Applied AI Strategist - Manager - Location OPEN
Location: Anywhere in Country
About the role
Join our Applied AI team as a Manager and be at the forefront of building and deploying AI solutions that create measurable value for private equity clients and their portfolio companies. You'll lead both technical and non-technical project teams in the development, deployment, and adoption of production-grade AI solutions and the data infrastructure beneath them. With your specialized knowledge in AI/ML engineering and delivery methods, you'll coach others and propose solutions to technical constraints, ensuring project success.
Responsibilities
- Lead workstream delivery — architecting, building, and shipping AI solutions — and tracking project status
- Manage engagement economics and resource planning
- Conduct code and design reviews and provide technical mentorship to your team
- Identify opportunities for additional services and lead specific RFP responses
- Focus on quality and risk management while driving continuous process improvement
- Guide your team and interpret internal and external issues to recommend innovative solutions
- Meet performance objectives in client service, sales, business growth, and teaming
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years relevant experience
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience deploying AI/ML solutions on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)
- Technical skills in generative AI application development — LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and prompt/context engineering
- Proficiency in MLOps and DevSecOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Experience building data and ML pipelines (e.g., Spark, Kafka) supporting production workloads
Skills
- Adept at developing solutions to complex problems and recommending changes to client processes, data, and architecture
- Skilled in selecting models, frameworks, and deployment patterns for obtaining reliable results
- Capable of exercising judgment in decision-making processes, including security, risk, and responsible AI considerations
- Strong client trust and value orientation
- Excellent communication skills with impact, including experience leading client presentations and architecture reviews
- Experience contributing to business development — proofs of concept, technical capture, or proposal responses
- Knack for complex problem-solving and critical thinking
- High degree of learning agility and emotional agility
- Experience in leading teams and managing change
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. Benefits include:
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Flexible vacation policy
- Designated EY Paid Holidays
- Winter/Summer breaks
- Personal/Family Care and other leaves of absence to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
Pay
The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $128,400 to $235,300. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $154,000 to $267,400. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
Schedule
Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.