India Studio Operations and AI Delivery Managing Director

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Job Description: Crowe Studio is Crowe’s AI-native, platform-led transformation business unit, created to design, prove, and scale new ways of delivering work for clients and for the firm. Studio operates outside traditional labor-based models, combining AI-enabled delivery, global capability centers, and reusable platform components to deliver outcomes—not hours.

The Studio exists to:

• Build and operate AI-enabled, globally delivered services
• Rapidly deploy and scale AI through Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE)
• Create reusable platform components that modernize delivery across Crowe’s business units

India is foundational to this model, not simply as a delivery location, but as a core engine of execution, talent development, and leadership capacity for the Studio.

This requisition is for India Studio Operations & AI Delivery Managing Director based in India who will help build, lead, and mature Crowe Studio’s presence in India, with equal emphasis on people leadership, AI delivery excellence, cross-functional transformation, and elevating the Studio BU’s leadership footprint in India.

This is not a traditional practice lead or functional specialist role. It is a Studio leadership role, accountable for shaping teams, developing leaders, enabling transformation, and ensuring India operates as a fully integrated, high-impact part of Crowe Studio’s global operating model.

Key Responsibilities People & Leadership Excellence

• Build, lead, and retain high-performing, multi-level teams across AI-enabled delivery and platform-aligned services
• Develop and scale leaders of leaders (Managers, Senior Managers, Directors), not just individual contributors
• Establish clear expectations around accountability, growth, performance, and culture
• Foster a coaching-oriented environment that supports professional development, succession planning, and retention
• Create clarity and momentum in fast-growing, ambiguous environments

AI-Native Delivery Leadership

• Provide informed leadership and oversight of AI-enabled delivery programs, including Generative AI, ML, AI engineering, and agentic workflows
• Apply sound judgment to distinguish what will scale sustainably versus what introduces delivery or operational risk
• Partner with AI architects, engineers, and FDE teams to ensure delivery quality, reliability, and reuse—without acting as the day-to-day technical owner
• Ensure AI delivery aligns with Studio’s platform-led, outcome-based delivery model rather than bespoke or labor-driven approaches

Studio & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Operate effectively across Studio ventures and disciplines (AI, Client Delivery, Platform, Design, Operations)
• Partner closely with U.S.-based Studio and business-unit leaders to align priorities, capacity, and execution
• Translate strategy into execution through operating rhythms, governance models, and clear prioritization
• Influence outcomes in a matrixed environment, often without direct authority

India Leadership & Presence

• Serve as a senior Studio leader in India, representing Crowe Studio with credibility, confidence, and authority
• Build and strengthen India leadership structures—not just delivery capacity
• Elevate India’s role from execution-focused to leadership, innovation, and co-creation partner
• Strengthen India–U.S. collaboration through cultural fluency, trust-building, and shared accountability

Operational & Scaling Discipline

• Own delivery health across capacity planning, utilization, quality, cost, and performance
• Drive repeatability, reuse, and standardization while maintaining high delivery standards
• Apply a data-driven app…