Senior Manager - AI Delivery Lead

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.  Strategy & Management Consulting  Sia’s Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.    A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. The Sia Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions.  We’re looking for a Senior Manager, AI Delivery Lead in the Bay Area to help organizations operationalize AI, automation, and agent-based workflows at scale.  In this role, you will lead complex AI-enabled transformation initiatives across business and technology teams, helping clients move from experimentation to measurable business impact. You will operate at the intersection of AI transformation, enterprise operations, program delivery, and business strategy — driving execution across multiple initiatives while helping organizations adopt scalable AI-enabled ways of working.  This role requires someone who combines strong consulting and transformation leadership with hands-on experience identifying, designing, building, and operationalizing AI-enabled solutions within enterprise environments. We are looking for leaders who have personally worked through the realities of AI adoption — partnering directly with business teams to redesign workflows, implement AI-enabled processes, validate outcomes, and drive measurable operational change. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, influencing executive stakeholders, and leading cross-functional teams through large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.  Unlike traditional delivery-focused roles, Senior Managers are also expected to contribute to client growth, executive advisory, practice development, and mentoring consulting teams while helping shape Sia’s growing AI transformation practice.  What You’ll Do  Lead Hands-On AI Transformation & Delivery  Lead large-scale AI transformation initiatives from strategy through execution, adoption, and operational integration.  Drive end-to-end delivery across multiple AI, automation, and technology transformation initiatives, ensuring consistent intake, prioritization, execution, governance, and measurement aligned to organizational goals.  Work directly with business leaders and operational teams to map workflows, identify inefficiencies, and uncover high-impact AI opportunities tied to measurable business outcomes.  Translate ambiguous business challenges into practical AI use cases, operational workflows, prototypes, pilots, and scalable enterprise solutions.  Partner closely with product, engineering, data, operations, legal, and business stakeholders to design, build, test, and operationalize AI-enabled solutions.  Navigate ambiguity and solve complex delivery challenges in fast-paced enterprise and consulting environments.  Lead multiple simultaneous client engagements while balancing speed, quality, stakeholder expectations, operational governance, and business priorities.  Build & Operationalize AI-Enabled Solutions  Lead implementation of AI-powered workflows, copilots, automation initiatives, and agentic systems across enterprise functions.  Help organizations move AI initiatives from experimentation and isolated pilots into scalable day-to-day operational adoption.  Help structure governance models, delivery frameworks, operational processes, and adoption approaches that enable sustainable enterprise AI transformation.  Work alongside technical and business teams to iterate on AI solutions, refine workflows, validate business value, and scale successful implementations into production environments.  Experiment with emerging AI tools, platforms, orchestration frameworks, and agentic systems to identify practical enterprise applications and scalable operational improvements.  Seek opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through automation, AI-enabled workflows, streamlined operations, and scalable delivery practices.  Drive Program Governance & Executive Alignment  Define program goals, success metrics, reporting structures, and KPI frameworks tied to adoption, operational efficiency, quality, ROI, and business impact.  Partner with stakeholders to align intake processes, prioritization frameworks, governance models, SLA tracking, risk management, and post-launch measurement.  Identify and proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, organizational blockers, and escalation paths.  Provide ongoing executive communication, program visibility, and strategic recommendations to leadership teams.  Operate effectively across highly matrixed organizations and engage stakeholders ranging from front-line operators to executive leadership.  Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders across technology, operations, product, and business organizations.  Drive Adoption & Operational Change  Help