AI & Data Strategy and Transformation Consulting Manager
About The Position
As an AI & Data Strategy and Transformation Consulting Manager at Wavestone, you will help clients turn AI ambition into business outcomes. You will serve as a trusted advisor to business unit and functional executives, leading strategy and transformation engagements alongside strategic, adoption, and technical teams. Within the AI Strategy and Transformation pillar of Wavestone’s AI & Data capability group, you will lead or support AI readiness assessments, strategy and roadmap development, use-case prioritization, business cases, operating model design, and adoption programs. The role connects business priorities, people and process change, and technical execution to help clients move from experimentation to scaled value. You will partner with engineering, data, and responsible AI specialists, rather than primarily serving as a hands-on data platform architect, while mentoring teams and developing reusable consulting offerings. The role is hybrid, with work in the office three days when not at a client site. Consultants work flexibly based on client and business needs; periodic travel to client sites and/or attendance at a designated hub office may be required. Candidates must be legally authorized to work for any U.S. employer full-time without sponsorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Economics, Organizational Change, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience in management consulting, technology strategy, or enterprise transformation, including AI strategy or AI-enabled transformation engagements.
- At least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
- Demonstrated experience producing client-ready assessments, strategies, roadmaps, business cases, or operating model and adoption plans.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and strategic problem-solving skills.
- Proven contribution to business development, including proposal shaping, identifying opportunities, or securing extensions.
- Legally authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. on a full-time basis without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant AI, change management, project management, or cloud/data certifications.
- Hands-on AI or engineering experience.
- Working understanding of generative AI, agentic AI, analytics, and the data and platform foundations needed to scale them.
- Experience assessing AI tools and platform options against business needs, integration requirements, cost, risk, and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Lead AI strategy and transformation engagements from readiness assessment and executive alignment through roadmap development, execution support, and scaled adoption.
- Advise business unit, functional, and senior leaders on AI opportunities, investment priorities, operating model choices, and organizational changes needed to realize business value.
- Identify and prioritize AI use cases through stakeholder interviews and workshops, assessing business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, and adoption requirements; develop actionable portfolios and roadmaps.
- Design AI operating models that define ownership, decision rights, funding mechanisms, cross-functional roles, and portfolio governance, collaborating with specialists to embed appropriate controls.
- Build business cases and value realization plans that establish outcome baselines, success measures, benefit owners, and plans for translating productivity gains or freed capacity into growth, service improvements, or cost outcomes.
- Lead adoption and capability uplift through stakeholder engagement, role-based AI literacy, change plans, communications, and communities of practice; mentor consultants and client teams.
- Develop client opportunities and market offerings with account leaders and capability specialists, including discovery, executive briefings, proposals, pitches, thought leadership, industry playbooks, and reusable assessment and delivery assets.
- Guide AI-enabled work and process redesign and transformation delivery, coordinating business, change, data, and engineering teams; maintain roadmaps, manage dependencies and risks, and track adoption and benefits beyond pilots.
- Drive business development for AI and other Wavestone capabilities within existing and new clients.
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- 401K Savings Plan with Company Match
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP)
- 35 PTO inclusive of holidays
- Four months of parental leave for the birthing parent and two months for the supporting parent
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
