[Hiring] Director, AI & Data Programs @BCD

Role Description

We are hiring a Director, AI & Data Programs to lead the company-wide rollout of our Databricks platform across Advito, BCD Travel's consulting group. This role leads a significant program that impacts how every team at Advito works with data.

• Own the company-wide program to make Databricks the standard platform for data, analytics, and AI across Advito, including scope, roadmap, sequencing, and timing.
• Set up and run the program with an integrated plan, risk and dependency tracking, and a regular steering meeting with executive sponsors.
• Run change management as its own workstream: stakeholder mapping, communications, training, and a plain explanation for each team of what changes for them.
• Track adoption with real measures, such as active users and time to insight, and adjust the plan when the numbers call for it.
• Maintain one view of every AI and data initiative in the department, with status, owners, dependencies, dates, and budget.
• Run intake and prioritization so new ideas get a fair look and a quick yes, no, or later.
• Know the work well enough to question it: read a prototype, push on an architecture choice, test a vendor claim.
• Help set standards for AI in production, covering accuracy testing, human review, monitoring, cost, and Responsible AI.
• Own the operating rhythm of the Data & AI function, including planning cycles, objectives, and executive reporting.
• Support budget tracking, business cases, and partner and vendor relationships alongside the Head of Product.
• Lead a small team of data, AI, and analytics practitioners, with clear ownership and regular coaching.
• Report to executives and stakeholders clearly and honestly, including when something is behind.

Qualifications

• You've led a company-wide platform program.
• You've run a large change across several business units or functions (a data platform migration, an enterprise analytics rollout) and can show how adoption went after go-live. Databricks experience is a strong plus.
• You run a tight program: planning, governance, risk management, and follow-through come naturally to you.
• Several years leading enterprise-level programs with their own budget, multiple vendor partners, and executive sponsors.
• Formal change management experience, with communication, training, and champion programs you've measured the results of.
• Experience working with offshore or nearshore development partners.
• Experience managing people, including technical practitioners.
• Strong stakeholder management across a matrixed, global organization, including people who don't report to you.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, technical, or business field, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Databricks certification, or hands-on experience with Unity Catalog and platform governance.
• Domain experience in corporate travel, T&E, procurement, payments, or B2B spend data.
• Experience developing managers as well as individual contributors.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home or remote opportunities.
• Opportunities to grow your skillset and career.
• Work at the forefront of travel technology and help shape the future of business travel.
• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge.
• A compensation package that feels fair to you, including mental, physical, and financial wellbeing tools.
• Travel industry professional perks and discounts.
• An inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated.
• Work From Anywhere opportunity for 60 days per year.