frog is one of the world’s most successful innovation and creative consultancies. It has recently established its Innovation Team in Milan, creating a global hub for delivering breakthrough products and experiences across digital and physical realities, thanks to high-caliber innovation, strategy, design, and engineering expertise.

As a catalyst for diversity, we welcome international talents to join us in a flat and open environment, promoting curiosity, experimentation, cultural cross-pollination, and collaboration.

Why join frog?
frog is the reinvention & experience partner for the eco-digital era, global leader in CX Strategy by analysts and awards.
Together with our clients, we innovate with purpose, using strategy, creativity, tech, data and AI to advance people and planet.
We are dreamers and doers who are relentless about challenging the status quo to win hearts and move markets. As part of Capgemini Invent, we bring diverse skillsets to unleash growth, build superior experiences and create lasting impact at scale—fusing art and science to realize the future.
Frogs prize humour, positivity, and community just as highly as performance and outcomes. Our culture is open, flexible, inclusive, and engaging. Working at frog means being empowered to meet the moment, and Make Your Mark on every project, in your studio, your community—and the world at large.

About the job
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and delivery. As a Data and AI Architect, you will work on advising clients across technologies, platforms, and business areas and building production-ready AI-systems powering digital products and experiences. The role requires a broad understanding of modern data solutions and AI technologies, and how these can be integrated and monetized to create value for clients.
You will get the opportunity to work for the world’s major brands as well as dynamic startups across a broad variety of industries, geographies and technology stacks.

Key responsibilities
• Technology Advisory. Act as a trusted advisor, framing business and product challenges into actionable AI and data architectures. Identify opportunities for AI‑enabled customer experiences, personalization, and data-driven value creation.
• Hands‑on Solution Architecture and Build. Design and implement end‑to‑end AI systems, including data flows, RAG pipelines, agentic architectures, model orchestration, and real-time inference services. Produce working prototypes, reference implementations, and deployment-ready components.
• Pre‑Sales. Shape proposals, architectures, and delivery approaches for client opportunities. Partner with sales teams to define go‑to‑market strategies and articulate the value of AI‑driven digital products.
• Solution Delivery Leadership. Oversee the delivery of AI applications using technologies such as LLMs, Agentic and Generative AI, and predictive analytics with high architectural quality, performance, and integration with user-facing digital products.
• Thought Leadership. Track emerging AI technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling. Contribute to frog offerings, accelerators, and industry points of view.
• Cross‑disciplinary Collaboration. Work with UX, Product, Strategy, and Engineering teams from discovery to deployment. Shape product roadmaps, evaluate feasibility, and ensure alignment between AI capabilities, user experience, and technical constraints.

We want you to have:
• 5+ years of experience in data, AI, cloud, or technology consulting. Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related fields preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-native AI solutions on Azure (Azure AI Studio, Azure OpenAI, AKS) or AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, EKS) or GCP, using modern serverless and containerized deployment patterns. on experience designing and implementing cloud native AI solutions
• Proven experience architecting and building production-grade AI applications, ideally customer-facing (e.g., conversational experiences, content generation, personalization, recommender systems).
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures (event-driven pipelines, data lakes, real-time processing, API-first architectures).
• Leadership experience, guiding in-house or external teams of engineers or data/ML practitioners.
• Experience driving pre-sales conversations and scoping AI initiatives, including crafting proposals, estimation, and value cases.
• Comfort operating across strategy and engineering, able to switch between conceptual business framing and hands-on problem solving.
• Ability to define AI strategies and execute them, from discovery through delivery, including ownership of readiness assessments, operating model design, governance, and capability enablement.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, capable of influencing both technical and non technical audiences.
• Knowledge of modern frameworks for web (React, Vue, Angular) or mobile (React Native, Flutter, Swift/Kotlin) development.
• Fluency in English (B2+); Italian not required.
• Willingness to travel internationally for key meetings and collaboration sessions.

About the frog Innovation Team
The frog Innovation Team based in Milan, draws on the strengths of a diverse, multidisciplinary and international creative team established over 15 years ago, which has played a key role in shaping design and UX as we know them today.
We collaborate with frog and Capgemini teams globally, to drive product and service innovation from ideas to strategy to market, with a focus on Connected Experiences and Digital Platforms.
The team is working with Global 100 brands across key industries like Healthcare, Consumer Products, Fintech, Telco and Media to drive continuous business reinvention and innovation toward the cutting edge.

Application Instructions
As part of your application, please include a link or PDF of your portfolio of recent work, highlighting your abilities and experience relevant to the role, with specific examples of how you work, think, collaborate, and contribute to great design outcomes. frog is a global business with teams working from every corner of the world. To help us process your application, please ensure that your application documents (CV, cover letter, portfolio, etc.) are all in English.

Equal Opportunities at frog
frog and Capgemini Invent are Equal Opportunity Employers encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Work/Life Harmony
We understand that everyone has varied lives and we want you to have a great work-life balance. So, where possible, our Work Life Harmony policy will help you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.