[Hiring] Principal Consultant @Lightworks

Role Description

Lightworks Principal Consultants are senior technology leaders who combine institutional credibility, executive presence, and the technical judgment required to deliver complex programs inside regulated environments. Principals are expected to operate as trusted advisors to client executives, shape complex programs, lead delivery teams, and contribute directly to Lightworks’ commercial growth.

This role spans two core service streams, both requiring leadership experience within governed environments and the ability to turn executive priorities into enterprise-scale delivery.

• Agentic Control Plane (ACP)
  • The ACP is Lightworks’ flagship joint development program, built in partnership with several of the world’s largest and most regulated institutions.
  • Principals embedded in ACP work inside an industry-led engineering consortium alongside distinguished engineers and institutional leaders from across financial services, telecommunications, and insurance.
  • You will be on the engineering team building the systems, working with frameworks such as LangFuse, LangGraph, Agent Gateway, and related orchestration and observability platforms to develop the control infrastructure that governs how AI is deployed at scale.
  • The platform currently processes over 2 trillion tokens per month.
  • You will be providing hands-on execution of the deliverables.
• CTO-as-a-Service
  • Direct execution support of mission-critical and strategic programs across AI, cloud, data, and migrations.
  • Lightworks seconds a principal directly into the client’s existing executive team where clients require embedded executive technology leadership.
  • CTOaaS engagements are delivered exclusively by luminaries with proven experience at CTO and SVP levels, operating within regulated enterprises with $1B+ technology budgets.
  • Principals embed alongside existing executive team members and operate effectively across complex vendor landscapes.
  • All engagements are structured to strengthen internal capability and transition leadership to permanent teams, not exceeding 24 months.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, electronics, or another STEM-related field.
• Hyper-scale certifications at the Associate or Professional level are required.

Requirements

• 10+ years of demonstrated delivery experience in senior technology leadership roles, 3+ of which inside a highly regulated institution – financial services, insurance, telecommunications, or government.
• Demonstrated consulting, professional services, or advisory experience with evidence of owning outcomes at meaningful scale.
• Evidence of contributing to business development, executive relationship management, proposal leadership, or scope expansion.
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise AI capabilities – LLM gateways, model inference routing, model guardrails, and agent orchestration frameworks inside regulated environments.
• Exceptional communication range - able to work effectively with engineers, CIOs, regulators, and board-level stakeholders without losing precision or credibility at any level.
• Collaborative leadership style that builds trust quickly, earns credibility and raises the standard of the teams around you.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation with performance bonus, aligned with industry standards.
• Full benefits package and stock options plan participation.
• Direct access to the ACP platform and consortium - a first-of-its-kind program at the frontier of regulated AI.
• Close collaboration with the Lightworks Principals and founding team across strategy, delivery, platform development and client growth.
• Opportunity to shape how the world’s most regulated institutions govern and scale agentic AI.