Job Description:

This person will serve at the intersection of technical excellence and client partnership: delivering AI-powered solutions helping clients understand whats possible and shaping how our practice evolves as technology does.

Client Engagement & Consulting

• Partner with clients to understand their business processes pain points and strategic goals translating those into actionable AI solution designs.
• Support discovery sessions workshops and working sessions with stakeholders at varying levels of technical fluency.
• Communicate AI capabilities and limitations clearly helping clients set realistic expectations and build confidence in new approaches.
• Become a trusted advisor not just a vendor for the clients you work with.

Solution Design & Development

• Build and deploy AI solutions across internal tooling and client-facing projects from MVPs to production-grade systems.
• Architect and implement agentic workflows designing systems where AI models reason plan and act autonomously or semi-autonomously across multi-step tasks.
• Identify opportunities to augment or replace manual processes with intelligent automation including LLM pipelines RAG systems tool-use agents and orchestration layers.
• Iterate on existing solutions based on usage data client feedback and the evolving capabilities of the underlying models.

Forward-Looking Practice Development

• Stay at the leading edge of AI research and tooling evaluating new models frameworks and paradigms as they emerge in compliance with Merkle standards.
• Translate emerging capabilities into concrete recommendations for clients and internal teams: whats ready now whats worth watching and whats overhyped.
• Contribute to internal knowledge-sharing documentation and the development of reusable patterns and accelerators.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Python and experience building with LLM APIs (OpenAI Anthropic etc.)
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks
• Comfort working across the full development lifecycle: scoping building testing deploying and iterating
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and modern deployment practices

Consulting & Communication Skills

• Ability to present ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong written communication
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you can structure a fuzzy problem propose a direction and build toward it
• Client empathy you listen before you prescribe and know when to push back constructively

Mindset

• Curiosity-driven: you follow whats new in AI not because you have to but because you genuinely want to know
• Ownership mentality: you treat client problems like your own and see things through
• Collaborative: you make the people around you better and enjoy figuring things out as a team
• Adaptable: youre comfortable operating at different altitudes strategic thinking one day hands-on debugging the next

At dentsu we believe great work happens when were connected. Our hybrid way of working combines remote flexibility with regular in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Many of our employees who live within commuting distance (90 minutes) from one of our Headquarter or Hub Offices (New York Chicago Detroit Los Angeles) are required to work in the office 2-3 days per week including one Team Day. The minimum number of days may vary by office and role. Dentsu may designate other HQ or Hub offices at any time. Those who do not live near an office may be designated as a remote employee depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location we expect you to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients which may include attendance in an office from time to time.

The annual salary range for this position is $51000 - $83088. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience knowledge skills and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical vision and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave and
• Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits including but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits please visit .

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