# Director of Enterprise AI and Data Strategy at Thoughtworks

- Company: Thoughtworks
- Status: Closed
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Skills: 1Y_UKHLD SL DATA
- Apply: https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/jobs/8210552?gh_jid=8210552

## Description

We are looking for a Director-level Market Lead to head our Data & AI practice in the UK & Ireland. This is a hybrid leadership role. You combine deep technical solutioning with real commercial skill, and you are credible both in an architecture debate and across the table from a CDO, CIO or CFO.
 Our delivery model is shifting from large time-and-materials teams to small, AI-first pods working against a business outcome. As Market Lead, you will shape how we take that model to UKI clients: what we sell, how we price it, and how we staff and deliver it. You will lead a core team of 5–6 direct reports and a wider matrix of around 50-75 people across UKI, and you will help them build the skills this shift requires. We are developing these ways of working together.
 Job responsibilities
• The successful candidate is a true dual-threat practitioner, equally at home in a complex architecture discussion and in closing a large commercial deal.
• Drive commercial success on complex Data & AI deals across UKI, from shaping the opportunity through to a signed deal. This includes structuring fixed-price and outcome-linked commercial models, and understanding delivery cost, margin and risk.
• Partner with tech advisory and industry domain leads from pre-sale through delivery, so the commercial story, the architecture and the sector insight reinforce one another.
• Frame and test business-outcome hypotheses with executives, and define thin slices of delivery that prove value quickly.
• You stay close enough to delivery to know what is realistic, and you share accountability for outcomes

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