AI & Data Strategy and Transformation Consulting Senior Manager

Wavestone • New York, NY

13h • $200,000 - $214,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Wavestone, the AI & Data Strategy and Transformation Consulting Senior Manager helps clients turn AI ambitions into business outcomes. The role serves as a trusted advisor to business unit and functional executives and leads strategy and transformation engagements in collaboration with strategic, adoption, and technical teams.

Within the AI Strategy and Transformation pillar of Wavestone’s AI & Data capability group, the Senior Manager leads or supports 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 progress from experimentation to scaled value. It partners with engineering, data, and responsible AI specialists, rather than serving primarily as a hands-on data platform architect, and mentors teams while developing reusable consulting offerings.

The role includes client and market development, transformation delivery, executive facilitation, and team leadership. Consultants are expected to work flexibly based on client and business needs; periodic travel to client sites and/or a designated hub office may be required. The position is hybrid, with three days in the office when not working at a client site. 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.
• 14+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, technology strategy, or enterprise transformation, including AI strategy or AI-enabled transformation engagements.
• At least 5 years in a leadership or management role.
• Track record of creating competitive and breakthrough strategies; leading projects in consulting and industry environments; owning deliverables; and implementing creative client solutions amid ambiguity.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage large audiences, and communicate transparently in high-pressure situations.
• Demonstrated success generating new business, leading major pitches, and expanding client relationships and networks.
• Strong communication skills, including delivering compelling presentations to internal and external stakeholders.
• Interpersonal skills to work with clients and team members and build trusting client relationships.
• Legally authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. on a full-time basis without sponsorship.
• Ability to work flexibly based on client and business needs, including periodic travel to client sites and/or attendance at a designated hub office.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant AI, change management, project management, or cloud/data certifications.
• Hands-on engineering experience is valuable, though it is not the primary requirement.

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 facilitated workshops, assessing business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, and adoption requirements; develop actionable portfolios and roadmaps.
• Design AI operating models, including ownership, decision rights, funding mechanisms, cross-functional roles, and portfolio governance, collaborating with responsible AI, risk, security, and data specialists to embed controls.
• Build business cases and value realization plans with 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 by leading discovery and executive briefings, shaping proposals and pitches, and creating 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.
• Develop managers and emerging leaders and serve as a role model for the firm’s values and strategy.

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility.
• 401K Savings Plan with Company Match.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP).
• 35 PTO days inclusive of holidays.
• Four months of parental leave for the birthing parent and two months for the supporting parent.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior