Industry Knowledge Leader: AI Ontology for Insurance & Retail

Accenture PLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 434,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within the California market at senior levels. You will drive ontology design, baseline industry work, and lifecycle management while engaging executives and shaping knowledge products for AI adoption.

Travel may be required; the role combines technical depth with client leadership, governance, and strategic industry storytelling at scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years in your industry, with at least 3 years translating domain knowledge into data products, ontologies, or AI use cases.
• Minimum of 5 years working alongside industry clients at the executive level (CTO / CDO / chief underwriting / chief merchandising, per vertical).
• Working fluency with knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Minimum of 2 years of publishing or speaking publicly on AI in your industry.
• Minimum of 3 years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology — not just consulting within one.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift — yours to defend and evolve.
• The industry ontology itself, the vertical agent patterns, the regulatory hooks — assets that compound engagement over engagement.
• You are the named industry voice — analyst conversations, industry councils, the public argument for encoded industry knowledge as competitive moat.

Skills

Industry ontology design

Knowledge graphs

Executive-level engagement

AI productization

Public AI thought leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within the California market at senior levels. You will drive ontology design, baseline industry work, and lifecycle management while engaging executives and shaping knowledge products for AI adoption.

Travel may be required; the role combines technical depth with client leadership, governance, and strategic industry storytelling at scale.