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AI Principal Consultant, AI Services

AHEAD· Solutions Development
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Hybrid (Remote)$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

AHEAD seeks a Principal Consultant, AI Services to lead high-impact client engagements, shape AI strategy, and drive enterprise AI implementations from strategy to execution.

Responsibilities

  • Lead client engagements from strategy through execution
  • Structure ambiguous client problems into clear hypotheses, workplans, analyses, decision points, and executive-ready deliverables
  • Manage day-to-day engagement delivery, including workstream planning, team leadership, synthesis, quality control, issue resolution, timelines, and client communication
  • Facilitate executive workshops and align senior stakeholders across business, technology, data, risk, and operations
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to client leaders on where AI can create measurable value and what is required to scale it responsibly
  • Identify and prioritize AI opportunities across productivity, growth, customer experience, decision-making, software delivery, and operational efficiency
  • Conduct AI maturity and readiness assessments across strategy, data, platforms, governance, talent, process, and change management
  • Build practical AI roadmaps that sequence pilots, platform enablers, governance actions, operating model changes, and value realization milestones
  • Develop business cases and value-tracking approaches that connect AI initiatives to measurable client outcomes
  • Help clients redesign workflows and operating processes to capture value from AI, automation, and agent-assisted ways of working
  • Translate business priorities into implementation-ready initiatives in partnership with architects, engineers, data specialists, and security/governance experts
  • Help define pilot scope, success metrics, adoption plans, governance requirements, and scale-up pathways
  • Ensure AI recommendations are practical, credible, and grounded in enterprise technology realities
  • Bridge communication between executive stakeholders and technical delivery teams
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams across one or more client workstreams
  • Coach consultants and specialists through structured problem solving, client communication, synthesis, and executive-ready output
  • Create a high-performance team environment with clear ownership, strong feedback, and a consistent quality bar
  • Help build reusable methods, tools, templates, and delivery approaches for AHEAD’s AI Services practice
  • Identify follow-on opportunities within client engagements and help shape the path from initial advisory work to broader transformation programs
  • Contribute to proposals, solution design, client presentations, and account growth efforts
  • Help develop AHEAD’s AI offerings, points of view, go-to-market materials, and thought leadership
  • Stay current on enterprise AI trends, including generative AI, agentic AI, AI governance, responsible AI, AI-enabled software delivery, data platforms, and cloud ecosystems

Qualifications

  • Typically 7–12+ years of experience in management consulting, technology advisory, digital transformation, enterprise technology, AI strategy, or related client-facing roles
  • Proven experience leading client engagements, workstreams, or project teams with senior business and technology stakeholders
  • Strong structured problem-solving skills, including the ability to break down ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, conduct analysis, synthesize insights, and communicate recommendations
  • Excellent executive communication and facilitation skills, including experience creating and presenting senior-leadership-ready materials
  • Experience in AI strategy, digital transformation, use case prioritization, business case development, process redesign, automation, operating model design, AI governance, or technology-enabled transformation
  • Sufficient AI and technology fluency to work credibly with business leaders, CIO/CTO organizations, architects, engineers, data teams, and risk/governance stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams, coach talent, manage timelines, and maintain a high bar for client-ready work

Skills

Required:AI strategydigital transformationproject leadershipexecutive communication

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Plus more! See benefits details at aheadbenefits.com
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Digital Platforms Engineered for Modern Enterprises

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.

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