AI Transformation Advisory - Sr Manager

Huron; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron is a global consultancy helping clients drive growth and transform operations through AI. As a Senior Manager in AI Transformation Advisory, you will lead engagements, shape AI strategies, and deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions with senior executives across industries.

You will mentor consultants, manage multi-disciplinary teams, and influence C-suite decisions while promoting responsible AI practices and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8–10 years of consulting, technology, or transformation experience with AI/digital strategy.
• 3+ years leading AI/ML solution delivery, including Generative/Agentic AI.
• Ability to translate strategy into scalable AI roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP deployment architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements defining AI strategy, transformation roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Shape GTM initiatives for AI solutions with industry and capability leads.
• Oversee cross‑functional delivery teams across AI projects and governance.
• Advise executives on investments, operating models, and AI governance.
• Define AI solution portfolios including agentic systems and model lifecycle.

Skills

AI strategy

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

AI deployment architectures

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, CS, Engineering, or Data Science

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Huron’s AI Transformation team helps clients harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate growth, enhance decision-making, and reimagine the enterprise.

As a Senior Manager in AI Transformation Advisory, you’ll lead engagements that define how organizations design, deploy, adopt and scale AI with humans at the center. You’ll partner with executives and operational teams to craft AI strategies, drive innovation pipelines, empower new capabilities and adoption and deliver enterprise-grade solutions across industries.

This role blends business strategy, process redesign, technology fluency, leadership and coaching—ideal for a consultant who can move seamlessly between C-suite advisory and hands‑on engagement and problem solving.

Experience And Role Description

As a Sr Manager, you will:

• Lead client engagements focused on defining AI strategy, transformation roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Shape and drive go-to-market (GTM) initiatives for AI solutions in collaboration with industry and digital capability leads.
• Oversee multi-disciplinary teams delivering AI projects—ensuring alignment across process redesign, architecture, AI engineering, and change management.
• Advise senior executives on investment prioritization, operating models, and AI governance frameworks.
• Define and manage AI solution portfolios, including agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and model lifecycle management.
• Design and orchestrate multi-agent frameworks to automate knowledge work, enhance productivity, and improve decision-making.
• Serve as the “front door” for AI innovation, capturing market feedback, surfacing new ideas, and refining product/solution concepts.
• Promote responsible AI, embedding ethics, transparency, and security into every project.
• Mentor and develop consultants, building AI advisory expertise across the team.
• Contribute to firm growth through thought leadership, business development, and client relationship management.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science preferred.
• 8–10 years of experience in consulting, technology, or enterprise transformation roles, with a focus on AI or digital strategy.
• 3+ years of experience leading AI/ML solution delivery, including Generative and Agentic AI systems.
• Proven ability to bridge business and technology—translating strategic objectives into scalable AI roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of AI platform ecosystems (Azure, AWS, GCP) and deployment architectures.
• Demonstrated leadership managing cross-functional delivery teams and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills; ability to influence at the C-suite level.

Preferred

• Prior experience building or commercializing AI solutions or products within consulting or enterprise environments.
• Expertise in RAG architectures, orchestration frameworks, and agent design principles.
• Familiarity with AIOps / MLOps, data platform modernization, and cloud infrastructure.
• Certifications in cloud AI platforms (Azure AI Engineer, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional ML Engineer).
• Experience mentoring junior consultants and building AI delivery capability within teams.

Your Impact

As a Senior Manager, you’ll shape the future of how clients harness AI—guiding strategy, designing scalable architectures, and driving adoption. You’ll lead with both empathy and expertise, helping organizations innovate responsibly and realize measurable impact from AI.

The estimated base salary for this job is $175,000 - $190,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $201,250,000 - $237,500 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in future.

Position Level

Senior Manager

Country

United States of America