Principal Consultant

Job Title:

Principal Consultant

Location:

Dallas, TX – Onsite 4 days a week

The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and is a technology and strategy consultancy that aims to provide a competitive edge for its clients by solving complex problems with data, software, and strategy. They specialize in areas like technology strategy, product development, software engineering, and digital transformation, with a particular emphasis on AI, MLOps, and Data Engineering. The firm's clientele spans various industries, including AgTech, Healthcare, Logistics, and Financial Services.

You will lead teams working on GenAI, RAG, MLOps, and LLM initiatives, amongst others.

$180,000 – $240,000

• Executive Delivery & Engagement Leadership
  • Own the full delivery arc of major client engagements — from initial scoping and kickoff through final executive readout and handoff — with accountability for outcomes, not just activities.
  • Set the strategic and technical direction for each engagement: defining the problem correctly, structuring the approach, sequencing the work, and making the calls that keep delivery on track when reality diverges from the plan.
  • Lead cross‑functional delivery teams — architects, engineers, data scientists, and consultants — providing the clarity of direction, pace of decision‑making, and quality standards that determine whether an engagement succeeds.
  • Deliver executive‑level communications — steering committee presentations, CTO briefings, board‑level AI strategy readouts — that are technically grounded, strategically clear, and built to drive decisions rather than inform them.
• Executive Relationship Management
  • Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with C‑suite and VP‑level stakeholders at client organizations — not transactional relationships based on current delivery, but strategic relationships built on demonstrated insight, reliability, and the confidence that comes from being right about hard things.
  • Operate fluently across the full executive register: able to challenge a CTO's assumptions with evidence and respect, align a fractured executive team around a path forward, or deliver difficult findings in a way that preserves trust rather than fracturing it.
  • Identify expansion opportunities within existing client relationships — not through upselling, but through genuine understanding of where the client's next significant challenge lies and whether the company is the right partner to address it.
• Strategic AI Advisory
  • Shape how client organizations think about AI: not just what to build, but why, in what sequence, with what governance, and against what definition of business value — providing the strategic advisory that distinguishes a consulting partner from a staff augmentation vendor.
  • Lead AI strategy engagements: assessing organizational AI maturity, identifying high‑value opportunity areas, defining transformation roadmaps, and building the business case architecture that gets AI investments funded and sustained.
  • Connect technical strategy to business strategy: ensuring that AI architecture decisions reflect the client's competitive position, operational constraints, data maturity, and organizational capability to absorb and sustain change.
• Delivery Quality & Team Leadership
  • Set the quality bar for every engagement you lead: through direct review of key deliverables, active participation in critical technical decisions, and the consistent modeling of the standards you expect from your team.
  • Develop the next generation of the company’s consultants — through structured coaching, direct feedback on client interactions, and the deliberate creation of stretch opportunities that accelerate growth.

• 12+ years of professional experience in technology consulting, enterprise architecture, or strategic AI advisory — with a demonstrated track record of leading major client engagements at the C‑suite level.
• Proven ability to own the full delivery arc of complex, multi‑workstream engagements: setting direction, leading teams, managing executive relationships, and delivering outcomes that clients recognize as transformative.
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