Senior Consultant, AI Enablement - Escalent

Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. As catalysts of progress for more than 40 years, our strategies guide the world’s leading brands. We accelerate growth by creating a seamless flow between primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data, providing consulting and advisory services from insights through implementation. Based on a profound understanding of what drives human beings and markets, we identify actions that build brands, enhance customer experiences, inspire product innovation, and boost business productivity. We listen, learn, question, discover, innovate, and deliver—for each other and our clients—to make the world work better for people.

Role Overview

This role sits within our AI and Innovation Hub — an enterprise-wide team focused on operationalizing and integrating AI tools and capabilities into our core business of research & consulting, as well as our corporate function workflows. Ultimately, this role actively contributes to our efforts to develop in-house and monetizable AI products and solutions to foster better, smarter, and efficient workflows.

As a research and advisory firm, the ideal candidate is an experienced professional with notable Strategy Research and/or Consulting experience, exposure to Workflow and Product Development, high degree of AI-and-tech savviness, and a Consultative and Impact oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong understanding of Escalent group's products, tools, solutions, and technological roadmap and use as context for AI initiatives related to company workflows and products.
• Demonstrate a strong capability to link findings and recommendations to desired business impact.
• Present findings and recommendations, while explaining approach and rationale, to various business teams as and when needed.
• Contribute to Escalent's ongoing and ever-expanding AI upskilling initiatives by conceptualizing ideas, developing collateral, and administering sessions.
• Organize and administer demos, show-n-tells, and lunch-n-learns among internal/external audiences to socialize the product/feature/agent, resolve queries, foster adoption, and gather constructive and actionable feedback.
• Exhibit a strong passion for AI and innovation, and stay updated on the latest developments, trends, product/model launches, etc. and their plausible impact on Escalent's AI strategy /approach/roadmap.
• Address internal queries on AI, innovation, and automation tools/techniques/approaches to ensure teams know when (and when not) to use AI, how to use it effectively + efficiently + ethically, which tool/feature/product/agent to leverage, and where to avoid pitfalls.
• Identify relevant AI/innovation tools for any use case, via desk research and internal outreach.