AI Lead Consultant in Winnipeg

We are excited to find an experienced and motivated individual to join our team and help us drive successful project outcomes. Remote work mode, with travel for key client meetings and workshops.

Experience: 12-15 years | Vacancy: 2

Introduction: We are looking for AI Lead consultants. As AI Lead Consultant, you will answer critical questions in the room, sitting at the intersection of pre-sales consulting, engagement leadership, and AI capability building. You will be accountable for turning executive ambition into a roadmap that our delivery teams can build.

Day to day, you will:

• Run discovery workshops with client leadership.
• Size and prioritise AI use cases.
• Build business cases and ROI models to secure programme funding.
• Partner with Sales and practice leadership to shape proposals, pitches, and RFP responses.
• Stay with the engagement as the onsite consulting lead to ensure delivery aligns with what was sold.
• Sharpen our toolkit, including frameworks, accelerators, and playbooks.
• Mentor consultants and engineers transitioning into client-facing AI work.

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Sales and Solution Consulting: Partner with Sales and practice leadership to shape AI proposals, pitches, and solution narratives for clients. Run discovery and ideation workshops to surface goals, pain points, data readiness, and organisational constraints. Own the AI solution story in RFP responses and bid defences.
• Business Case and Roadmap Definition: Build ROI models and business cases that quantify value, cost, and payback period for each candidate use case. Sequence AI adoption roadmaps across quick wins, platform foundations, and transformational bets. Define success measures with the client before build starts.
• Engagement Leadership: Act as the onsite engagement lead for AI consulting and implementation programmes. Govern scope, risk, and stakeholder alignment across the engagement.
• Capability and Practice Building: Develop and refine proprietary AI frameworks, methodologies, accelerators, and reusable toolkits. Mentor consultants and engineers and run internal enablement sessions. Publish thought leadership and represent Robosoft at client and industry forums.

Requirements:

• 12 to 15 years in consulting, digital transformation, or AI and analytics programmes.
• Proven pre-sales or solution consulting experience with executive-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated engagement or programme leadership on AI or analytics initiatives.
• Track record of building business cases and ROI models that secured programme funding.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• Based in Canada, with the ability to travel occasionally for key client meetings.

Additional Skills:

• Executive communication and storytelling.
• Stakeholder management across levels.
• Workshop facilitation with mixed business and technical groups.
• Written fluency in proposals and case studies.

Core Skills:

• AI and ML fundamentals.
• Generative AI and LLMs.
• MLOps and AI governance.
• Business case and ROI modelling for technology investments.
• Pre-sales consulting craft.
• Engagement and programme management for multi-workstream delivery.

Good to Have:

• Cloud AI platform experience.
• Modern data platform knowledge.
• Published thought leadership.
• Prior experience in a consultancy or digital engineering services firm.
• Cloud or AI certifications from a major provider.

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