AI - Centre of Excellence Lead, India

AI Centre of Excellence Lead, India Associate Director Interpath | Gurugram About Interpath Interpath is a financial advisory business with a broad range of specialisms that was formed to allow our people to do what they do best in an agile, independent and conflict-free setting. We offer the full spectrum of restructuring services from business performance improvement and value creation through to stress, distress and insolvency offerings. Our advisory practice consists of corporate finance, transaction services, valuations, debt advisory, tax, pensions, forensic accounting and e-discovery services. We help our clients create, defend, preserve, sustain and grow value through the cycle. We work with businesses and their stakeholders across all areas of the market, from regional SMEs all the way up to large, complex multi-national organisations. Why join Interpath now? Interpath is an independent, conflict-free advisory business backed by Bridgepoint, one of Europe's leading private equity investors. AI is a funded part of the firm's growth plan and has executive sponsorship behind it. The India Talent Hub builds and runs the firm's technology, and the AI Centre of Excellence is being established there to build and support AI for the whole firm. A team of five is being recruited now and will be in place at about the same time as this appointment, so delivery starts immediately. This is a build role in a small team. The person who takes it will be close to the work, not managing at a distance from it. About the role An Associate Director appointment reporting to the Head of AI, leading Interpath's AI Centre of Excellence within the India Talent Hub in Gurgaon. The Centre of Excellence builds AI solutions for the whole firm, takes them into production and supports them in use. Its scope covers the firm's client-facing service lines and the firm's own corporate functions, and the strongest of the internal solutions are expected to become propositions the firm can take to clients. This is a professional services business, not a product company or an industrial one, and what gets built has to fit how advisory work is actually done. The Head of AI is a Director-level role based in Europe, reporting to the CTO and AI Steering Committee. The role leads the AI Centre of Excellence and manages a team of five: two AI & Tech Engineering Managers, one PMO Lead and two AI Support colleagues. The team is currently being recruited, with the initial focus on establishing and developing the function. The role is hands-on as well as strategic. In the early stages, the postholder will personally prototype and build AI solutions as the team establishes its capabilities and moves towards production. As the team matures, the focus will increasingly shift towards technical direction, architecture and design reviews, code reviews and team leadership, while retaining the ability to step into delivery when required. The role requires the ability…