Assistant Director, Enterprise AI & Analytics Consulting

What You'll Do

• Own and maintain an enterprise-level backlog of AI and analytics opportunities across innovation, execution, and business-led initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy and value priorities.
• Proactively partner with business and technical teams to identify and shape AI and analytics opportunities, turning ambiguous ideas into execution-ready use cases with clear requirements and success measures.
• Lead intake, prioritize against strategic value, and guide initiatives through the product lifecycle to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Establish and lead portfolio governance processes for intake, evaluation, prioritization, and lifecycle management of AI use cases.
• Build and communicate clear value cases for initiatives, including expected business impact, ROI, KPIs, and success metrics to support investment and prioritization decisions.
• Guide portfolio vision, product discovery, and roadmap development, ensuring strong integration with broader enterprise AI strategy and priorities.
• Drive end-to-end visibility into AI portfolio performance and value realization, using data to monitor progress, influence decisions, and continuously refine priorities.
• Collaborate across business, data, technology, and delivery teams to ensure solutions are feasible, aligned, and positioned to create measurable impact.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, analytics, technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of related experience in an enterprise environment.
• Experience leading or contributing to enterprise portfolios, backlogs, or innovation pipelines, ideally within AI, analytics, data, or digital-focused work.
• Ability to lead and translate complex or ambiguous business problems into well-defined, execution-ready opportunities.
• Experience developing business cases, defining KPIs, and measuring value realization for data, analytics, or AI initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize large amounts of information into clear recommendations.
• Comfort working across multiple stakeholders and functions, influencing priorities and decisions at different levels of the organization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tell a clear story with data and ideas.
• Curious, adaptable, strategic thinker, and have a continuous improvement approach.

• Experience working with AI, advanced analytics, or enterprise data initiatives.
• Familiarity with portfolio governance, product discovery, and roadmap planning.
• Strong understanding of value measurement frameworks such as ROI, business case development, and KPI design.

Base salary: $130,000 – $170,000 per year. Compensation may be augmented by bonus programs, sales incentives, or performance-based bonus plans. Final compensation is determined at the time of offer and is based on geographic location, experience, education, licensure, and skill level.

Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees, allowing paid time away from the office for vacation, personal, or short-term illness. Employees do not accrue a bank of time off under FTO and no set number of days is provided.

In‑office and hybrid arrangement in Des Moines, IA. Hybrid blending requires at least three office days per typical workweek.

This position does not consider applicants needing immigration sponsorship at this time.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.