Service Delivery Leader for AI-Led Digital Transformation

Aligned Automation

$150K — $180K *
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15-17 years in technology services or consulting
  • Expertise in customer-facing delivery leadership
  • Proven record managing multi-team portfolios
  • Strong knowledge of AI, GenAI, and automation
  • Experienced in solution design and engineering
  • Ability to convert business challenges into actionable solutions
  • Strong executive communication and facilitation skills

Responsibilities

  • Own execution, health, and outcomes of assigned customer portfolio
  • Act as onsite delivery lead and trusted customer interface
  • Translate business priorities into clear deliverables and milestones
  • Drive execution through distributed teams, ensuring quality and speed
  • Identify and resolve risks and delivery gaps proactively
  • Shape AI-led transformation opportunities and scalable solutions
  • Lead solution discovery, workshops, and architecture discussions

Benefits

  • Hands-on, execution-focused leadership role
  • Opportunity to directly influence delivery outcomes
  • Dynamic work environment at customer site
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Presales and Growth
  • Focus on measurable business value and transformation initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description
Service Delivery Leader for AI-Led Digital Transformation (Solution Engineering & Delivery Ownership)

Experience: 15-17 years
Location: Customer Site - Austin

We are seeking a seasoned Service Delivery Leader for AI-Led Digital Transformation to own a customer delivery portfolio and serve as the key onsite interface between customer stakeholders and distributed delivery teams.

Reporting into Delivery Operations, this role operates across Customer Delivery, Solution Engineering, AI/Data, Architecture, Presales, and Growth functions.

The primary accountability is delivery and value realization-translating customer priorities into executable plans, shaping solution designs, mobilizing capabilities, and driving initiatives to measurable business outcomes.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused leadership role, with strong emphasis on building solutions and driving delivery rather than coordination or governance.

Key Responsibilities

1. Customer Delivery & Portfolio Leadership - Primary Accountability

  • Own execution, health, and outcomesof the assigned customer portfolio.
  • Act as onsite delivery lead andtrusted customer interface.
  • Translate priorities into cleardeliverables, plans, milestones, owners, and outcomes.
  • Drive execution through distributedteams ensuring quality, speed, and commitment adherence.
  • Identify and resolve risks,dependencies, and delivery gaps proactively.
  • Improve productivity, quality,automation, and cost efficiency.
  • Ensure rapid conversion of customerfeedback into delivery actions.

2. AI-Led Digital Transformation & Solution Design

  • Identify and shape AI-ledtransformation opportunities across the portfolio.
  • Translate business problems into scalablesolution designs using GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, data, andanalytics.
  • Lead solution discovery, workshops,architecture discussions, and blueprinting.
  • Build transformation roadmapslinking business goals, architecture, delivery, and value realization.
  • Drive lifecycle: discovery →design → PoC → implementation → adoption → value realization.
  • Ensure solutions are viable,scalable, and outcome-aligned.

3. Solution Engineering, Presales & Growth Support

  • Lead solution engineering betweencustomers and delivery teams.
  • Develop solution concepts,architectures, POVs, business cases, roadmaps, and SOW inputs.
  • Partner with Presales, Sales, andDelivery leadership on new opportunities.
  • Identify growth opportunities fromdelivery insights.
  • Support RFPs, proposals, workshops,estimations, and presentations.
  • Convert delivery success intoreusable solutions and new business opportunities.

4. Customer Integration & Executive Stakeholder Management

  • Bridge onsite customer stakeholdersand distributed delivery teams.
  • Translate decisions, priorities,and expectations into execution plans.
  • Ensure risks, constraints, andrecommendations are clearly communicated.
  • Drive a high-velocity operatingmodel converting discussions into actions and timelines.
  • Align Delivery, AI/Data,Architecture, Presales, and Growth teams.
  • Build credibility through deliveryoutcomes and solution expertise.
  • Lead executive discussions onprogress, risks, and value realization.
  • Present roadmaps, solutions, andbusiness cases to senior leadership.

Deliverable-Oriented Leadership

Success in this role is defined by what is designed, delivered, and the value created.

Key outputs include:

  • AI / Agentic AI use-case portfolios
  • Solution architectures andblueprints
  • Transformation roadmaps
  • POVs and PoCs
  • AI / automation business cases
  • Operating model transformationplans
  • Implementation and scaling plans
  • SOW and proposal inputs
  • Executive readouts and valuerealization plans
  • New transformation opportunities

The role requires hands-on ownership of these deliverables while leveraging distributed teams for scale.

Required Experience & Capabilities

  • 15-17 years in technology services,consulting, or digital delivery.
  • Strong customer-facing deliveryleadership in enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience managingmulti-team portfolios.
  • Strong understanding of AI,GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, data, analytics, and cloud.
  • Demonstrated strength in solutiondesign and engineering.
  • Ability to convert businessproblems into executable solutions.
  • Experience withdistributed/offshore delivery models.
  • Strong executive communication andfacilitation skills.
  • Commercial understanding of SOWs,estimation, and value realization.

What Differentiates the Candidate

This role is not suited for traditional account managers or coordination-focused profiles.

We are looking for someone who can:

Understand → Design → Build → Mobilize → Deliver → Realize Value

The ideal candidate will be equally strong in executive engagement, solution design, delivery execution, and end-to-end outcome ownership.

A builder mindset, strong delivery ownership, solution depth, and bias for outcomes are essential.

Success Measures

  • Delivery performance and customersatisfaction
  • Portfolio health and executionoutcomes
  • Transformation initiatives launchedand scaled
  • AI-driven productivity and businessvalue realization
  • Speed and quality of solutiondesign
  • Conversion of ideas into execution
  • Growth from delivery-ledopportunities
  • Adoption of AI-native deliverymodels
  • Quality of customer-facingdeliverables
  • Executive stakeholder confidence
  • End-to-end value realization fromproblem to outcome

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