Senior AI Transformation Leader — Industrials

McKinsey; Darien (CT); On-site; USD 243,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Mentorship and development

Global community

Job summary

McKinsey & Company seeks a senior leader to shape and deliver AI-enabled transformation for industrial ecosystems, including automotive, machinery, aerospace, and semiconductors. You will guide client service teams, set technical direction, and drive architecture and execution across use cases from shaping to deployment.

You will mentor QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey practitioners, build secure data foundations, MLOps and governance, and partner with senior client leaders to translate strategy

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience applying data science, advanced analytics, and AI to drive measurable business impact in client-facing or senior stakeholder settings.
• Experience designing and scaling modern AI solutions, including production-grade machine learning, generative AI, and agentic or workflow-embedded AI approaches.
• Experience with data migrations, IT transformations (e.g., data lakes, platform warehouses, etc.) or enterprise implementations of CRM or ERP systems.
• Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary engineering and analytics teams (data science, data engineering, full-stack, platform, DevOps).
• Strong expertise with major cloud platforms and fluency in modern AI stacks (SQL, Python) and MLOps pipelines.
• Flexibility with travel between 40-80%.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a proven track record of establishing client relationships with successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Counsel clients and shape their AI agendas and roadmaps.
• Architect AI acceleration and transformation programs.
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery from use case shaping to deployment and adoption.
• Build scalable data foundations, MLOps, governance and security for repeatable AI delivery.
• Mentor QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey practitioners and client teams.

Skills

Industrial AI

Client leadership

Cloud platforms

LLM tooling

Python/SQL

Stakeholder management

Travel 40-80%

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

MLOps

CRM/ERP familiarity

Job description

McKinsey & Company seeks a senior leader to shape and deliver AI-enabled transformation for industrial ecosystems, including automotive, machinery, aerospace, and semiconductors. You will guide client service teams, set technical direction, and drive architecture and execution across use cases from shaping to deployment.

You will mentor QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey practitioners, build secure data foundations, MLOps and governance, and partner with senior client leaders to translate strategy