Senior Director, Data & AI Advisory

We are seeking a Sr. Director, Data & AI Advisory to lead Acxiom’s Data & AI Advisory team within the broader Data & AI Services practice. This role is for a senior consulting leader who can advise clients on how to turn customer data, identity, platforms, analytics, and AI into measurable business value while helping scale a growing advisory business. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, lead complex consulting engagements, and own day-to-day leadership of a portfolio of advisory and delivery-oriented offerings. Success requires the ability to shape the market story, sell the work, guide multidisciplinary teams, and translate strategic ambition into practical roadmaps, operating models, implementation plans, and value cases. This is not a purely conceptual strategy role. The right candidate will understand how data strategy, platform modernization, identity, governance, activation, measurement, and AI enablement come together in real marketing and customer engagement environments. They will be expected to structure and sell offerings, lead delivery, mentor team members, develop reusable methods, and ensure our recommendations are commercially relevant, technically grounded, and executable. SPONSORSHIP NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION What You Will Do   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 how to use 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.   What You Will Have   8+ years of professional experience in consulting or professional services, with a focus on data strategy, marketing transformation, analytics, AI, data management, technology advisory, or related fields.   Bachelors Degree Required - Masters Preferred Proven experience leading client-facing consulting engagements end to end, including discovery, assessment, strategy, roadmap, executive presentation, and implementation planning.   Experience developing, packaging, selling, and leading consulting offerings or repeatable service propositions, including sales enablement, scoping, proposal development, and value articulation.   Strong understanding of customer data as a strategic asset in marketing and customer engagement, including first-party data, identity, segmentation, activation, measurement, and personalization.   Working knowledge of modern data and marketing ecosystems, including cloud data platforms, CDPs, CRM, activation platforms, journey orchestration, clean rooms, and measurement tools.   Practical understanding of AI and analytics use cases, including how data readiness, governance, workflow integration, operating model design, and adoption affect value realization.   Working awareness of data governance, data quality, data cataloging, privacy-by-design, consent management, and responsible AI considerations, with the ability to involve