Lead Consultant

Job Description

What you will do

Strategic AI & UX Leadership

- Lead the design vision and strategy for complex AI-powered products and platforms across multiple client engagements

- Define and evolve design standards, frameworks, and best practices for AI-driven user experiences

- Conduct strategic design research to identify emerging user needs and market opportunities in the AI space

- Provide thought leadership on the future of AI-UX integration and its application across industry sectors

- Influence product roadmaps and business strategy through data-driven design insights and recommendations

Advanced AI & Machine Learning Integration

- Architect sophisticated AI-driven features and functionalities that deliver measurable business value and exceptional user experiences

- Partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and technical architects to design scalable AI solutions

- Evaluate and optimize AI model performance from a UX perspective, balancing technical capabilities with user expectations

- Design transparent, explainable AI interfaces that build user trust and understanding

Data Strategy, Analytics & Insights Leadership

- Lead the definition and execution of data strategies that underpin AI-powered products and services across client engagements

- Partner with data scientists, data engineers, and analytics teams to align data pipelines, models, and insights with user and business needs

- Translate complex datasets, model outputs, and analytics into clear, actionable insights that inform design decisions, product strategy, and roadmaps

- Define data-driven success metrics, KPIs, and experimentation frameworks to measure AI effectiveness, user trust, and business impact

- Guide teams in leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to validate assumptions, prioritize features, and optimize user experiences

- Evaluate data quality, bias, and representativeness, ensuring responsible and trustworthy use of data in AI-driven experiences

- Champion human-in-the-loop and data transparency practices, designing workflows where users can understand, challenge, and act on AI insights

Expert User Experience Design

- Lead end-to-end design processes for enterprise-scale projects, from discovery through delivery

- Conduct and oversee comprehensive user research programs

- Create sophisticated design artifacts including service blueprints, experience maps, design systems, and interactive prototypes

- Design complex, multi-platform experiences that seamlessly integrate AI capabilities across web, mobile, and emerging interfaces

- Oversee the design of data-rich user interfaces, including dashboards, analytics tools, and decision-support systems for enterprise users

Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration

- Lead design thinking workshops, innovation sprints, and co-creation sessions with various stakeholders, including C-suite

- Collaborate with product managers and business leaders to define product vision, strategy, and success metrics

- Bridge technical and business stakeholders, translating complex requirements into elegant design solutions

Responsible AI & Ethical Design

- Champion ethical AI practices and responsible design principles

- Proactively identify and mitigate fairness, bias, privacy, and transparency issues in AI-driven experiences

- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards across all design work

- Advocate for user rights, data privacy, and inclusive design throughout the organization

- Establish governance frameworks for ethical AI design practices

Google AI & Cloud AI Leadership

- Lead the design and delivery of AI solutions leveraging Google Cloud AI platforms, including Vertex AI, AutoML, and managed machine learning services

- Drive the adoption of Google Generative AI capabilities (e.g., large language models, embeddings, conversational AI) to create scalable, enterprise-ready user experiences

- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and cloud architects to architect end to end AI workflows on Google Cloud, from data ingestion to model deployment and monitoring

- Define use cases and solution patterns that balance custom models and Google-managed AI services, considering scalability, cost, performance, and risk

- Guide teams on MLOps best practices on Google Cloud, including model training, versioning, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management

- Ensure AI solutions built on Google Cloud follow responsible AI, privacy, and security principles, including explainability, fairness, and transparency

- Collaborate with client stakeholders to align Google AI capabilities with business strategy, regulatory requirements, and digital transformation roadmaps

- Evaluate and experiment with emerging Google AI services and features, translating platform advancements into practical enterprise use cases

- Provide technical and strategic leadership in designing AI-powered products that integrate Google Cloud data services (e.g., BigQuery, analytics platforms)

- Support pre sales and client engagements by shaping Google AI solution architectures, proposals, and value cases

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field

- At least 3-5 years focused on AI/ML-powered products, with 3 years of professional UX consultant experience.

- Proven track record of leading complex, enterprise-scale design projects from concept to launch

- Comprehensive portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, design process excellence, and measurable business impact

- Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts, capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations

- Expert proficiency in industry-standard design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, prototyping tools)

- Extensive experience with user research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative

- Strong background in designing for multiple platforms (web, mobile, conversational interfaces, dashboards)

- Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy and drive design-led innovation

- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

- Experience presenting to and influencing senior executives and C-level stakeholders

- Familiarity with Agile and Design Thinking methodologies

- Understanding of business metrics, KPIs, and how design drives business outcomes

- Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., PDPA, GDPR-aligned practices) in AI and analytics contexts

- Hands-on experience defining and tracking data-driven KPIs, success metrics, and experimentation frameworks for AI initiatives.

- Strong understanding of data analytics, statistics, and applied machine learning concepts relevant to AI-powered products and services.

- Experience designing or delivering AI solutions using Google Cloud AI services, such as Vertex AI, AutoML, and managed ML platforms.

- Familiarity with Google's Generative AI capabilities (e.g., foundation models, LLMs, embeddings, conversational AI) and their application in enterprise products and services.

- Hands-on experience integrating AI solutions with Google Cloud data services (e.g., BigQuery, data pipelines, analytics platforms) to support end-to-end AI workflows.

- Strong understanding of MLOps concepts on Google Cloud, including model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

- Strong understanding of Google AI APIs for vision, natural language, speech, recommendation, or search use cases.