About the Role
Faculty is seeking a Customer Director to lead its Professional Services practice, defining and growing its presence in the sector. This role involves shaping go-to-market strategy, building senior stakeholder relationships, and leading AI transformation programs. It offers an opportunity to build a distinctive practice within a company focused on AI innovation.
Responsibilities
- Leading complex AI transformation programmes for major professional services firms, moving from strategic thinking to production-grade software delivery
- Building trusted, long-term relationships with C-suite leaders and partners, acting as a strategic advisor on how AI can automate knowledge work and drive operational efficiency
- Generating high-value growth for Faculty by shaping compelling commercial pitches and demos that showcase our technical depth and ability to solve sector-specific challenges
- Elevating Faculty’s industry profile by articulating differentiated propositions and points of view through thought leadership, media engagement, and industry forums
- Ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality client work by guiding multidisciplinary teams and helping them navigate the ambiguity and pace of the sector
- Managing a practice within a practice - leading cross-functional teams of delivery experts, PhD-calibre engineers and data scientists to further consolidate Faculty’s reputation for pioneering technical and delivery excellence.
Requirements
- Possess a distinct point of view on how professional services should adopt AI and a clear vision of how agentic applications will reshape legal, accounting, finance, managed services, and other professional services models
- Bring deep knowledge of the professional services landscape, gained either inside a professional services, a BPO organisation, or as a consultant advising those sectors
- Have led complex transformation programmes involving organisational change and technology delivery in areas such as IT managed services, Finance, HR operations, legal services, or other B2B functions
- Commercially driven - energised by hitting growth targets with a proven track record of shaping opportunities, winning work, and owning meaningful revenue responsibility
- A compelling communicator who builds trust quickly with senior stakeholders and possesses the clarity to explain complex AI technologies to non-technical audiences
- Exhibit a leadership mindset that balances executive-level strategy with a hands-on approach to unblocking teams, challenging work constructively, and maintaining high quality
Skills
- AI transformation
- Agentic AI
- Commercial strategy
- Stakeholder relationship management
- AI technology
- Team leadership
- Thought leadership
Location
- Hybrid Working
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
- Private healthcare and dental
- Enhanced parental leave
- Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
- Sanctus Coaching
About the Company
- Faculty was established in 2014 with the belief that AI is the most important technology of our time.
- Faculty has worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI.
- Faculty innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI that makes a significant impact.
- Faculty possesses unparalleled technical, product, and delivery expertise.
- Faculty serves clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defence sectors.
- Faculty's business and reputation are growing rapidly.
- Faculty seeks individuals with intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
- Faculty empowers employees to envision and implement powerful AI applications.
- The Professional and Financial Services Business unit applies over a decade of Applied AI experience to help clients navigate a changing landscape.
- This unit develops and embeds AI solutions to improve efficiency, enhance customer experience, and identify commercial opportunities in uncertain markets.
- Faculty sees immense opportunity for innovation within highly regulated industries, setting a standard for marrying technical excellence with safe, impactful deployment.
Equal Opportunity
- Faculty aims to grow the best team, not the most similar one, recognizing that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought.
- Diversity strengthens the principle of seeking truth, and diverse teams deliver better work.
- The team is united by deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to use abilities for measurable positive impact.
- Applications are strongly encouraged from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations.
- The company is open to conversations about part-time hours.
