Consulting AI Director

About this role

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.  

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Job Description:

  Role overview

Baker Tilly is seeking a senior consulting leader with deep applied AI expertise to define and lead the next phase of AI activation across our national consulting business. The firm has already established enterprise AI infrastructure and completed significant use-case identification. The opportunity now is to translate that foundation into a clear vision, an actionable portfolio of priorities, and measurable changes in how consulting services are delivered. This is a business leadership role—not ownership of the underlying AI technology platform or technical delivery organization. The Director must bring enough technical depth to engage credibly with architects, engineers, data professionals, security teams, and platform owners; critically evaluate proposed approaches; challenge assumptions, estimates, constraints, and tradeoffs; and direct technical requests toward the business outcomes Consulting requires. The role will partner closely with the team responsible for OpenAI Enterprise (Anthropic and other tools in consideration), ensuring that technical decisions reflect real consulting workflows, economics, priorities, and adoption needs. The successful candidate will combine consulting-business fluency, deep applied understanding of modern AI, strategic vision, commercial acumen, rigorous critical thinking, and strong executive influence. They will help practice leaders distinguish meaningful advances from market noise, envision new delivery models, understand revenue and margin implications, and prepare the consulting workforce for sustained change. They must also be comfortable constructively challenging technical teams when recommendations are insufficiently grounded in business value, user needs, practicality, or scale.

Key responsibilities

Set the vision and activation strategy • Define and communicate a compelling vision for how AI should reshape Baker Tilly Consulting over the near, medium, and longer term.

• Translate firm strategy, market developments, and identified use cases into a prioritized Consulting AI roadmap with clear sequencing, dependencies, investment needs, and success measures.

• Advise consulting executives and practice leaders on where to experiment, scale, pause, or redirect effort based on business value, feasibility, risk, and organizational readiness.

• Maintain a strong external perspective on advances in generative AI, agentic systems, knowledge technologies, and emerging delivery models, separating durable signals from short-lived hype.

Reimagine consulting services and economics • Partner with practice leaders and subject-matter experts to redesign service delivery, workflows, team structures, and client-value propositions around AI-enabled ways of working.

• Identify opportunities beyond labor efficiency, including improved quality and consistency, just-in-time staff training, stronger knowledge retention and dissemination, accelerated onboarding, enhanced judgment, and scalable access to expertise.

• Evaluate the implications of AI-enabled delivery for pricing, revenue growth, capacity, utilization, leverage models, profitability, intellectual property, and competitive differentiation.

• Develop business cases and decision frameworks that connect AI investments to measurable service-line and firm outcomes.

• Help convert high-value concepts into repeatable methods, accelerators, playbooks, and operating capabilities that can be adopted across practices.

Direct business-to-technology translation and challenge • Serve as the primary Consulting business counterpart to the teams that manage enterprise AI platforms, data, integrations, security, architecture,

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