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Cognizant Consulting Principal - AI Digital Workforce & Consulting in Des Moines, Iowa
About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice - we’re a global community of 6,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About the role
Our AI Digital Workforce and Consulting team is seeking a team member at Consulting Principal level that has a strong background in driving digital transformation and is passionate and informed in how AI and Automation capabilities can help our clients advance their strategies. Our advisors are thought leaders and catalysts, but they are so much more. You will be working alongside our clients to develop their portfolio, build capabilities, risk management and governance to deliver automation, AI and other digital technology solutions. You will advise and drive best practices, opportunity generation and assessment and leverage organizational change approaches to drive adoption and outcome management across business functions.
If you are a leader who is passionate about working across teams to enable the use of technology across an organization, bringing together IT and business teams, this role is for you. As an AI Digital Workforce and Consulting team member, you will have the opportunity to be hands-on with clients while keeping a forward look on the pulse of the industry. You will help shape the working model of the future that leverages technology to solve challenging problems, create efficiency and impact future go to market strategies. If your greatest strengths are building relationships, delivering results, and executing programs at scale to achieve a strategic vision than this role is where you will shine. You will love being a part of this team if you like being a game changer, working shoulder to shoulder with big thinkers and are enthusiastic about achieving results.
In this role, you will:
· Integration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive excellence with their technology programs and integrate AI and automation within their environment. Enhance creativity and innovation by working across teams, facilitating workshops, and bridging technical and business perspectives.
· Scale Programs: Assist clients in scaling initiatives across the enterprise, driving significant operational improvements, scoping, planning, managing, and monitoring projects, with the proper discipline around documentation, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
· Operationalize: Guide clients in operationalizing automation and AI, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. Provide mentorship and ensure successful adoption and implementation.
· Best Practices: Disseminate best practices in a structured, repeatable way. These may include ideation, managing opportunities, delivering solutions, and ensuring practices address responsible AI practices, bias mitigation, and transparency around ethical decision-making.
· Thought Leadership: Support our clients in their journey enabling them to take advantage of the latest thought leadership and contributing as thought leaders.
What you must have to be considered
· AI, Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation Experience: Proven experience with technologies, vendors, tools, and their application in business processes.
· Organizational Change Management: Strong ability to drive change with a focus on technology adoption. Keen eye and creativity on how to engage with people at all levels to enable adoption across an enterprise. Be a catalyst for clients to help them create the future of how they will work tomorrow by working with them through the steps needed to make that future a reality.
· Leadership: Demonstrable leadership capabilities in guiding teams through technological advancements. Strong program & project management skills, ability to manage a program through all stages of scaling. Ability to critically think through challenges to provide creative solutions. Team player who can work across all levels to deliver outcomes.
· Critical Thinking : Strength in breaking down ambiguous, high-level goals into executable steps. Ability to develop collaborative relationships with clients and across teams to ensure alignment of goals, an inclusive working environment, and a solution mindset that helps bring all along the journey to achieve results and desired change.
· Transform Strategy to Action: Results oriented mindset that focuses on creating results. Must have the flexibility to be hands-on and drive results as well as lead teams and influence stakeholders. Ability and willingness to be hands-on with clients to develop, create and implement process, tools, and methodologies.
· Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to flex messaging for stakeholders at all levels. i.e. creating documentation, executive communication, general enterprise messaging through multiple channels and formats, etc.
These will help you succeed
A results‑oriented, hands‑on mindset , with the flexibility to both lead teams and actively engage in client delivery.
Ability to build trusted client relationships and collaborate across business and technology teams to deliver outcomes at scale.
Experience contributing to or leveraging industry thought leadership in AI, automation, and the future of work.
Comfort operating in fast‑changing, complex environments while maintaining a solution‑oriented and inclusive approach.
Working model
Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position with ability to travel to client sites or Cognizant Offices as needed. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
Compensation
This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Salary range and benefits will be provided in accordance with state law and Cognizant policy.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $122,000 - $195,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
· Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
· Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
· 401(k) plan and contributions
· Long-term/Short-term Disability
· Paid Parental Leave
· Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.