AI Frontier Principal: Enterprise Transformation Lead

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Disability coverage

Paid parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Principal to lead AI-augmented delivery strategies and frontier operating models for enterprise clients. You will co-design transformations with C-suite leaders, define frontier-model evaluation and safety frameworks, and govern risk and incident response while owning the Frontier practice's P&L and standards.

With 20+ years in enterprise AI leadership, you will drive learning communities, set coe methodologies, and shape external thought leadership across ISL

Qualifications

• 20+ years in enterprise AI leadership with recognised authority.
• Frontier leadership and external authority, earned designation.
• Strong experience in C-suite advisory and enterprise AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction for AI-augmented delivery and AI-era operating models.
• Co-design AI transformation strategies with C-suite stakeholders and produce blueprints.
• Define evaluation frameworks for frontier-model deployment and safety benchmarks.
• Govern adversarial-AI risk and lead incident-response at the enterprise perimeter.
• Own Frontier practice direction and P&L; structure outcome-based commercial models.
• Maintain Frontier learning community, methodologies and CoE standards.

Skills

AI transformation strategy

Frontier-model evaluation

Red-team governance

Adversarial ML & AI safety

C-suite engagement

P&L leadership

Talent development

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Principal to lead AI-augmented delivery strategies and frontier operating models for enterprise clients. You will co-design transformations with C-suite leaders, define frontier-model evaluation and safety frameworks, and govern risk and incident response while owning the Frontier practice's P&L and standards.

With 20+ years in enterprise AI leadership, you will drive learning communities, set coe methodologies, and shape external thought leadership across ISL