AI Functional Senior Consultant

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative AI, modern architectures, and industry experts to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.

Our world-class AI and ML professionals give Crowe the ability to capture and harness the power of data. A combination of Machine Learning Engineers and AI Platform and Infrastructure Engineers create and deploy AI functionality to solve complex problems. We focus on building scalable AI products, based on rigorous data exploration, validation via proof-of-concept buildout, and close partnership with subject matter experts across business areas.The future is powered by AI, come build it with us.

• We foster good science. You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your project and beyond; you will guide fellow MLEs and product stakeholders through your work.
• We want to make good scientists better. MLEs have plenty of options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, support for conferences, and weekly "10P" independent time for ongoing learning.
• We truly value work-life balance. Our distributed team offers unlimited PTO and a flexible work-from-home policy.

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

The AI Functional Senior Consultant profile represents the progression from supported execution to independent project ownership, combining deep AI consulting expertise with increasing client relationship management, business development contribution, and team development responsibilities across three progressive career stages. You will own end-to-end AI solution delivery from requirements through validation while building strategic client relationships, contributing to business development, and developing junior consultants through increasing levels of project complexity and leadership accountability.

Skills:

• Solution Ownership: Ability to independently manage complete AI solution lifecycles from discovery through validation with minimal supervision

• Advanced Client Management: Skilled at navigating complex stakeholder environments, managing C-suite relationships, and translating ambiguous business needs into technical requirements

• AI Solution Design: Deep expertise in Generative AI, ML applications, and cloud AI platforms with ability to architect solutions aligned to business value

• Business Development: Capability to identify opportunities, support proposal development, and contribute to pipeline generation through client relationship excellence

• Team Development: Mentoring and coaching abilities to develop junior consultants and contribute to team capability building

Responsibilities

• Solution Delivery: Own complete AI solution delivery from requirements gathering through validation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility

• Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strategic client relationships, independently managing stakeholder expectations and serving as trusted advisor on AI transformation

• Use Case Development: Lead identification, prioritization, and validation of AI opportunities through data exploration, experimentation, and Proof of Concept delivery

• Business Development: Actively contribute to pipeline generation through relationship management, opportunity identification, and support for proposal development

• Team Development: Mentor and develop junior consultants through formal coaching relationships, knowledge sharing, and collaborative project work

• Methodology Enhancement: Contribute to practice improvement through methodology refinement, tool development, and lessons learned documentation

• Process Intelligence: Conduct in-depth analysis of business processes, workflows, and data to map opportunities for automation by leveraging process mining and task mining tools (e.g., Microsoft Process Mining, Celonis, Minit, Apromore, ServiceNow)

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years in AI consulting, business analysis, or client-facing technology roles

• Demonstrated track record of successful AI project delivery, client relationship management, and stakeholder facilitation

• Experience progressing from workstream ownership to full project management with increasing complexity and autonomy

Preferred Qualifications:

• Successfully deliver AI solutions meeting quality standards with progressive improvement in on-time delivery rates (>90% at Senior I, >95% at Senior II/III)

• Build strong client relationships resulting in high satisfaction scores and repeat engagement opportunities

• Generate qualified leads and opportunities through relationship management and strategic client development (1-2 at Senior I, scaling to 3-5 at Senior III)

• Formally mentor junior team members with documented skill progression and positive feedback

• Maintain current expertise in evolving AI landscape and contribute thought leadership through internal knowledge sharing

• We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role/opening.

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We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:
Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

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