AI Software Engineering Capability Leader
Slalom· Management Consulting· Jun 30, 2026 · 4mo agoPosted 119 days ago
East Bay, CA
In office
Full-time
$260K–$290K
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Open since June 30, 2026 — 119 days, and still accepting applications.
Job description
Go-to-Market Senior Leader – Software Engineering & AI
Who You’ll Work With
At Slalom, we blend personal connection with global scale to transform how organizations redefine possibilities, shape the future, and achieve their goals. Our mission is to maximize the value of the technology and software our clients create through efficient, high-quality, and consistent service, incorporating AI tools and outcome-focused strategies across the product lifecycle.
As a senior leader level within our Software Engineering capability in the Americas, you will operate as part of a broader go-to-market leadership network. The role drives sales, delivery, and client outcomes across product engineering and AI-accelerated engineering , supporting clients as they build, scale, and operate digital products and platforms. A requirement of this role is residency within the San Francisco, East Bay or Silicon Valley area.
What You’ll Do
This role will align regional or country-wide Capability strategies with market needs by acting as a subject matter expert and thought leader. You will collaborate closely with clients and industry partners to identify opportunities. Additionally, you will support and develop a go-to-market team, contribute to delivery through billable roles with specific utilization targets, and partner with leadership to achieve revenue goals and address capability challenges. Your primary focus is to sell and oversee client work, lead thought leadership on the AI-accelerated software development lifecycle (SDLC ), and manage multiple accounts with large-scale engineering teams.
Capability Vision and Strategy
• Tailors regional or country-wide capability strategy to market needs.
• Ensures product/software engineering and AI capabilities align with desired client outcomes.
Delivery Management
• Engages in billable client delivery roles, ensuring high-quality outcomes in product engineering and AI capabilities .
• Oversees delivery across multiple client accounts and large-scale engineering teams.
Go to Market Approach
• Ignites awareness and demand for Product Engineering offerings through proactive sales campaigns, RFIs, RFPs, workshops, and prototypes .
• Builds and sustains relationships across target and active client portfolios in your market.
• Creates demand by proactively seeking speaking opportunities within the geographic Market as a Capability SME and thought leader at external conferences and events.
Business Development and Sales
• Partners with client and sales leaders to identify technology-led opportunities, acting as the Solution Lead or Subject Matter Expert during pursuits.
• Participates in multi-capability solutioning and outcome-based selling motions with other Go To market leaders.
• Collaborates on growth projections, driving revenue performance against forecasts and identify capability health challenges, aligning corrective actions as needed.
• Own the portfolio of sales and revenue of the Software Engineering capability in this market.
Resource Pipeline
• Participates in hiring, staffing, and workforce planning rhythms for market and or capability teams.
People Development
• Leads and develops teams through direct and indirect reporting relationships to scale go-to-market impact.
• Provides performance feedback on Capability team members supporting pursuits and delivery.
What You’ll Bring
You possess deep technology delivery and leadership experience, with a passion for building teams and client partnerships. You are skilled as both a strategic leader and hands-on practitioner, with expertise in product engineering, AI-accelerated engineering, and large-scale delivery models. Your leadership is inspirational and proactive, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, growth, and market-focused strategic thinking.
Core Expertise:
• Product Engineering: Extensive experience leading cross-discipline teams (Agile, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevOps, and UX).
• Engineering Excellence: Experience establishing modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, test automation, code quality standards, and developer experience improvements across large teams.
• Application Architecture and Modernization: Experience leading the design of scalable application architectures, APIs, and microservices, and modernizing legacy applications and platforms.
• Digital Product Delivery: Experience guiding digital products from discovery through prototype, launch, and scale, using sound product and engineering trade-offs.
• Accelerated Engineering with AI: Deep understanding of how Generative AI is evolving the SDLC and maturing technology organizations.
• Team-Based Delivery at Scale: Experience delivering engineering projects using scale teaming models, including Nearshore and Offshore partners.
• Product Mindset: Ability to work with customers to shape product strategy, roadmaps, and outcome-based results.
• Book of Business Leadership: Experience running a book of business for software engineering, including business planning, revenue forecasting, pipeline management, sales operations, contract negotiation, and escalation management.
• Multi-Account Management: Experience managing multiple client accounts with large-scale engineering teams, including executive relationships, delivery oversight, and client escalations.
Leadership Attributes:
• Inspirational Leadership: Forward-looking strategic thinking connected to market needs.
• Proactive GTM Mentality: A builder of relationships and pipeline who does not wait for leads to be handed to them.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to collaborate across different teams and global organizations.
• Grow Mindset: Acts as an external speaker at events and speaks to customer CXOs as a peer with credibility and confidence.
About Us
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.
What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Director is $240,000 to $260,000 and the target base salary range for Senior Director is $260,000-$290,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus . Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com . Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.
Locations: East Bay, CA; San Francisco, CA; Silicon Valley, CA
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