Senior Director, AI Services

Frontier is seeking a director to lead our rapidly growing AI practice. The senior director reports directly to our CEO and is responsible for developing new business, managing relationships with existing clients, leading our team of talented engineers and advisors, and pioneering new capability development. We are seeking an experienced leader and creative problem solver who is passionate about serving mission-driven clients and expanding our impact.

Frontier Design partners with brave leaders to imagine and build what’s next across the U.S. Government, with leading AI labs, for Fortune 500 firms, and in partnership with non-profits, universities and foundations. We build:

• Secure and responsible AI models
• Measurable impact for mission-driven organizations
• Learning and development experiences that transform organizations, and
• Data tools that surface actionable insight

Helping Frontier AI labs and other mission-driven organizations understand the risks of their deployments, ranging from potentially catastrophic consequences (e.g., biological weapons risk), to user-centered risk (e.g., poor user experiences with an AI tool undermining an organization’s mission).

We specialize in sourcing, recording, and transcribing speech and text in 250+ languages, including rare and endangered languages with limited digital presence. We also design and execute human annotation workflows to evaluate model-generated translations, including fluency, equivalence, and contextual relevance.

We partner with organizations to increase AI adoption and upskill work forces to leverage AI tools for maximum impact.

Our interdisciplinary team is creative and analytical, combining our expertise as engineers, designers, evaluators, strategists, innovators and storytellers. We believe in delivering radical value, delighting our clients with exceptional quality and wowing them with our cost-effectiveness. Our company culture sets us apart from our peers, unleashing colleagues to be their best selves – bold, empowered leaders with a lot of heart!

See our values for more details.

We work globally and locally in the U.S., with a wide variety of world class organizations across industries including federal and state governments, non-profit organizations, academia, foundations and the private sector. While headquartered in Alexandria, VA, our organizational construct is largely “virtual”, which offers us the opportunity to employ remarkable talent regardless of physical location. For team members in the Washington, DC area, we utilize shared office spaces for in-person meetings as needed.

The Senior Director will be responsible for leading and growing Frontier’s AI and Emerging Tech Practice (Frontier AI). They will report directly to the CEO and COO/CFO.

This director would serve as an experienced leader and creative consultant on our team of management consultants, designers, policy advisors, researchers, and organizational coaches. We are growing quickly and seek an experienced problem solver who can immediately jump into a variety of projects across Frontier’s diverse client base.

Primary responsibilities include growing the AI and technology business; ensuring the successful delivery of existing work and follow-on contracts to include managing strategic partnerships, hiring personnel, managing P&L and developing the team.

• Growing the AI and technology business.
• Responsible for strategic partnerships and hiring.
• Responsible for managing P&L.
• Developing strategic plans and business development roadmaps for Frontier AI.

• Ensuring the successful delivery of existing work and follow-on contracts.
• Leading the delivery…