Senior Director, Data & AI Advisory

Overview

We are seeking a Sr. Director, Data & AI Advisory to lead Acxiom’s Data & AI Advisory team within the broader Data & AI Services practice. The role is a senior consulting leader who advises clients on turning customer data, identity, platforms, analytics, and AI into measurable business value while scaling a growing advisory business. The director serves as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leads complex consulting engagements, and owns day‑to‑day leadership of a portfolio of advisory and delivery‑oriented offerings.

• Advisory & Engagement Leadership
  • Lead Data & AI Advisory engagements from opportunity shaping through discovery, current‑state assessment, future‑state design, roadmap development, and executive readout.
  • Serve as the senior day‑to‑day advisory lead for clients, building trusted relationships with marketing, data, technology, analytics, operations, privacy and executive stakeholders.
  • Translate complex business challenges into clear data, AI, analytics, governance, identity and technology strategies tied to measurable outcomes.
  • Structure ambiguous problems into workplans, hypotheses, stakeholder sessions, deliverables, decision points and actionable recommendations.
• Offering Leadership & Commercial Growth
  • Lead and evolve a portfolio of Data & AI Advisory offerings across strategy, readiness, platform improvement, identity enablement, activation, measurement and value realization.
  • Support business development through opportunity qualification, solution shaping, proposal writing, pitch development, scope definition, estimation and delivery model design.
  • Develop repeatable playbooks, sales enablement materials, assessment frameworks, workshop formats, delivery standards and accelerators that improve quality and scalability.
• Data, AI & Marketing Transformation Strategy
  • Advise clients on using first‑, second‑ and third‑party data as strategic assets for customer understanding, marketing effectiveness, personalization, measurement and growth.
  • Assess client maturity across data strategy, platform utilization, identity resolution, consent management, governance, data quality, analytics, activation, measurement and AI readiness.
  • Develop future‑state recommendations across operating model, capability gaps, data flows, functional architecture, governance, measurement, business case and implementation sequencing.
  • Guide clients on responsible and effective AI adoption, including use case prioritization, data readiness, workflow integration, governance, change management and value realization.
• Solutioning, Delivery & Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with solution architects, data engineers, data scientists, analysts, product owners, experience strategists and technology partners to ensure strategy is grounded in delivery reality.
  • Deliver executive‑ready artifacts such as maturity assessments, use case portfolios, gap analyses, future‑state designs, data flows, solution concepts, RACIs, business cases and phased roadmaps.
  • Bridge strategy and implementation by clarifying scope, sequencing, dependencies, success metrics, delivery roles, risks and decision rights.
• Team Leadership & Practice Development
  • Provide day‑to‑day leadership, mentorship and coaching to Data & AI Advisory consultants, strategists and analysts.
  • Shape staffing plans, delivery roles, quality standards, reusable methods and development paths for the advisory team.
  • Translate practice goals into tactical actions and ensure progress against priorities.
  • Support the practice leader in scaling the broader practice by identifying talent needs, capability gaps, offering opportunities and operational improvements.

• 8+ years of professional experience in consulting or professional services focused on data strategy, marketing transformation, analytics, AI, data management, technology advisory or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Master’s preferred.
• Proven experience leading client‑facing consulting engagements end to end – discovery, assessment, strategy, roadmap, executive presentation and implementation planning.
• Experience developing, packaging, selling and leading consulting offerings or…