Managing Consultant - AI Tokenomics

Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. 

Your Role

As an  AI Tokenomics Managing Consultant, you will be responsible for leading the development, delivery and continual improvement of AI Tokenomics capabilities. They will help organisations understand, govern and optimise token-based AI consumption, connecting AI usage, cost, efficiency and business value across generative and agentic AI workloads.

AI Tokenomics is an emerging extension of FinOps focused on the economics of AI consumption, where tokens are treated as a key unit of AI computation, pricing and value measurement. The discipline supports better visibility, attribution, forecasting, optimisation and value realisation for AI services, working across technology, finance, product and business stakeholders. 

The AI Tokenomics Managing Consultant will be client-facing, responsible for shaping engagements, leading workstreams, developing operating models and supporting senior stakeholders to embed financial accountability into AI adoption

An example of the individual’s day-to-day responsibilities:

• Develop and implement AI Tokenomics and FinOps for AI strategies for internal and external clients.
• Lead AI cost management maturity assessments, discovery workshops and executive stakeholder sessions.
• Define governance models, operating models, roles, processes and reporting cadences for token-based AI consumption.
• Work with technology, finance, product, sourcing and business teams to align AI consumption with budgets, forecasts and value expectations.
• Develop AI spend visibility, allocation, forecasting and showback / chargeback approaches across teams, products, use cases and business outcomes.
• Support clients in identifying AI cost and value optimisation opportunities across model selection, usage patterns, prompt design, context management, caching, routing and agentic workflows.
• Provide guidance on emerging AI pricing models, token-based consumption, commitment models, vendor comparisons and commercial governance.
• Lead the creation of executive reporting on AI usage, token consumption, efficiency, adoption, risk and value realisation.
• Shape and contribute to proposals, statements of work, client presentations and leadership briefings.
• Develop reusable consulting assets, playbooks, maturity models, frameworks and accelerators to grow the AI Tokenomics practice.
• Coach and support AI Tokenomics Analysts and wider FinOps team members.
• Stay informed on emerging standards and guidance from the FinOps Foundation, Tokenomics Foundation, Linux Foundation and FOCUS community.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile

You will have some of the following skils and attributes:

• Previous experience across FinOps, cloud economics, technology cost management, data/financial analysis, AI economics, technology consulting or a related field.
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles, cloud financial management and technology value management.
• Good understanding of generative AI, large language models and token-based AI cost drivers.
• Experience leading client-facing workshops, maturity assessments, operating model design or transformation workstreams.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across technology, finance, sourcing, product and business teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex usage and cost data into clear business insight.
• Excellent presentation-building, documentation, facilitation and communication skills.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner.
• Experience with reporting, dashboarding or analytical tools such as Power BI, Excel, Apptio, Cloudability, Datadog, Looker or equivalent.
• FinOps for AI Certified Practitioner preferred.
• FinOps Certified Professional and Certified FOCUS Analyst preferred.
• Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud desirable.

It would be a bonus if you have:

• Experience developing or scaling a FinOps, AI economics or technology value management capability.
• Exposure to AI platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI API, Anthropic, Databricks or Snowflake.
• Understanding of AI cost drivers including input/output tokens, embeddings, context windows, model routing, retries, caching and agent orchestration.
• Experience supporting AI vendor assessments, pricing analysis, commercial models or sourcing negotiations.
• Experience developing consulting offers, reusable assets, sales materials or thought leadership.
• Familiarity with FOCUS, cloud billing data models, cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly management and optimisation

What You'll Love About Working Here?

• Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them, and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights.
• You’ll learn how we write compelling client propositions, structure, and lead high-profile transformation, and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution.
• Our consultants are formally trained from industry experts on management consulting and client delivery.
• We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner led programmes from AWS, Google and Microsoft.
• Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities which will help us and our clients to succeed.
• We hold monthly showcases of our initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.
• There are many opportunities like monthly team drinks to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. There are regular leadership connect sessions that will give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.  

Need to Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively make it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about.  In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.