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Qualification
- 10\+ years of applicable experience, including 3\+ years as a Digital Account Director, Digital Project Director or client\-facing technical consultant at the Manager or Senior Manager level.
- Earlier career experience as a technical lead, software engineer, solutions architect, or applicable role
- Proven track record of establishing and growing high\-value relationships and partnerships with customers
- Experience presenting/pitching strategic recommendations and complex concepts
- Experience leading digital transformation programs such as AI/ML and GenAI, data platforms and analytics, custom software development (web, mobile, APIs, microservices), and modernization of legacy systems.
- Highly skilled at leading diverse cross\-functional teams to create, implement and evolve technical solutions to drive tangible, measurable client results.
- Working knowledge of modern software delivery
- Experience working at a digital consultancy, software product company, or technology\-led agency.
- Held responsibility for project financials/budget and understanding P\&L.
Working conditions
- Travel as needed to client and WWT sites (approximately 15% or less)
- Located in or near St. Louis, MO
Education
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
Organizational Relationships
- This position reports to the Senior Client Solutions Director within the digital organization.
Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $134,000 to $168,000 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that are not included in the base pay.
The well\-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full\-time employees:
- Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
- Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off: PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year) \& Holidays (10 per year), Parental Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
- Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!
If you have any questions or concerns about this posting, please email [email protected].
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Why WWT?
At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world\-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting\-edge technology solutions for our clients.
Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.
With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high\-performance teams? Join WWT today!
What is the Solutions Consulting \& Engineering (SC\&E) Team and why join?
Solutions Consulting \& Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end\-to\-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world\-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full\-stack technical know\-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.
What will you be doing?
The Digital \& AI Platforms organization at World Wide Technology is hiring an Associate Client Solutions Director (ACSD) to lead delivery of strategic digital and AI programs, build and strengthen client relationships, and grow our footprint in key accounts.
The ACSD (St. Louis based) will partner with client stakeholders in both business and technology roles, and lead WWT teams spanning software engineering, AI/ML engineering, design, and product, among others, to shape and execute the right solution. Success means profitable engagements, long\-lasting client relationships, and outcomes that earn the next opportunity.
This is a technical leadership role. ACSDs have come up through engineering, architecture, or technical delivery, and stay credible in technical conversations with Director\- and VP\-level technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Own key client relationships and foster trusted partnerships to drive client satisfaction of current programs and ongoing account growth
- Build and grow partnerships with clients (VP/Director level) across both business leadership and engineering/technology leadership
- Define and oversee client relationship management within the program team
- Join sales team to close opportunities through functions such as proposal strategy, pitch approach, contract writing, and negotiation strategy
- Partner with Sales to navigate the client organization to build new relationships, broaden areas of impact, and open doors to new opportunities
- Operate as the ultimate business and technical consultant to the client, bringing industry expertise and thought leadership
Overseeing Delivery Team to execute profitable engagements that create value for both the clients and WWT, with meaningful business outcomes
- Own the program strategy and shape the technical solutions we provide to our clients
- Serve as the primary account\-level financial lead and hold accountability in meeting profit expectations and growth goals
- Guide delivery teams in reporting and delivery updates, ensuring the client recognizes the value of the work, and escalations are made as needed
- Coach and mentor program leads and drive team health
Serving as the lead of the client program, taking accountability for account health and business performance
- Operate as the day\-to\-day lead of the client program, and coordinate and escalate within WWT as needed
- Provide regular status and financial reporting to WWT leadership
- Lead and coordinate across internal organizational lines — engineering, design, data, AI, cloud — ensuring we present as one unified team to the client
Identify and pursue opportunities that create additional value for clients and WWT
- Proactively identify opportunities for new projects and pursue those, through defining a clear proposal, navigating the client's organization to pitch to key buyers, leading a pursuit team, and more
- Identify new ways to align WWT offerings to support the client's strategic goals
Salary Context
This $134K-$168K range is below the median for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $180K across 1841 roles with salary data).
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About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 3,708 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At World Wide Technology, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills in Demand for This Role
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $218,750 based on 3,817 positions with disclosed compensation. Director-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $272,150. This role's midpoint ($151K) sits 31% below the category median. Disclosed range: $134K to $168K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($300,000) and Research Engineer ($280,000). By seniority level: Entry: $120,000; Mid: $200,000; Senior: $230,000; Director: $272,150; VP: $250,000.
World Wide Technology AI Hiring
World Wide Technology has 31 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, AI Product Manager. Positions span Remote, US, Hartford, CT, US, St. Louis, MO, US. Compensation range: $104K - $300K.
Remote Work Context
Remote AI roles pay a median of $185,334 across 717 positions. About 14% of all AI roles offer remote work.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,708 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 102 entry-level, 1,705 mid-level, 1,469 senior, and 432 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 14% of the market (508 positions). The remaining 3,180 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($300,000 median, 21 roles); Research Engineer ($280,000 median, 147 roles); AI Architect ($254,798 median, 67 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,708 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,605), Data Scientist (310), AI Software Engineer (259). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (102) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,705) and senior (1,469) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 432 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 14% of all AI roles (508 positions), with 3,180 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $217,500. Top-quartile roles start at $272,100, and the 90th percentile reaches $325,000. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $300,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,890 postings), Aws (1,103 postings), Azure (877 postings), Rag (855 postings), Gcp (631 postings), Prompt Engineering (560 postings), Pytorch (545 postings), Claude (498 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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