Ahead
AI Principal Consultant, AI Services
United States · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$250k-$300kDetected 229 days ago
Cloud PlatformsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIMLOpsA/B TestingBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingPublic Speaking
About the role
- We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
- AHEAD is seeking a Principal Consultant, AI Services to help enterprise clients move from AI ambition and experimentation to measurable business impact.
- This is a leadership role for a consulting professional who can operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, business transformation, and execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements from strategy through execution
- Lead complex AI and digital transformation engagements from initial diagnostic through roadmap design, implementation planning, and execution support.
- Manage day-to-day engagement delivery, including workstream planning, team leadership, synthesis, quality control, issue resolution, timelines, and client communication.
- 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.
- Partner with technical teams to move ideas into implementation
- Lead and develop teams
- Lead multidisciplinary teams across one or more client workstreams.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client leaders on where AI can create measurable value and what is required to scale it responsibly.
Nice to have
- Background in top-tier management consulting, Big 4 advisory, technology consulting, enterprise transformation, or a similar high-performing professional services environment.
- MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- Experience working with AI, data, cloud, software delivery, MLOps, responsible AI, or enterprise technology platforms.
- Experience helping clients move from strategy and roadmap development into pilot delivery, implementation, adoption, and value realization.
- What is not required
- You do not need to have deep coding experience.
- You do need to be comfortable leading business and technology conversations, asking the right questions, and translating between executive priorities and technical delivery realities.
- These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment.
Skills
- AHEAD builds platforms for digital business.
- Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
- Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
Compensation
- The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application.
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