Knowledge-Engineering Leader for Insurance & Retail Ontology

Accenture PLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 434,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within a vertical. You will lead discovery, design super-ontologies, and manage lifecycle as markets evolve, shaping knowledge products that encode industry knowledge.

You will work with executives, publish on AI topics, and drive client engagements at CTO/CDO levels. Travel may be required; strong ownership of methodology and AI-driven solutions is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years in your industry, with at least 3 years translating domain knowledge into data products, ontologies, or AI use cases.
• Minimum 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).
• Demonstrated ability to walk into a client executive's office and earn the room on technical depth alone.

Responsibilities

• Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift — 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 knowledge

Ontology design

Knowledge graphs

Executive engagement

Public speaking on AI

Product ownership

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within a vertical. You will lead discovery, design super-ontologies, and manage lifecycle as markets evolve, shaping knowledge products that encode industry knowledge.

You will work with executives, publish on AI topics, and drive client engagements at CTO/CDO levels. Travel may be required; strong ownership of methodology and AI-driven solutions is expected.