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Artefact

Data and AI-driven business transformation consulting

AI Strategist Manager

Strategy & Management ConsultingUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeParis, FranceIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in a strategy, management, or data/AI transformation consulting firm.
  • A higher-education degree at licence or master’s level from a high-quality academic program.
  • Experience leading complex engagements from vision through to results, including business cases capable of withstanding executive scrutiny.
  • Strong understanding of operational AI topics, including generative and agentic AI, governance, and business use cases, with the ability to explain them simply to executives.
  • Experience leading business-process redesign projects and demonstrated mastery of some business processes.
  • Experience in business development, including proposals, account growth, and relationships with senior decision-makers.
  • Experience managing a team of consultants, with ability and interest in developing and delegating to team members.
  • Comfort with current technology tools and ability to rapidly prototype functional demonstrations using low-code, no-code, and agentic tools.
  • Excellent spoken and written French and English.

Responsibilities

  • Define clients’ AI vision, prioritize use-case roadmaps, challenge whether AI is appropriate, and make trade-offs.
  • Lead end-to-end business-process redesign when appropriate, applying lean principles before AI deployment and coordinating Engineering and AI Adoption teams to deliver changes.
  • Design the target operating model and establish the conditions for its success.
  • Design and lead engagement analysis, including business cases, to support evidence-based decisions, and review the team’s work.
  • Rapidly prototype use cases and demonstrate their value to help clients envision final solutions.
  • Lead day-to-day engagement delivery, provide visibility to client sponsors, divide engagements into workstreams, anticipate risks, and challenge clients when appropriate.
  • Independently produce executive-level deliverables and summaries, structure the storyline, and ensure Artefact quality standards are met.
  • Coordinate with Engineering teams on technical feasibility and AI Adoption teams to embed adoption in day-to-day work.
  • Build trusted relationships with business directors and senior project sponsors, map stakeholder dynamics, facilitate presentations, and manage tensions and escalations while maintaining trust.
  • Identify new client needs, develop account plans with Directors or Partners, proactively initiate proposals to grow existing accounts, and contribute to commercial proposals and presentations.
  • Supervise and develop junior and senior consultants, act as counsellor to colleagues, and participate in recruiting future employees.
  • Contribute articles and lessons learned to the internal knowledge base and lead internal training.

About the Company

Artefact

Data and AI-driven business transformation consulting

Artefact helps organizations use data and AI to transform their operations and decision-making. It provides end-to-end services across the data value chain, from strategy and data platform implementation to governance, advanced analytics, and sector-specific AI tools, delivered through consulting and project execution. The company works with industries like FMCG, retail, and luxury goods to optimize marketing performance, customer engagement, and ROI. Artefact differentiates itself by combining consulting expertise with data science and AI capabilities across multiple regions, offering integrated, sector-focused solutions rather than just advisory services. The main goal is to help clients adopt data-driven approaches to improve efficiency, decision quality, and marketing results at scale.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1998

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