Business Practitioner, Agentic AI Senior Manager/Associate Director

What you'll do

• Lead origination and pre-sales solutioning for high-impact agentic AI opportunities.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor on active client engagements to guide architecture and technical risk.
• Guide delivery teams on AI governance, operating models, and responsible AI posture.
• Advise on Microsoft platform applications including Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and Fabric.
• Build defensible proposals and SOWs by defining solution scope, staffing models, and risk postures.
• Craft board-level narratives and facilitate executive workshops to secure sponsorship and funding.
• Develop reusable accelerators and repeatable delivery patterns to build cross-functional team capability.
• Coordinate with Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft teams to co-innovate and co-deliver solutions.

What we're looking for

• Minimum of 10 years in consulting or technology, including 3+ years as a senior technical practitioner on cloud, data, or AI programs.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience crafting solution options, estimates, delivery models, risk mitigations, and collaborating on pricing and governance.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on architecture or supervision experience with Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Agent Service, Azure ML, Prompt Flow, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across strategy, industry, data/AI engineering, and change management.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience); Associate’s degree requires minimum 6 years work experience.
• Practical knowledge of Responsible AI, identity, security, data governance, and deployment guardrails for enterprise AI.
• Strong C-level communication and consulting skills with the ability to lead large, multidisciplinary technical teams.