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**Job Title**
Chief Innovation Officer / AI & Technology Subject Matter Expert
**Role Summary**
Lead the identification, assessment, and rapid deployment of emerging AI technologies—particularly generative AI—to enhance consulting workflows, client delivery, and competitive positioning for a private‑equity strategy consulting firm. Act as the “fast‑follower” champion, building business cases, prototyping solutions, and establishing a repeatable AI adoption framework.
**Expectations**
- Deliver a continuous pipeline of vetted AI use‑cases with clear go/no‑go decisions.
- Accelerate time‑to‑value for AI‑enabled process improvements and service offerings.
- Achieve measurable ROI through efficiency gains, cost reductions, or new revenue streams.
- Institutionalize a data‑driven, repeatable process for evaluating, testing, and scaling AI capabilities.
**Key Responsibilities**
- **Market Scanning & Intelligence:** Monitor advances in GPTs, generative AI, and related ML technologies; assess relevance to professional services.
- **Opportunity Identification:** Partner with consulting leaders to map workflows, pinpoint automation/augmentation opportunities, and prioritize based on feasibility and ROI.
- **Business Case Development:** Rapidly construct data‑backed business cases; recommend pilot, scale, or sunset decisions.
- **Rapid Prototyping & Deployment:** Lead proof‑of‑concept projects, coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage change, and track performance metrics.
- **Continuous Learning & Playbook Management:** Maintain deep AI expertise, refine the AI adoption playbook, and disseminate insights across the organization.
**Required Skills**
- Expertise in GPTs, generative AI, and broader AI/ML technologies.
- Proven ability to evaluate and implement AI tools in a business environment.
- Strong strategic, analytical, and business‑acumen mindset.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and senior‑level stakeholder management.
- Experience building rigorous, fast‑track business cases and ROI models.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing settings and pivoting priorities.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Relevant AI/ML certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Machine Learning, Google Cloud Professional ML Engineer, Coursera/edX AI specializations) are a plus.
- No specific consulting certification required, but familiarity with management consulting processes is advantageous.