Frontier AI Strategy Leader

Cognizant; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Principal to shape the AI-augmented delivery strategy and operating model across enterprise accounts. The role partners with C-suite stakeholders to design transformation blueprints, define frontier-model evaluation frameworks, and govern adversarial AI risk and safety policies.

You will own the Frontier practice direction and its P&L, while nurturing a global learning community and set of standards.

Qualifications

• Core skills include AI transformation strategy, frontier-model evaluation and red-team governance.
• Competencies cover enterprise AI governance, safety, and C-suite advisory.
• Experience leading frontier-capability programs at senior levels.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AI transformation strategy

Frontier-model evaluation

Red-team governance

Adversarial-ML & AI safety policy

C-suite engagement

P&L leadership

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Frontier Principal to shape the AI-augmented delivery strategy and operating model across enterprise accounts. The role partners with C-suite stakeholders to design transformation blueprints, define frontier-model evaluation frameworks, and govern adversarial AI risk and safety policies.

You will own the Frontier practice direction and its P&L, while nurturing a global learning community and set of standards.