Principal Consultant - AI Strategy & Advisory

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead executive-level AI strategy discussions with SLED leaders, including CIOs, CDO's and program executives.

- Help agencies assess AI readiness and maturity, including data readiness, governance, workforce implications, and risk considerations.
- Guide agencies in identifying and prioritizing AI use cases that support mission outcomes in areas such as eligibility and enrollment, health and human services, customer contact centers, workforce programs, and compliance operations.
- Develop practical, phased AI roadmaps that balance innovation with public sector constraints (policy, procurement, security, fairness, explainability).
- Serve as engagement lead or senior advisor for AI strategy and advisory projects, accountable for quality and client satisfaction.
- Translate agency needs into actionable inputs for corporate AI and platform teams.
- Collaborate with delivery, analytics, and operations teams to support transition from strategy to execution.
- Help scope, structure, and price AI advisory engagements that are executable and outcome focused.

Corporate Collaboration & Internal Alignment

- Works in partnership with CDIO leadership, AI Accelerator teams, and enterprise platform teams to align client recommendations with:


* Available and emerging AI capabilities


* Enterprise governance and responsible AI standards


* Scalable, reusable delivery models

- Translate agency needs into actionable inputs for corporate AI and platform teams.

- Ensure AI advisory solutions are implementable, not purely conceptual, and align to organizational delivery capability.

- Collaborate with delivery, analytics, and operations teams to support transition from strategy to execution.

Business Development & Consulting Capture

- Support and lead responses to AI advisory and consulting procurements for SLED agencies.

- Contribute to proposal development, including AI strategy approaches, methodologies, and value propositions.

- Partner with Growth and Capture teams to shape opportunities early and align advisory offerings to client needs.

- Help scope, structure, and price AI advisory engagements that are executable and outcome focused.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.

- 10+ years of relevant professional experience required.

- Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
- 10+ years experience in consulting, advisory, or strategy roles, with significant SLED or public sector exposure.
- Demonstrated experience leading client facing strategy or advisory engagements, preferably involving technology enabled transformation.
- Experience responding to or supporting consulting style RFPs/RFQs.
- Strong working knowledge of AI concepts and trends (e.g., generative AI, automation, analytics), with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
- Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to non technical audi...