CPGR Growth Leader, AI Engineering, Strategic Accounts (AI)

Location: New York City, NY or Chicago, IL; onsite. Willingness to travel to client locations as required. Immigration sponsorship is not available at this time.

Starting base salary: $220,000, with potential for a higher base depending on experience, skills, and fit; performance-based bonus tied to new client acquisition and project growth.

Company

hirify.global is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies, helping enterprises combine human judgment with intelligent systems.

What you will do

• Own the AI Engineering growth agenda, qualified pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, and expansion across strategic accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, business presidents, and senior technology leaders, leading executive briefings, innovation sessions, assessments, and co-creation workshops.
• Originate and shape transformation opportunities across data-platform and cloud modernization, AI/ML engineering, GenAI, agentic AI, software engineering, intelligent operations, and enterprise automation.
• Translate current-state technology estates and business ambitions into multi-year roadmaps, target architectures, sequenced value cases, investment cases, and governance models.
• Lead complex pursuits from qualification through solution architecture, proposal, value engineering, commercial negotiations, closure, mobilization, and critical delivery milestones.
• Orchestrate consulting, AI, data, cloud, product, design, engineering, and technology-partner teams while developing reusable propositions, reference architectures, and pursuit assets.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in technology consulting, digital engineering, data and AI services, or enterprise transformation, including significant responsibility for growth in large strategic accounts.
• Demonstrated success originating, shaping, and winning complex multi-million-dollar or multi-year transformation programs with enterprise clients.
• Established credibility with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and senior business leaders, with the ability to challenge constructively and build consensus.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, data platforms and Lakehouse patterns, APIs and integration, microservices, DevSecOps, platform engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, and legacy transformation.
• Working depth in applied AI, GenAI, agentic systems, RAG, model and data engineering, AI governance, and secure and reliable production deployment.
• Ability to connect technical architecture and engineering choices to business outcomes, operating-model change, adoption, and quantified value cases.
• Strong commercial acumen across opportunity qualification, deal strategy, pricing, contracting, negotiation, risk management, and portfolio economics.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams through influence in a matrixed organization.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, storytelling, and written proposal skills for business and technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Industry experience in CPG, Retail, or another data-intensive enterprise sector.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans effective from the first day.
• Company 401(k) plan eligibility after 30 days of employment.
• 11 paid holidays and 12 weeks of parental leave.
• Free-time PTO policy providing flexibility for sick time and vacation.
• Performance-based bonus tied to sales goals for new client acquisition and project growth.