Head of AI Product & Architecture Consulting
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Job Location:
Atlanta, GA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Were hiring a Head of AI Product & Architecture Consulting!
Employment Type: Full-Time/Direct Hire
Location: Richmond VA Atlanta GA Washington DC New York City & Charlotte NC Metro Areas
Location Type: Hybrid - 1-2 days onsite per week - Home Office/Local Ippon office
About Ippon:
The Ippon story started in 2002 in Paris France - cue in the accordion. Our founder and CEO Stéphane Nomis used his unique experience as an international Judo champion to create a culture based on the sports values of ambition and excellence. Our USA Headquarters office is located in Richmond VA with additional offices in New York NY Washington DC and Atlanta GA. We are a technology consulting firm that specializes in helping accelerate our clients digital roadmap in the areas of Product Management Cloud DevOps Data AI and Software Engineering. Expanding partnerships is the top priority in our strategy and we are proud to be a Premier Snowflake Partner and an Advanced AWS Partner. Ippon stands out through its financial services industry expertise technical excellence and a distinctive coaching mindset.
About the position:
The Practice Head of AI Product & Architecture will lead Ippons APA practice combining deep expertise in software development product engineering agile delivery architecture and applied AI. This role is responsible for growing a high-performing consulting team shaping the practices methods and offerings and ensuring delivery excellence across complex client engagements.
The ideal candidate is a proven leader with strong consulting instincts and a track record of delivering meaningful technology outcomes. They bring deep grounding in modern engineering practices and software craft alongside hands-on AI experience applied practically across product development software delivery customer experiences and enterprise operations.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Practice Leadership & Team Development
Lead and grow the practice across people offerings delivery standards and market positioning.
Continuously improve consulting methods delivery playbooks technical standards and ways of working in collaboration with Customer Success and Senior Leadership.
Build a strong team culture grounded in software craft product thinking architectural discipline and practical AI adoption with an emphasis on psychological safety accountability and measurable improvement.
Recruit develop coach and retain high-performing consultants engineers architects product leaders and delivery practitioners.
Delivery Excellence
Provide senior oversight across client engagements involving software development product engineering AI-enabled delivery modernization and architecture.
Ensure solutions are maintainable secure scalable and aligned to client outcomes promoting modern practices such as continuous delivery test automation observability and platform thinking.
Use metrics such as DORA flow metrics and business outcome measures to drive evidence-based improvement.
Help clients adopt flexible sustainable delivery models that balance speed governance quality and business value coaching cross-functional teams on effective collaboration across product engineering architecture security and compliance.
AI Leadership
In collaboration with the CTO shape APAs approach to applied AI across product engineering software development architecture and delivery transformation.
Help clients identify and pursue practical AI use cases that improve delivery speed product quality customer experience or operational efficiency.
Guide teams in the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools agentic workflows and intelligent applications with clear understanding of associated risks including governance security privacy and regulatory considerations.
Partner with Ippons data and cloud leaders to connect APAs AI capabilities with strengths in AWS Snowflake and data architecture.
Client and Thought Leadership
Support sales pursuits proposals and executive conversations translating ambiguous client needs into clear engagement strategies delivery plans and measurable outcomes.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders at the intersection of product engineering architecture data cloud AI and governance.
Define and package APA offerings across AI-enabled product engineering software modernization delivery effectiveness and engineering excellence.
Drive brand awareness through thought leadership initiatives including events blogs white papers and client success stories.
Competencies we are looking for:
Minimum Qualifications:
5 years of consulting experience
5 years of experience leading software engineering product engineering architecture or technology consulting teams.
5 years of experience building managing coaching and growing high-performing technical teams.
7 years of experience and deep understanding of modern software development practices including software architecture software craft DevOps CI/CD testing strategies and cloud-native delivery.
7 years of experience with product development and product-oriented ways of working.
Strong working knowledge of agile delivery practices with the judgment to adapt methods to fit client context rather than applying process mechanically.
Hands-on experience with AI tools AI-enabled software development intelligent applications or applied enterprise AI use cases.
7 years of experience in financial services banking insurance capital markets or related regulated industries
Excellent organizational skills including the ability to manage people priorities offerings delivery quality and practice operations simultaneously.
Strong client-facing communication skills including the ability to engage credibly with executives product leaders engineering leaders architects and delivery teams.
Experience supporting business development proposal creation solution design or account growth in a consulting environment.
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
Experience leading a consulting practice capability center of excellence or large technology delivery organization.
Experience using DORA metrics SPACE flow metrics or other engineering effectiveness frameworks to improve delivery performance.
Experience with AI-assisted development tools agentic workflows LLM-enabled applications or enterprise AI governance.
Familiarity with AWS Snowflake modern data platforms and cloud-native architecture.
Experience with modernization programs legacy system transformation platform engineering or large-scale digital product delivery.
Experience creating market-facing offerings white papers executive presentations workshops and assessment frameworks.
Understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA) within the Financial Services and Insurance industries.
Knowledge of IT strategy and management
Demonstrated experience of presenting talks at conferences publishing white papers and public speaking.
What we offer:
Competitive salary Great starting salaries for well qualified candidates
Generous Paid Time Off policy - Ippon offers flexible time off to help you be your best
Health dental and vision insurance We are dedicated to helping our employees live healthier lives through comprehensive health programs
401k with company match - Ippon offers an industry leading 401(k) matching plan
Family Leave - We support the importance of family and offer maternity paternity and family medical leave plans
The chance to work in a startup-esque environment with a fun smart and healthy work environment focused on our values teamwork and 5406 custom Slack emojis
We value the diversity and different perspectives each of our employees bring to Ippon Technologies.
Ippon Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin veteran or disability status.
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