# TEL605: App Director: Role Overview https://www.telosready.com/skills/TEL605?v=1 Job description and role overview for the App Director position at Telos — covering responsibilities, ideal background, and the franchise-style ownership model. ## Instructions # App Director: Role Overview Telos is a full-stack AI software platform built to help organisations design, build, and evolve purpose-built applications — without the cost, delay, or complexity of traditional software development. The App Director is a senior, client-led role focused on relationships, product direction, and outcomes. You represent Telos at the table while the platform and team build, deploy, and scale the software. This role is designed to evolve into a franchise-style model, where App Directors own client relationships and revenue, while Telos provides the full AI software engine behind them. --- ## What you'll do - Own and lead key client relationships from first conversation through long-term growth - Help clients identify where software and AI can remove friction, unlock value, or create advantage - Translate business problems into clear product direction and app concepts - Work with the Telos team to shape scope, priorities, and delivery pathways - Guide clients through discovery, validation, and decision-making — without technical overwhelm - Present roadmaps, outcomes, and progress with confidence and clarity - Ensure every build aligns with commercial goals, user value, and long-term scalability - Identify opportunities to expand applications, features, or AI capability over time > You don't sell software features. You guide clients to better outcomes — Telos does the rest. --- ## What you won't be doing - Writing production code - Managing engineers day-to-day - Juggling multiple software vendors - Translating technical complexity for its own sake Your value is clarity, leadership, and trust — not tickets or tools. --- ## The Telos advantage behind you - AI-accelerated application development - Front-end and back-end engineering - Data, integrations, and infrastructure - Scalable architecture and security - Ongoing iteration, optimisation, and support As an App Director, you never have to build or manage the stack — you activate it. --- ## Who this role is for You are someone who: - Understands technology and AI at a conceptual level - Is comfortable advising senior leaders and founders - Can connect business problems to software solutions - Thinks in systems, products, and long-term value - Wants autonomy, ownership, and a pathway to build their own portfolio You might come from product or digital leadership, consultancy or agency leadership, innovation or transformation roles, or senior client partner and account leadership. Background matters less than judgement and mindset. --- ## Why Telos - Software should be purposeful, not bloated - AI should empower people, not replace them - Speed matters, but clarity matters more - The best products start with better conversations Telos exists to remove friction between ideas and execution. You focus on people, problems, and possibility. Telos handles the software.← Skills Directory
TEL605
App Director: Role Overview
Job description and role overview for the App Director position at Telos — covering responsibilities, ideal background, and the franchise-style ownership model.
# App Director: Role Overview Telos is a full-stack AI software platform built to help organisations design, build, and evolve purpose-built applications — without the cost, delay, or complexity of traditional software development. The App Director is a senior, client-led role focused on relationships, product direction, and outcomes. You represent Telos at the table while the platform and team build, deploy, and scale the software. This role is designed to evolve into a franchise-style model, where App Directors own client relationships and revenue, while Telos provides the full AI software engine behind them. --- ## What you'll do - Own and lead key client relationships from first conversation through long-term growth - Help clients identify where software and AI can remove friction, unlock value, or create advantage - Translate business problems into clear product direction and app concepts - Work with the Telos team to shape scope, priorities, and delivery pathways - Guide clients through discovery, validation, and decision-making — without technical overwhelm - Present roadmaps, outcomes, and progress with confidence and clarity - Ensure every build aligns with commercial goals, user value, and long-term scalability - Identify opportunities to expand applications, features, or AI capability over time > You don't sell software features. You guide clients to better outcomes — Telos does the rest. --- ## What you won't be doing - Writing production code - Managing engineers day-to-day - Juggling multiple software vendors - Translating technical complexity for its own sake Your value is clarity, leadership, and trust — not tickets or tools. --- ## The Telos advantage behind you - AI-accelerated application development - Front-end and back-end engineering - Data, integrations, and infrastructure - Scalable architecture and security - Ongoing iteration, optimisation, and support As an App Director, you never have to build or manage the stack — you activate it. --- ## Who this role is for You are someone who: - Understands technology and AI at a conceptual level - Is comfortable advising senior leaders and founders - Can connect business problems to software solutions - Thinks in systems, products, and long-term value - Wants autonomy, ownership, and a pathway to build their own portfolio You might come from product or digital leadership, consultancy or agency leadership, innovation or transformation roles, or senior client partner and account leadership. Background matters less than judgement and mindset. --- ## Why Telos - Software should be purposeful, not bloated - AI should empower people, not replace them - Speed matters, but clarity matters more - The best products start with better conversations Telos exists to remove friction between ideas and execution. You focus on people, problems, and possibility. Telos handles the software.