AI-Driven Strategy Consultant

Capgemini Invent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent seeks a Strategist at the Consultant level to contribute to business, product, and experience strategy workstreams within multidisciplinary design and innovation engagements.

You will collaborate with Designers, Technologists, Researchers, Product Managers, and Program Managers to ensure customer and business value are embedded in products, services, and experiences. You will use market dynamics, insights, and foresight to identify growth and shape differentiated offerings.

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of relevant experience across strategy consulting, corporate strategy and innovation, product management, product marketing, design research, investment banking, or a related field.
• Strong qualitative, quantitative, commercial, and analytical problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to connect customer needs, market dynamics, emerging trends, and commercial considerations into a cohesive strategic point of view.
• Experience supporting business, product, experience, innovation, or growth strategy initiatives.
• Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative research methods, market analysis, competitive analysis, trend analysis, and opportunity assessment.
• Ability to use AI, generative AI, analytics, or other intelligence-enabled approaches to enhance research, synthesis, analysis, ideation, or solution development.
• Understanding of how emerging technologies, including AI, may influence future products, experiences, services, and business models.
• Ability to evaluate the customer and commercial implications of strategic opportunities and recommendations.
• Strong written, verbal, visual, and presentation skills, with the ability to structure and communicate a compelling point of view on complex topics.
• Curiosity about new businesses, products, experiences, technologies, consumer behaviors, and cultural trends shaping the present and future.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic consulting environment while managing multiple priorities and contributing to high-quality client deliverables.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is expected. An MBA or other advanced degree may be beneficial but is not required.

Responsibilities

• Design, conduct, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research, using AI-enabled research and synthesis techniques where appropriate to uncover customer needs, identify patterns, and validate opportunities.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis to identify emerging trends, competitive dynamics, white-space opportunities, and differentiated positioning.
• Apply foresight and futurecasting approaches to assess how technological, societal, consumer, and market trends may reshape industries, customer expectations, and future sources of competitive advantage.
• Synthesize customer, market, competitive, and future-oriented insights into clear opportunity areas, strategic hypotheses, and points of view that support client decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of innovative and commercially viable growth strategies, value propositions, business models, products, services, and experiences.
• Explore how emerging technologies, including AI and generative AI, can enable new customer experiences, products, services, and business models.

Skills

AI literacy

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Facilitation

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Capgemini Invent seeks a Strategist at the Consultant level to contribute to business, product, and experience strategy workstreams within multidisciplinary design and innovation engagements.

You will collaborate with Designers, Technologists, Researchers, Product Managers, and Program Managers to ensure customer and business value are embedded in products, services, and experiences. You will use market dynamics, insights, and foresight to identify growth and shape differentiated offerings.