Director, AI Transformation

Description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A& M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action- and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and helping them reach their potential. A& M is different by design: we give people ownership and impact from day one, fuel development through real opportunity, and provide direct access to leaders who invest in our growth. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact clients and shape our industry. Guided by A& M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity, our collaborative, globally minded environment is why our people love working at A& M.

The Team

A& M is seeking a Director to join A& M IQx, our AI-focused business unit. We design, build, and deploy AI solutions that help clients eliminate manual work, move faster, and deliver measurable results across industries.

This is a technical leadership and consulting role, which includes both hands-on building, solution design, workstream leadership, and client advisory. You will own solution architecture, lead a project workstream, build the most complex components yourself, mentor Associates and Senior Associates, and serve as a trusted advisor to client executives. You will take solutions from proof of concept through secure, enterprise-scale production, and help shape proposals and pursuits with business unit leadership.

AI Transformation Practice

The AI Transformation team helps private equity firms, their portfolio companies and corporate clients drive value through applied AI. Our engagements span:

• Diligence & Strategy
  • AI disruption diligence
  • AI strategy and operating model design
• Cost & Margin
  • Margin expansion and cost optimization through automation and analytics, including AI-enabled zero-based optimization
  • Process redesign and workflow transformation
• Growth & Product
  • AI-enabled product builds and digital capabilities
  • New growth initiatives powered by data and advanced analytics
• Execution & Value Tracking
  • End-to-end transformation execution, governance and value tracking

We align AI initiatives with investment theses and corporate strategy, financial targets, and operational realities to ensure durable impact.

How will you contribute

As a Director in the AI Transformation team, you will lead AI-driven value creation engagements for private equity firms, their portfolio companies and corporate clients, and turn pipeline into delivery. You will own the engagement from scope to results: redesigning how processes run, putting AI to work in real workflows, and making sure the financial outcomes are achieved and sustained.

This role is for a hands-on engagement leader who has redesigned processes and implemented AI or automation in practice, not just in strategy decks, and who is comfortable with portfolio company and corporate executives, and with technical teams alike.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development

• Support scoping and proposal development
• Contribute to client pitches, bootcamps and working sessions

Client Delivery

• Lead AI transformation engagements for PE-backed portfolio companies and corporate clients, owning scope, workplan, budget, deliverables and executive communication
• Lead teams of 3 to 8 across strategy, operations, technology and data, ensuring disciplined execution against defined financial targets
• Lead AI-focused diligence workstreams, assessing AI maturity, technical capabilities and value potential
• Build size-of-prize estimates and business cases that link AI opportunities to margin, cost and growth
• Develop AI-enabled operating models and transformation roadmaps grounded in operational feasibility
• Map current-state processes and workflows, and redesign them for a measured future state with AI embedded
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases by EBITDA impact, feasibility, data readiness and adoption effort
• Take priority use cases from prototype to pilot to adoption, working with the team's engineers, client technical teams and vendors
• Lead adoption and change management so new ways of working stick after the engagement ends
• Establish program governance, KPI tracking and reporting tied to value realization
• Oversee vendors and implementation partners, managing timelines, budgets and execution risk
• Report progress, risks and value delivered to client leadership and, on PE engagements, the sponsor

Practice Development

• Help build a net-new practice from the ground up, shaping its offerings, service lines and go-to-market as it grows
• Develop the reusable methods, playbooks, accelerators and AI tools that make each engagement faster and more repeatable than the last
• Turn engagement results into case studies, credentials and thought leadership, including white papers, market updates and events
• Help recruit, onboard and develop the team: interviewing candidates, mentoring Managers and Associates, and building training
• Champion AI adoption inside the practice and the wider firm by sharing tools, prompts and new ways of working
• Bring lessons from the field back to practice leadership on what clients buy, what works and where to invest next

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 8-12+ years of experience in strategy or operations consulting, performance improvement, operational transformation or value creation roles
• A track record of process and operating model redesign, from current state to a measured future state
• Hands-on experience implementing AI or automation in real workflows, including adoption and change
• Experience leading complex, multi-workstream engagements with measurable financial outcomes
• Strong program management and governance experience
• Experience working with private equity firms or PE-backed portfolio companies, and with corporate clients

AI & Technology Fluency

• Advanced, everyday user of AI tools (AI assistants, coding assistants and agent platforms) for research, analysis, modeling and client deliverables
• Builds proofs of concept and working prototypes with ease, using AI coding assistants, low-code and automation platforms, APIs or agent frameworks, and puts them in front of clients
• Comfortable working hands-on with real client data: preparing it, connecting it to AI tools, and testing outputs for accuracy
• Practical understanding of AI applications in business (automation, predictive analytics, generative AI, AI agents) and how they connect to enterprise systems and data
• Experience turning AI opportunities into operational and financial impact
• Able to engage credibly with executive stakeholders and technical teams alike
• Coding or data skills (e.g., Python, SQL) a plus

Preferred Background

• Director or Senior Manager at a top-tier strategy, Big 4 or operations consulting firm, in operations, performance improvement or digital transformation
• Or a program lead from a large-company AI or automation rollout, or a practitioner from an AI-enabled process firm
• Depth in an operational function (e.g., supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, finance operations, customer operations)
• MBA or advanced degree preferred

Your journey at A& M

At A& M, professional growth is tied directly to performance, not tenure. Our people take on meaningful, hands-on work supported by a performance development process that rewards contribution and fosters a culture of meritocracy. Stretch roles, evolving business needs, and firm growth create ongoing opportunities for ownership and building new skills, while direct access to senior leaders provides mentorship and real-time coaching along the way. We also prioritize your wellbeing through comprehensive benefits and resources. Together, these elements create an environment where high-performing professionals can continue to grow and advance from day one.

Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings' fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD& D, and disability coverages at rates determined periodically as well as a 401(k) retirement savings plan. Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive an annual discretionary contribution to their 401(k) retirement savings plan from Alvarez & Marsal. Additionally, employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave. The amount of vacation and personal days available varies based on tenure and role type. Click here for more information regarding A& M's benefits programs.

The salary range is $150, 000 - $225, 000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A& M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on several factors, including individual and firm performance. Please ask your recruiter for more details.

Must be authorized to work in the US without the need for employment-based sponsorship now or in the future. A& M will not sponsor applicants for US work visa status for this role.

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