Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Escalent is a data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. The Senior Consultant, AI Enablement will support the AI and Innovation Hub by operationalizing AI tools, contributing to AI product development, enabling internal adoption, and advancing AI-driven workflows and solutions.
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
- Liaise with various tool vendors to understand functional possibilities, evaluate use case fitment, and assess commercial viability
- Partner with Compliance and IT teams to vet and whitelist specific tools for test/trials
- Conceptualize a trial program and secure licenses for testing
- Partner with domain/functional/corporate teams to test various tools to assess their effectiveness and value-add
- Prepare, maintain, and improve documents on AI-related processes, guidelines, and protocols
- Author self-learn collateral on the in-house and approved 3P tool mix, such as tool one-pagers, tool usage decision flowcharts, SharePoint pages and content, etc
- Where applicable, co-develop the development/implementation and scaling plan, in collaboration with the tech, development, and product teams
- Where applicable/possible, adopt a hands-on approach on low-code/no-code/vibe-code agent development tools/environments to create the tool/agent
- Craft and co-implement alpha and beta testing plans, and internal and external rollout roadmaps, to ensure controlled testing, scaled launch, robust adoption, and continuous improvement
- Double up as an alpha tester focused on 'breaking' the product/feature/agent to ensure adequate stress-testing under various edge cases
Skills
- 5-7 years in delivering Market Research & Insights engagements across industries, focused on international markets
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Must Have: hands-on experience with AI and innovative tools + ability to quickly ramp-up on new ones
- Solid experience leading project-based engagements and delivering findings to client and internal stakeholders
- Strong exposure to internal process innovation/automation
- Some experience in cross-functional, enterprise-wide initiatives
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Collaborative leader with strong interpersonal skills, comfortable coaching and reviewing the work of junior colleagues
- Logical and creative thinker with astute analytical aptitude
- Consultative approach to problem solving
- Strong attention to detail
- Location: Remote – Ontario, Canada
- Travel: Minimal, based on project needs
- Big Plus: experience with low-code/no-code/vibe-code agent development and working with tech/development/product teams
Benefits
- Remote – Ontario, Canada
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