Senior Strategist

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Strategist to lead strategy and discovery work end-to-end across complex client engagements. This role is ideal for an experienced analyst and strategist who can independently own the full arc of an engagement — from framing the problem through delivering a clear, actionable plan — while building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Craft & Delivery Lead AI and digital strategy engagements end-to-end, from opportunity discovery and problem framing through prioritization, roadmap creation, and pilot planning
• Map customer journeys, operational workflows, and decision points to identify where automation, AI, and digital solutions create measurable business lift
• Build and present compelling business cases that quantify value, define KPIs, and align executive and operational stakeholders on what success looks like
• Produce lightweight prototypes, agent demonstrations, and proof-of-concept experiences that make strategy tangible and testable for clients
• Partner with client SMEs to encode institutional knowledge into AI-ready assets including prompt libraries, evaluation examples, and retrieval corpora
• Define practical governance frameworks aligned to the client's risk posture covering responsible AI principles, privacy, human-in-the-loop controls, and escalation paths
• Shrink feedback loops by testing ideas early with real users and operational teams, iterating based on evidence rather than assumptions
• Translate between business and technical teams, ensuring strategy connects cleanly to delivery across design, data, engineering, and change management
• Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma AI — and agentic frameworks where relevant — to move faster than traditional consulting cycles

Collaboration & Communication

• Independently lead high-impact client sessions including executive briefings, ideation workshops, and process redesign sprints that move groups from ambiguity to a shared plan
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, serving as a reliable, consultative partner throughout the engagement
• Communicate complex findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to executive and non-technical audiences

Leadership & Influence

• Lead prioritization and scoping decisions by balancing business value, feasibility, risk, and delivery timelines
• Frame every engagement in terms of outcomes and impact, pushing back on solution-first thinking where needed
• Begin mentoring junior analysts, sharing knowledge and supporting their growth in craft and client skills

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, management consulting, product strategy, or a related role
• Deep understanding of AI concepts including LLMs, RAG, copilots, agents, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI principles
• Experience prototyping and launching AI products and workflows in production with Microsoft Azure Foundry and Azure Foundry Agent Service as the core cloud platform
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery and strategy end-to-end including stakeholder interviews, journey mapping, opportunity sizing, prioritization, and roadmap creation
• Strong applied experience with AI tools for strategy, prototyping, and productivity
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, agent workflows, and lightweight AI prototyping
• Practical understanding of what it takes to move from pilot to scale including data readiness, change management, adoption, and governance
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks