AI & Analytics Pre-Sales Lead

Job Title: AI & Analytics Pre-Sales Lead (Sr. Director / AVP) | Manufacturing & AgTech | Eastern US

Location: [East Cost] | Type: [Full-time] | Travel: about 30%

We are hiring for our client, a global digital products and AI services firm, to fill a senior pre-sales leader role in its AI & Analytics practice. You will own the technical win for Manufacturing and AgTech accounts across the eastern US. That means discovery, solution shaping, proposals and win strategy.

What you will do

• Lead technical pre-sales for AI & Analytics deals
• Build demos, prototypes and PoCs yourself using generative and agentic AI
• Advise client executives on AI adoption and data-platform modernization
• Shape vertical offerings, IP and reusable accelerators
• Lead proposals, RFP and RFI responses, ROI models and executive briefings
• Run AI strategy workshops that turn business problems into use cases
• Work with data scientists, architects and MLOps teams on pilots and PoCs

What you need

• 10+ years of experience, including substantial pre-sales or solution consulting for data and analytics
• Hands-on skill building generative and agentic AI demos
• Experience positioning large-scale data and analytics platforms
• Working knowledge of predictive modeling, document intelligence and agentic automation
• Experience across AWS, Azure and GCP
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Willingness to travel about 30%

Nice to have: Manufacturing or AgTech industry experience; advanced degree