AI Consulting Lead (Principal)

HR Anexi; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in India is seeking a Principal – AI Consulting Lead to drive AI transformations across various industries. In this role, you will partner with CXOs, design programs, and ensure delivery of measurable value through innovative AI solutions. Candidates should have over 8 years in management consulting, with experience leading complex programs. This full-time position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI within organizations, emphasizing hands-on transformation and collaboration with clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in management or tech consulting.
• Ability to lead multi-stream programs to outcome.
• Understanding of LLMs and agent patterns.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose functions and design phase-wise roadmaps.
• Craft SOWs, price for margin, define KPIs.
• Align L&D initiatives with client roadmaps.

Skills

Management/tech consulting

AI fluency

Systems thinking

Board-level communication

Pricing and scope management

Education

8–12+ years in relevant consulting

Tools

LangChain

AutoGen

Vector DBs

Job description

Indian companies are hitting an inflection point: boards want AI outcomes, not AI talks. BOTS.AI is India’s first consulting firm purpose-built to embed AI and agentic AI into traditional organisations, rewiring workflows, decisions, and P&L. We don’t sell slideware. We design, ship, and scale living systems that change how work gets done across HR, Sales, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and L&D.

We’re already running multi-crore, 24-month transformations across industries while delivering AI L&D at scale (PromptStart → Pro → Masters → OS) to 50–60 orgs. Now we’re building a founding leadership bench to turn this into India’s category-defining consulting powerhouse.

The Opportunity

As Principal – AI Consulting Lead, you’ll be the director's partner in the room with CXOs, turning ambiguous ambition into ROI-anchored programs, architecting execution with our AI Architect, and landing visible wins. You’ll own relationships, scope, commercials, governance, and value realization across ₹2 Cr+ programs.

This is a builder role. You’ll shape the playbook others will follow.

What You’ll Lead

• Boardroom to shop-floor: Diagnose functions, pressure-test use cases, design phase-wise roadmaps, and get executive commitment.
• Program design & commercials: Craft SOWs, price for margin, define KPIs/OKRs, and set up governance (steerco, workstreams, cadence).
• Agentic transformation: With the AI Architect, translate business workflows into agentic AI architectures (tool use, retrieval/RAG, orchestration, guardrails, evals).
• Lighthouse delivery: Land 1–2 shippable pilots per client (6–8 weeks each) and scale into a portfolio of use cases.
• L&D at scale: Align PromptStart/Pro/Masters/OS with each client’s roadmap; convert training into adoption and measurable productivity.
• Account growth: Multi-thread relationships, expand scope across functions/geos, own revenue & margin per account.
• IP & standards: Co-create reference architectures, SOW templates, ROI calculators, change playbooks, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities (day-to-day)

• Run discovery with business & IT, map processes, and identify high-ROI interventions.
• Write crisp SOWs: problem, value hypothesis, deliverables, owner ladder, risks, pricing, acceptance criteria.
• Co‑own technical feasibility reviews with the Architect (data, identity, tools, policies, privacy).
• Set up observability & evals for every pilot; publish weekly value reports to execs.
• Partner with L&D to ensure post‑training activation (playbooks, prompt libraries, sandboxes).
• Manage commercials: revenue, GM, burn vs plan, change orders.
• Coach client teams; build internal BOTS.AI consulting muscle.

You’ll Thrive Here If You

• Have 8–12+ years in management/tech consulting (MBB, Big 4, high‑performing boutique) or operator‑led transformation; you’ve led multi‑stream programs to outcome.
• Are AI‑fluent (not academic): understand LLMs, agent patterns (ReAct/tool use), RAG, evals, observability, data/privacy, and platform trade‑offs.
• Can price, scope, and defend margins, while keeping exec sponsors excited.
• Are a systems thinker with a bias to ship; you turn ambiguity into a 6‑week plan.
• Communicate with board‑level clarity and shop‑floor pragmatism.

Nice to have

India Inc. exposure (family businesses, mid‑market), domain depth in 1–2 functions (e.g., HR, Finance, Manufacturing), experience deploying copilots/agents at scale, comfort with LangChain/AutoGen/CrewAI, vector DBs, and enterprise integration patterns.

How We’ll Measure Success

• Delivery: On‑time pilots, evaluation scores (task success, cost/tx, latency), adoption curves.
• Change: # of workflows re‑wired, % teams activated post‑L&D, stakeholder NPS.
• IP: Reusable architectures, templates adopted across clients.

Why Join BOTS.AI

• Build the category: India’s first consulting firm truly embedding agentic AI in legacy orgs.
• Write the playbook: Your standards will become the firm’s operating system.
• See impact fast: We ship pilots in weeks, not quarters, and scale them.
• Work that compounds: Every architecture becomes reusable IP; every win unlocks the next account.

How to Apply

Subject: Principal – AI Consulting Lead – BOTS.AI

Include:

• CV or LinkedIn
• 1‑pager: pick a function (HR/Finance/Manufacturing) and outline a 6–8 week agentic pilot (KPIs, architecture sketch, risks)

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Business Consulting and Services, Human Resources Services