Go-To-Market Data & AI Leader (Media & Entertainment)

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$233K/yr – $319K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive data architecture and AI-led solutions as a Director/Sr. Director, shaping proposals, delivery excellence, and client outcomes.

  • Own strategic solutioning, SOWs, and client engagements to grow data and AI opportunities.
  • Requires 15+ years in consulting leadership with Databricks/Snowflake and cloud data services.
  • Biggest signal: revenue scope of $2.5M–$5M+ and leadership across delivery teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Solutioning: Develop compelling proposals, presentations, and statements of work (SOW) to drive business growth. Identify opportunities for Slalom in data and AI, both in existing and new environments.
  • Architectural Excellence: Lead the modern data architecture pillar (Databricks and/or Snowflake) ensuring excellence in delivery, sales, people management, and operations.
  • Subject Matter Expertise: Engage with clients, influence executives, and drive customer-focused solutions. Leverage your deep understanding of data and intelligence to deliver value.
  • Data and AI Thought Leader: Serve as a data and AI thought leader by speaking at external events and partnering with marketing to create and lead thought leadership events.
  • Financial Insights: Conduct TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment) analyses to guide technical decisions.
  • Platform Design: Architect, design, and develop end-to-end data and analytic platforms (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes, ML models) using cloud services.
  • Revenue Impact: $2.5M - $5M+ (*varies based on Director/Sr. Director)
  • Utilization: 25% - 45% (*varies based on Director/Sr. Director)

Requirements

  • 15+ years in consulting leadership, with at least 5+ years specializing in data architecture and engineering solutions within cloud environments
  • Experience with Databricks or Snowflake is required; additional experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP data services is preferred
  • Strong background in data modeling, data pipeline development and DevOps + CI/CD
  • AI/GenAI/ML proficiency is a huge plus
  • Industry Expertise: strong data background within Media, Entertainment, Gaming and/or Sports industries
  • Technical Consulting Sales: 7-10 years of leading technical pursuits, with proven success partnering with sales and consulting leaders to craft custom technical data solutions for clients
  • Activator Mindset: ownership, curiosity, and persistence to proactively identify, pursue, and develop opportunities
  • Drive Outcomes: shape solutions with clients that focus on business outcomes and impact
  • Exceptional Communication: ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Business Development: track record of growing existing client relationships and expanding new accounts
  • Cloud Expertise: deep familiarity with cloud platform analytics services, including storage, permissions, private cloud, databases, virtual machines, and parallel processing technologies

Nice To Have

  • Travel up to 10-20% as needed

Benefits

  • meaningful time off and paid holidays
  • parental leave
  • 401(k) with a match
  • a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage
  • adoption and fertility assistance
  • short/long-term disability
  • yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses
  • discounted home, auto, and pet insurance
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Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. We team with leaders who expect more. So we bring more.From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 53 offices in 12 countries collaborate with you to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products, services, and businesses to life. Every day, we work at the forefront of industry, combining our deep roots in technology and data, to help you tackle challenges, improve operations, and drive sustainable growth. It’s why we are trusted by leaders across the majority of the Global 1000, many of the world’s most successful enterprise, mid-market, and emerging companies, and more than 500 high-impact public sector agencies, foundations, and universities.We lead with a balance of heart and practicality, curiosity and agility, local soul and global expertise. That means understanding your culture, goals, organization, and customers. That means being tireless problem solvers. And that means always standing by you as your trusted advisor, respectful challenger, and unwavering champion.Even our partnerships are built different. For more than 20 years, we've sought out and made strategic investments in the world’s emerging and leading technology platforms. Our 360-degree relationships with these innovators, built on mutual trust and respect, has cemented our position as a premier (and often first) partner of choice. We work together as one to offer tailored solutions that unlock the full potential of these technologies.At Slalom, we bring more day-one advantages, more connections and breakthroughs, more doing the right thing, more care for you and your team, and more return on your investment. So that together, we can dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

Founded in 2001
Seattle, Washington, USA
10K employees (706 in marketing)
63% recommend to a friend
65% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
205.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$17.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.1%
Direct
53.9%
Referral
7.6%
Social
10.6%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
148 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$1.7M
Last Raise
$1.7M
Series Unknown, 13 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2013
    Series Unknown • $1.7M

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