Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant

About the role

The AI Consultant will play a central part in transforming AI opportunities into successful outcomes by coordinating the full lifecycle of AI projects and aligning clients with our technical experts.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements, clarify questions, and provide updates on progress, risks, and key decisions with clients.
• Support the project manager in planning and tracking delivery across multiple AI projects, maintaining project plans, action logs, RAID logs, and status reports.
• Partner with technical leads and team members to translate client needs into clear, actionable tasks, and monitor execution against agreed timelines and scope.
• Unblock dependencies, escalate risks, and ensure corrective actions are clearly owned and tracked to completion.
• Support reviews, testing, and validation activities, document processes, and adhere to delivery standards and methods.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the AI Practice by capturing lessons learned and developing playbooks and reusable assets.
• Coordinate with cross-service initiatives including AI strategy, AI assistants, custom models, process optimization, policy and procedure optimization, and data standardization/tagging.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of experience working in technical or engineering-focused environments supporting structured project delivery.
• Proven track record of coordinating activities across multiple teams and projects simultaneously, including stakeholder management, action tracking, and status reporting.
• Experience collaborating closely with IT, OT, data/AI, or engineering teams in enterprise or industrial settings.
• Exposure to cloud-based and data/analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, data platforms, BI/analytics tools); experience in the maritime or industrial sectors is a plus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities across multiple technical projects, teams, and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong organizational and project support skills, including maintaining project plans, action and RAID logs, documentation repositories, and structured status reports.
• Hands-on experience with common AI/data and IT/OT technology environments, including cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), data platforms, and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and workflows, and translate them into clear tasks and follow-up actions for delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence interacting with technical specialists, business stakeholders, and client counterparts.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured, detail-oriented approach to tracking issues, dependencies, and risks.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based repositories to support transparent and traceable project execution.
• Experience working with distributed, international teams and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities (strongly preferred).
• Awareness of industrial or maritime operational contexts, safety, or regulatory constraints, and how they impact AI and digital delivery (nice to have).

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and workflows, and translate them into clear tasks and follow-up actions for delivery teams.
• Strong organizational and project support skills, including maintaining project plans, action and RAID logs, documentation repositories, and structured status reports.
• Hands-on experience with common AI/data and IT/OT technology environments, including cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), data platforms, and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Structured, detail-oriented approach to tracking issues, dependencies, and risks.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based repositories to support transparent and traceable project execution.

Pay

$65,000 - $90,000 Starting salary is determined by multiple factors including skillset and experience.

Schedule

Location: This position can be based in Houston, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; or Washington, DC.