AI Solutions Consulting Lead

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups.

That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

AI Solutions Consulting Lead

About Crowe Studio

Crowe Studio is a business unit dedicated to helping clients scale smarter, transform faster, and lead in a platform-driven economy. Built for speed and flexibility, Crowe Studio operates outside the constraints of traditional professional services delivery models, giving clients access to cross-disciplinary innovation, embedded AI capabilities, and global delivery resources-all in service of solving complex business challenges in faster, smarter ways.

Through Crowe Studio, the firm provides clients with an innovation partner focused on rapid execution, deep technology integration, and high-impact results. We're building the next generation of business models for professional services, where human expertise and AI are embedded within clients' operations to drive ongoing impact, not just deliver isolated projects.

As a member of Crowe Studio, you will help distinguish Crowe in the market and drive the firm's technology and innovation strategy. The future is powered by AI-come build it with us.

About Forward Deployed Engineering

The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Practice partners with organizations to accelerate AI-driven transformation through embedded consulting, hands-on solution delivery, and strategic capability building. Our consultants work directly alongside client teams to close the gap between AI potential and real-world business outcomes-guiding adoption strategies, leading delivery initiatives, and building the organizational capacity for sustained transformation.

Unlike traditional advisory models, FDE consultants bring both technical depth and consulting rigor, enabling clients to design, prototype, and deploy AI solutions  emphasize outcome ownership, ensuring that every engagement delivers measurable impact-not just recommendations.

Our consultants combine business analysis, AI fluency, and client-facing communication to help companies identify the right use cases, build the right solutions, and demonstrate measurable impact. We specialize in making AI accessible-turning complex technology into concrete business value for clients across industries.

Our engagements range from focused AI readiness workshops that define a clear transformation roadmap, to extended delivery partnerships where our consultants lead AI initiatives alongside client teams through to adoption and value realization.

About the Team

We invest in expertise. You'll have the time, space, and support to go deep on client engagements and build lasting technical and strategic mastery.

You'll work with cross-functional teams and client teams as a trusted advisor and domain expert.

We believe in continuous growth. Our team is committed to professional development and knowledge-sharing.

We protect balance. Our distributed team culture is grounded in trust and flexibility. We offer unlimited PTO, a flexible remote work policy, and a supportive environment that prioritizes sustainable, long-term performance.

About the Role

Role Overview

The AI Consulting Lead within the Forward Deployed Engineering practice owns complete AI transformation projects end-to-end, with full accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and deliverable quality. Operating on the Lead Track, the AI Consulting Lead serves as the primary client relationship owner, manages a team of direct reports, and proactively drives business development opportunities in coordination with the sales team. This role requires strong executive presence, strategic decision-making, and the ability to lead complex engagements in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.

In this role, you will:

• Own complete AI transformation projects end-to-end with full accountability for scope definition, timeline management, resource coordination, budget oversight, and deliverable quality
• Manage direct reports through formal performance management, career development planning, and team capability building
• Serve as primary client relationship owner, managing C-suite and stakeholder interactions, building trusted strategic partnerships, and ensuring long-term account alignment
• Drive solution development through use case identification, prioritization, validation, data exploration, experimentation design, and…