Rackspace Us Inc.

Rackspace Us Inc.

Practice Director - Data and AI (Palantir)

US-Work from Home · Director

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About the role

  • Practice Directors are expected to be visionary leaders and credible practitioners, capable of driving success across Palantir-centric engagements.
  • You will inspire and mobilize resources, provide technical guidance, and cultivate our strategic relationship and joint go-to-market with Palantir.
  • Strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to inspire trust and innovation are essential to succeeding in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Practice Building: Spearhead the growth of the Palantir practice by developing strategies for business development, talent management, and delivery.
  • Build reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and case studies that differentiate the practice with Palantir and in the market.
  • Accountability: Own practice growth end-to-end - help driving sales, recruiting talent, managing client accounts, overseeing engagements, and ensuring operational excellence.
  • Leadership Development: Build a team of high-performing leaders and practitioners by mentoring individuals to grow their skills, take on greater responsibility, and pursue Palantir certifications.
  • Project Oversight: Manage engagement risk and economics - planning, budgeting, and monitoring accounts receivable. Define clear deliverables aligned to client objectives.
  • Client Satisfaction: Maintain high client satisfaction by delivering impactful, production-grade solutions and building trust at the highest levels of client organizations.
  • Lead recruiting to attract and retain top forward-deployed talent, and support onboarding.
  • Manage engagement risk and economics - planning, budgeting, and monitoring accounts receivable.
  • Maintain high client satisfaction by delivering impactful, production-grade solutions and building trust at the highest levels of client organizations.

Requirements

  • Extensive Leadership Experience: 12+ years of leadership, with a strong track record of 10+ years in consulting/professional services.
  • Business Line Oversight: Proven experience managing a business line and P&L, ideally including the launch or scaling of a new practice or platform-centric service line.
  • Strategic Advisor: Strong ability to act as a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders, including government, defense, or regulated commercial clients typical of Palantir engagements.
  • Financial Acumen: Proven experience in financial management and successfully operating a business.
  • Engagement Leadership: Proficiency in leading transformation projects involving change management, organizational design, process mapping, and platform implementation.
  • Executive Presence: Exceptional communication skills and the ability to establish trusted relationships with C-level executives and mission owners.

Nice to have

  • 12+ years of leadership, with a strong track record of 10+ years in consulting/professional services.
  • Business Line Oversight:
  • Proven experience managing a business line and P&L, ideally including the launch or scaling of a new practice or platform-centric service line.
  • Experience with other enterprise data or AI platforms is a plus but not a substitute.
  • Forward-Deployed Delivery Model:
  • Familiarity with embedded, pod-based delivery - working side-by-side with client teams to rapidly prototype and ship production solutions rather than traditional waterfall consulting.
  • Delivery Leadership:

Skills

  • Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Compensation

  • The compensation range for this position ranges from $185,709.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to 272,373.20 USD/year in our highest geographic market.

Benefits

  • Create a collaborative, inclusive culture of trust and continuous learning.
  • Strategic Vision: Define and communicate a compelling vision for the practice, aligned to the Palantir partnership roadmap and broader organizational goals.

Company info

  • About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts.
  • And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe.
  • We are the multicloud solutions experts.
  • We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.

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