Senior Program Director (Chennai)

Cognizant; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AI - Artificial Intelligence Strategist to shape the AI portfolio, design high impact use cases, and build compelling value propositions. You will enable early-stage client engagement and translate business needs into structured, scalable AI offerings that drive growth for the AI Market Unit.

This role blends business design, AI capability, and industry insight to create differentiated offerings that win in the market.

Qualifications

• Product-minded consultant or solution designer with AI literacy.
• Ability to blend conceptual thinking, business acumen and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• AI Offering & Use Case Design
• Own conceptual and architectural design for prioritized AI use cases and offerings.
• Translate business problems, industry signals, and AI capabilities into structured solution blueprints.
• Develop narratives, workflows, and design artifacts illustrating the art of the possible and competitive differentiation.
• Value Proposition Development & Collateral Creation
• Create reusable offering assets including pitch decks, one-pagers, POVs, demo scripts, and solution differentiators.
• Align offerings with market demand, competitive insights, and Cognizants internal capability landscape.

Job description

AI - Artificial Intelligence Strategist

Location: India (Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad)

About The Role

The AI Strategist plays a pivotal role in shaping Cognizants AI portfolio by designing high impact AI use cases, building compelling value propositions, and enabling early-stage client engagement. Sitting at the intersection of business design, AI capability, and industry needs, this role transforms opportunity spaces into structured, scalable, commercially strong AI offerings that drive growth for the AI Market Unit. Impact AI use cases, building compelling value propositions, and enabling earlystage client engagement. Sitting at the intersection of business design, AI capability, and industry needs, this role transforms chance spaces into structured, scalable, commercially strong AI offerings that drive growth for the AI Market Unit.

This role is ideal for a product-minded consultant or solution designer who can blend conceptual thinking, business acumen, and AI literacy to build differentiated offerings that win in the market. Minded consultant or solution designer who can blend conceptual thinking, business acumen, and AI literacy to build differentiated offerings that win in the market.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Offering & Use Case Design
• Own conceptual and architectural design for prioritized AI use cases and offerings.
• Translate business problems, industry signals, and AI capabilities into structured solution blueprints.
• Develop narratives, workflows, and design artifacts that illustrate the art of the possible and competitive differentiation.
• Value Proposition Development & Collateral Creation
• Build business value frameworks, impact models, and client-ready point of view documents ofview documents.
• Create reusable offering assets including pitch decks, one-pagers, POVs, demo scripts, and solution differentiators.
• Align offerings with market demand, competitive insights, and Cognizants internal capability landscape.
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