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and governance frameworks
Lead AI adoption initiatives across the organization by staying current with industry trends and enabling teams through webinars, trainings, and thought leadership content
Provide guidance in domain aspects to the team
Develop reusable AI accelerators, frameworks, and best practices
Monitor industry trends and align practice with emerging AI technologies
Ensure governance, quality, and delivery excellence across AI projects
Work with SMEs (Architects, Development leads) to define best practices and benchmarks
Drive pre-sales, solutioning, and client engagements
Lead the proposals of assigned clients - presentations, scoping,
estimating efforts etc
Create SOW’s with milestone plans, key deliverables, assumptions, commercials and dependencies etc and other such contractual artefacts.
Manage change request and scope creep
Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned
Manage P&L; for projects ensuring margins and client SLAs are consistently met
Create and implement strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget
Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.
Publish status reports with metrics to internal and external stakeholders
Proactively identify risks and issues on programs/projects and develop mitigation plans
Account mining - Identify current service opportunities with clients and support sales team to close the deals effectively
Thought leadership - identify business problems and come up with ideas to build solutions & frameworks to offer to various clients and moneti