Senior Industry Knowledge Engineer Lead - Insurance & Retail

Accenture PLC; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 434,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and LTD

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & PTO

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to lead the industry digital-brain discipline within your vertical. You will own the ontology design, industry patterns, and regulatory hooks, while engaging with executive-level clients to translate domain knowledge into scalable data products and AI use cases.

You will drive discovery, build ontologies, and defend evolution as markets shift, serving as the primary voice in industry discussions and contributing to the company’s AI strategy across

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. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 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

Knowledge graphs

Taxonomies

Retrieval-augmented generation

Executive engagement

Public speaking on AI

Product ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to lead the industry digital-brain discipline within your vertical. You will own the ontology design, industry patterns, and regulatory hooks, while engaging with executive-level clients to translate domain knowledge into scalable data products and AI use cases.

You will drive discovery, build ontologies, and defend evolution as markets shift, serving as the primary voice in industry discussions and contributing to the company’s AI strategy across