GSPANN - AI Practice Manager in Hyderabad, भारत

Job Description :Role : AI Practice ManagerResponsibilities :- Be the primary spokesperson for the solutions/applications being developed and liaison with the customer, providing capability demonstration.- Define and drive AI practice strategy including offerings, GTM approach, and capability roadmap.- Establish AI Center of Excellence (CoE) and governance frameworks.- Lead AI adoption initiatives across the organization by staying current with industry trends and enabling teams through webinars, trainings, and thought leadership content.- Provide guidance in domain aspects to the team.- Develop reusable AI accelerators, frameworks, and best practices.- Monitor industry trends and align practice with emerging AI technologies.- Ensure governance, quality, and delivery excellence across AI projects.- Work with SMEs (Architects, Development leads) to define best practices and benchmarks.- Drive pre-sales, solutioning, and client engagements.- Lead the proposals of assigned clients - presentations, scoping, estimating efforts etc.- Create SOWs with milestone plans, key deliverables, assumptions, commercials and dependencies etc and other such contractual artefacts.- Manage change request and scope creep.- Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned.- Manage P&L for projects ensuring margins and client SLAs are consistently met.- Create and implement strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget.- Ensure that team maintains high level of competence and operational excellence.- Publish status reports with metrics to internal and external stakeholders.- Proactively identify risks and issues on programs/projects and develop mitigation plans.- Account mining - Identify new service opportunities with clients and support sales team to close the deals effectively.- Thought leadership - identify business problems and come up with ideas to build solutions & frameworks to offer to various clients and monetize.- Generate and execute onboarding, trainings, KT and skill building plans.- Build and scale AI competencies across teams through hiring, training, and certifications.- Contribute to Initiatives like writing whitepapers, blogs, Point of Views.- Motivate and mentor team members.- Employee engagement - handle appraisals & https://jobeax.com/link/bzWJTTY74l4FJ82e Skills :- 20+ years of experience with 8+ years in leadership roles.- Strong experience in AI/GenAI solutioning and enterprise architecture.- Experience in understanding AI related use cases and developing as reusable product, accelerator.- Experience in programming language like Java, Spring Boot, Python etc.- Experience in any Cloud Platforms like, AWS, Azure, GCP.- Experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI.- Experience designing and developing AI Agents and Agentic Workflows.- Experience in LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar frameworks.- Good experience in leverage AI Assistants like Claude, Copilot, Cursor.- Proven track record of managing large scale multisite, multi brand, multi country eCommerce implementations.- Experience in B2B and B2C implementations is required.- Experience in eCommerce tools like SFCC (Demandware), Hybris, Magento etc.- Good knowledge/experience in PIM, DAM, CMS, Loyalty, OMS and other systems linked eCommerce.- Deep understanding of eCommerce flows, integrations with various internal and third-party systems.- Proven ability to enhance business ROI by leveraging AI-driven solutions.- Proven experience in delivering end-to-end solutions by effectively leveraging AI capabilities.- Experience in managing around 100 resources in a single account or multiple accounts.- Excellent understanding of industry proven design patterns and a problem solver.- Experience in Pre-Sales - defining end to end solution architecture covering technical, deployment architectures and non-functional & performance aspects.- Experience in building practices and managing large teams.- Strong knowledge of AI platforms and enterprise ecosystems.- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.- Strong understanding of KPIs that measure and demonstrate productivity improvements.- Experience in using estimation techniques like (Usecase, FP, Story points).- Experience in making presentations, demos to customers and internal management team.- Experience in pre-sales working on RFP / RFI and drive proposals.- Should have experience in driving org initiatives like creating case studies, writing white papers, blogs. (ref:hirist.tech)