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
• A knack for complex problem-solving and critical thinking
• A high degree of learning agility and emotional agility
• Experience in leading teams and managing change

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business
• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Wide range of paid time off options, including flexible vacation policy, designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence

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.