[Hiring] Consulting AI Director @Baker Tilly

Role Description

Baker Tilly is seeking a senior consulting leader with deep applied AI expertise to define and lead the next phase of AI activation across our national consulting business. The firm has already established enterprise AI infrastructure and completed significant use-case identification. The opportunity now is to translate that foundation into a clear vision, an actionable portfolio of priorities, and measurable changes in how consulting services are delivered.

This is a business leadership role—not ownership of the underlying AI technology platform or technical delivery organization. The Director must bring enough technical depth to engage credibly with architects, engineers, data professionals, security teams, and platform owners; critically evaluate proposed approaches; challenge assumptions, estimates, constraints, and tradeoffs; and direct technical requests toward the business outcomes Consulting requires. The role will partner closely with the team responsible for OpenAI Enterprise (Anthropic and other tools in consideration), ensuring that technical decisions reflect real consulting workflows, economics, priorities, and adoption needs.

The successful candidate will combine consulting-business fluency, deep applied understanding of modern AI, strategic vision, commercial acumen, rigorous critical thinking, and strong executive influence. They will help practice leaders distinguish meaningful advances from market noise, envision new delivery models, understand revenue and margin implications, and prepare the consulting workforce for sustained change. They must also be comfortable constructively challenging technical teams when recommendations are insufficiently grounded in business value, user needs, practicality, or scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the vision and activation strategy
• Reimagine consulting services and economics
• Develop business cases and decision frameworks
• Direct business-to-technology translation and challenge
• Drive adoption and workforce readiness
• Create operating discipline and measurable progress

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant professional credential preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in consulting, professional services, AI-enabled transformation, digital strategy, operating-model design, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI to redesign business processes, knowledge work, service delivery, or professional workflows—not solely managing technology implementation.
• Strong understanding of consulting or professional-services economics, including pricing, utilization, leverage, capacity, revenue growth, and profitability.
• Proven ability to develop strategy, build business cases, prioritize a portfolio of opportunities, and move initiatives from concept through adoption and scale.
• Deep working knowledge of modern AI technologies and solution patterns, including generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, data and integration requirements, model limitations, evaluation, security, and human oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to engage architects, engineers, data professionals, and platform teams; frame effective technical requests; evaluate proposed approaches and estimates; identify gaps or weak assumptions; and constructively challenge technical recommendations.
• Exceptional critical-thinking and decision-making skills, including the ability to synthesize incomplete information, assess competing alternatives, distinguish genuine constraints from organizational preferences, and connect technical choices to business consequences.
• Executive-level communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-influence skills, including the ability to communicate complex AI and technology concepts in practical business terms.
• Experience partnering across business, technology, risk, legal, security, learning, and change-management functions.
• Strong judgment regarding responsible AI, data sensitivity, client confidentiality, intellectual property, human review, and quality control.

Requirements

• Leadership experience within a large, multi-service consulting or professional-services organization.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise generative AI platforms such as OpenAI Enterprise, (Anthropic and other tools in consideration), custom GPTs, AI agents, knowledge retrieval, workflow automation, or related capabilities.
• Experience creating or scaling AI-enabled offerings, delivery methods, accelerators, centers of excellence, champion networks, or enterprise adoption programs.
• Experience leading broad workforce enablement, knowledge-management, or capability-building initiatives.
• A visible body of applied work, measurable outcomes, or thought leadership demonstrating the ability to turn AI possibilities into sustained business value.

Benefits

• The pay rate range for this job position is $214,100 to $405,900.
• Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant’s skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location.
• Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.