Head of AI Platform Strategy & Growth

EY-Parthenon; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

EY-Parthenon, a leading strategy and transformation firm, is seeking a senior leader to drive neuro-symbolic AI products for enterprise clients in the US. You will own product strategy, guide cross-functional teams, and shape platform architectures that combine knowledge graphs, rules engines, and ML components.

You will collaborate with EY leadership to ensure governance, explainability, and commercial impact while advancing enterprise AI deployments.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or related field; 5 years of related work experience.
• 7+ years in product leadership, solution delivery, enterprise technology, or platform build roles.
• Proven experience building and launching enterprise-grade products.
• Willingness to travel and work beyond standard hours when necessary.
• Must reside in or be commutable to the office location.

Responsibilities

• Drive the full lifecycle of AI product development: problem framing, requirements, architecture, build, deployment, and scale.
• Translate complex business challenges into knowledge-driven AI product requirements, including reasoning engines, knowledge graphs, rules, and ML components.
• Ensure products and platforms adhere to enterprise standards for explainability, auditability, trust, and compliance.
• Develop a clear product vision and roadmap aligned to customer needs, economic impact, and technical feasibility.
• Define adoption, usage, and cost/value metrics that demonstrate measurable business outcomes.
• Shape pricing, packaging, and commercialization pathways for AI platforms and solutions.
• Guide the design of platform components including ontologies, semantic data layers, inference engines, ML integration, APIs, workflow orchestration, and user interfaces.
• Ensure platform scalability, modularity, and extensibility across multiple use cases.
• Lead decisions on architecture, tooling, integration patterns, and data pipelines.
• Lead teams across product management, engineering, knowledge engineering, design, data science/ML, and industry specialists.
• Establish OKRs, sprint structures, and delivery governance to ensure predictable, high-quality execution.
• Coach teams to operate with clarity, pace, and technical rigor.
• Serve as trusted advisor to client executives on AI strategy, product direction, and deployment models.
• Align product build with enterprise architecture, security, data governance, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Knowledge graphs and ontologies

Symbolic reasoning / rules engines

Machine learning integration patterns

Data modeling, lineage, governance

Executive communication

Leadership of cross-functional teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or other related field

Graduate degree with 3+ years of related work experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

EY-Parthenon, a leading strategy and transformation firm, is seeking a senior leader to drive neuro-symbolic AI products for enterprise clients in the US. You will own product strategy, guide cross-functional teams, and shape platform architectures that combine knowledge graphs, rules engines, and ML components.

You will collaborate with EY leadership to ensure governance, explainability, and commercial impact while advancing enterprise AI deployments.