We are a leading telecom and digital services provider, committed to enriching lives with a comprehensive portfolio of mobile, fixed broadband, entertainment services, and fintech solutions. Driven by the UAE’s ambition to lead tomorrow’s technologically driven world, we are heading the nation’s digital transformation and paving the way for a more interconnected and innovative future.
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The Director of Business AI is a critical leadership role within the company's AI Center of Excellence, responsible for shaping and executing a business-centric AI roadmap that delivers tangible impact. This role ensures the company captures transformative business value from AI by accelerating innovation, delivering measurable business outcomes, and embedding AI across business functions responsibly and effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a business-led AI roadmap in collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring rapid and impactful deployment of AI solutions across the company.
- Develop and operationalize new AI ideation or innovation processes, standards, and frameworks to streamline and accelerate AI solutioning.
- Partner closely with business domains to articulate problem statements, co-create AI use cases, and drive business value.
- Champion the translation of business needs into AI opportunities, ensuring each AI project delivers measurable outcomes and aligns with the company's strategic goals.
- Lead strategic AI partnerships, including sourcing, onboarding, and managing 3rd-party vendors and hyperscalers, ensuring solutions align with the company's innovation ambitions.
- Work closely with AI Solutioning and Governance teams to integrate ethical, regulatory, and commercial standards into business AI solutions.
- Oversee AI program financials, developing business cases, monitoring AI-related KPIs, and ensuring ROI tracking and reporting.
- Develop and execute an AI participation plan to ensure strong representation of the company in local and global forums, showcasing the company’s leadership in AI innovation and excellence.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
- Master’s degree in IT, AI Business Administration, Management, Strategy, or a related field from a leading institution.
- Preferably: Track record of continuous education/learning in areas such as big data, analytics, ICT, data science, ML, AI or digital transformation.
- 10+ years of a leading position, preferably in a large consulting company, corporate or in a Telco industry.
- Solid experience working with AI/ML product development lifecycles and delivering business-oriented AI solutions.
- Extensive experience managing strategic projects from ideation through execution.
- Strong experience in sourcing and managing technology vendors, including hyperscalers and ICT solution providers.
- Previous relevant work in Generative AI projects.
- Proven track record of developing and implementing innovative, high-impact business solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to champion and drive new technology adoption and innovation initiatives.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally, with excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills.
