Sr Consultant - IT Strategy Consulting - AI

Gartner; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

401k match up to $7,200 per year

Stock purchase program at a discount

Job summary

Gartner Consulting seeks a Senior Consultant to lead AI-driven client engagements, bridging hands-on analysis with emerging workstream leadership. You will own workstreams, guide junior consultants, and translate Gartner research into practical, decision-ready client outcomes.

The ideal candidate has hands-on AI deployment experience in a consulting context and can communicate with senior stakeholders to drive strategy and governance across engagements.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years in consulting/technology with meaningful AI exposure.
• Structured thinking and problem-solving with independent analysis.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI solutions/agents.
• Ability to translate Gartner research into client-ready deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more workstreams within a broader engagement, managing scope and timelines.
• Conduct primary and secondary research and synthesize clear insights.
• Develop core artifacts: maturity assessments, roadmaps, business cases.
• Distinguish signal from noise in AI to provide tangible recommendations.
• Lead and coach junior consultants and contribute to proposals.

Skills

Structured thinking

Problem-solving

Technical literacy

Storytelling

Excel/Power BI

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

AI platforms: Copilot Studio

Amazon Bedrock

Azure AI Foundry

Google Vertex AI

OpenAI Enterprise

Claude for Enterprise

Job description

Role Overview

Gartner Consulting is seeking a Senior Consultant with strong fluency in artificial intelligence to serve as a core delivery leader on high-impact client engagements. Sitting between Consultant and Engagement Manager levels, this role blends hands-on analytical work with emerging workstream leadership-owning discrete pieces of an engagement, guiding junior consultants, and translating Gartner's research and methodologies into practical, decision-ready client outcomes. The Senior Consultant is a rising trusted advisor who can hold their own in front of senior client stakeholders while driving the day-to-day delivery that makes engagements successful. The ideal candidate for this role has hands-on experience developing and deploying AI solutions in a consulting context.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery

• Own one or more workstreams within a broader engagement-managing scope, timeline, analysis, and quality with limited oversight.
• Conduct primary and secondary research: client interviews, workshops, data collection, benchmarking, and synthesis into clear insights.
• Build the core analytical and storyline artifacts: maturity assessments, current-state diagnostics, agentic process reinvention, use-case prioritization matrices, roadmaps, and business cases.
• Distinguish signal from noise in a fast-moving AI landscape, ensuring recommendations are tangible, specific, and grounded in client context.

AI Domain Contribution

• Apply working fluency across the modern AI stack and it's place in an enterprise environment: understanding function-specific enterprise use cases for AI, and the implications to enable them across the organization (business requirements, IT implications, governance/operational)
• Technical knowledge of one or more AI-enabled platforms (e.g., Copilot Studio)
• Support AI strategy, operating-model design, data-readiness, and responsible-AI governance workstreams with credible technical depth.
• Connect AI solution choices to business value, cost, risk, and change-management considerations.
• Contribute to reusable accelerators and IP (e.g., AI Clinic/Lab tools, frameworks, templates) for the AI Center of Excellence.

Technical Delivery

• Build and configure generative AI solutions and/or agents using one or more core AI platforms (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI Enterprise, Claude for Enterprise), including prompt design, workflow orchestration, knowledge grounding, testing, and deployment support.
• Translate business and functional requirements into working AI-enabled prototypes, solution components, and implementation-ready recommendations that can be evaluated with client stakeholders and technical teams.

Client Interaction

• Serve as a day-to-day client contact for assigned workstreams, building credibility with mid-to senior-level stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions, capturing outcomes and translating them into next steps.
• Communicate findings crisply through executive-quality decks, models, and written summaries.

Team & Capability Support

• Guide and coach junior consultants and analysts, reviewing work products and modeling delivery standards.
• Contribute to proposals, scoping, and thought leadership as a subject-matter contributor.
• Help scale the AI Center of Excellence through case studies, offerings, and repeatable methods.

Required Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in management consulting, technology strategy, data/analytics, or enterprise transformation, with meaningful recent exposure to AI/data.
• Strong structured-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to own analysis independently.
• Solid technical literacy-able to engage credibly with technical teams while communicating clearly to business audiences.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI solutions and/or agents using one or more core AI platforms (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI Enterprise, Claude for Enterprise).
• Excellent storytelling, analytical modeling (Excel/Power BI), and written/verbal communication skills. Ability to develop bespoke interactive dashboards/tools is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI strategy, data strategy, or AI/ML implementation workstreams.
• Exposure to agentic AI, LLMOps, or enterprise data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Gartner research, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Experience across multiple industries (financial services, high-tech, professional services, public sector).

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities - opportunities that may not even exist right now - for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you'll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients' AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You'll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive - working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 113,000 USD - 133,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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