Knowledge Engineering Industry Leader - Insurance, CMT, or Retail

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 151,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Chicago is seeking a senior Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within your vertical. You will steer methodology, curate the industry ontology, and advocate encoded industry knowledge as a competitive moat.

You will lead with domain fluency, AI know-how, and executive-level collaboration, while travelling as required to meet client needs. 12+ years in the industry and 3+ years translating domain knowledge into data products are expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years in your industry; 3+ years translating domain knowledge into data products or AI use cases.
• Minimum 5 years collaborating with industry executives (CTO/CDO/etc.).
• Fluency with knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• At least 2 years publishing or speaking publicly on AI in your industry.
• 3+ years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology.

Responsibilities

• Own the methodology for the industry digital-brain discipline across your vertical.
• Own the asset portfolio: industry ontology, vertical patterns, regulatory hooks.
• Own the technical point of view as the industry voice in external forums.
• Travel may be required; travel percentage varies with client needs.

Skills

Industry knowledge in AI/data products

Knowledge graphs/taxonomies

Public speaking / publishing on AI

Productization / offering ownership

Executive stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

About Accenture
Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

We Are:

Accenture is recognized as a global leader in AI and cloud transformation, helping businesses across industries reimagine the digital core for an AI-native operating model. Through partnerships with frontier AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, and the leading cloud providers, Accenture delivers end-to-end services that drive innovation and business agility.

The Digital Core Reinvention practice builds industry super-ontologies: industry- and ecosystem-specific agentic AI and data engines that encode how a vertical actually operates — its entities, its regulations, its rhythms — so AI systems can reason inside the industry rather than about it.

You Are:

A rare double profile: deep industry fluency in at least one of insurance, communications & media, or retail, married to real knowledge-engineering craft.

You've sat with the chief underwriting officer and the ontologist and translated between them.

This is the senior technical track at Accenture: we hire people here who would rather own a methodology than carry a number.

The Work:

As an Associate Director in this family you are the technical owner of the industry digital-brain discipline in your vertical. Concretely, that means three things at once:

You own the methodology.

• Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift — yours to defend and evolve.

You own the asset portfolio.

• The industry ontology itself, the vertical agent patterns, the regulatory hooks — assets that compound engagement over engagement.

You own the technical point of view.

• You are the named industry voice — analyst conversations, industry councils, the public argument for encoded industry knowledge as competitive moat.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you need

• 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. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Professional Skills Required:

• Demonstrated ability to walk into a client executive's office and earn the room on technical depth alone.
• A clear, defensible point of view on the current AI frontier — what's real, what's hype, what matters in 18 months — that you can articulate publicly.

Bonus Points if You Have:

• A regulatory-change war story you can tell with dates.
• Experience shipping an industry data or knowledge product that outlived its first engagement.
• Ecosystem-partnership experience (platforms, data providers, industry bodies).
• Comfort being outranked on pipeline conversations and outvoting on technical ones.
• A track record of editing methodology the way engineers edit code.
• Frontier-partner relationships (Anthropic, OpenAI, hyperscaler AI orgs, or equivalent).

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/04/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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