AI & Technology Strategist - Senior Manager

About the role

The AI & Technology Strategist is a hands-on, client-facing senior advisory role positioned at the heart of Strategy&, PwC's global strategy practice, within our market-leading Deals business. This is a team that is fundamentally shaping how private equity sponsors and corporates harness technology and AI to create, protect, and realise value through transactions and transformations.

Combining deep industry expertise in one of the following: financial services, insurance, professional services, retail, and technology sectors with a commercial value mindset and technical fluency, you will work directly with corporate leadership teams, PE-backed management teams, and mid-market portfolio companies to reimagine their businesses through AI-driven solutions. You will work with our strategy and operations teams to take AI strategy through to execution; from identifying high-impact opportunities and building compelling investment cases, to prototyping AI solutions that deliver rapid value and designing end-to-end transformation programmes that embed technology at the heart of client operations. This role is instrumental in translating those opportunities into measurable outcomes and driving technology-enabled transformation across mid-market and large-cap environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Developing and executing enterprise technology and AI strategies aligned to value creation plans for corporates and mid-market portfolio companies, working closely with deal teams, PE sponsors, and corporate leadership to turn technology insight into commercial advantage.

- Leading executive-level workshops to identify business challenges, articulating the "art of the possible" with AI and technology and defining a clear path to value for senior leadership teams.
- Building robust investment theses and business cases that clearly articulate the commercial return on technology and AI initiatives, identifying, prioritising, and road mapping high-impact technology opportunities.
- Working alongside Strategy& operations teams to advise clients on how AI, including agentic AI, is reshaping operating models and business processes, providing technical inputs that inform the redesign of workflows, organisational structures, and end-to-end process architecture to unlock efficiency, scalability, and competitive advantage.
- Collaborating with our AI forward deployed engineers to shape the design and deployment of AI solutions, contributing strategic direction to pilot projects and proofs-of-value that demonstrate tangible impact and inform the case for full-scale adoption.
- Providing strategic oversight across multiple engagements, ensuring alignment between technology investment and measurable business outcomes, and maintaining quality and rigour across concurrent workstreams.
- Playing a critical role in growing our AI and technology strategy proposition within Strategy& Deals, contributing to thought leadership, go-to-market activity, and the development of new client propositions that reflect the central role technology now plays in deal value creation.

The Role Is for You If

- You bring broad experience across enterprise technology strategy and AI, including the following: digital transformation, enterprise architecture, AI strategy, data architecture, AI-enabled operating models.
- You have experience working across one or more of our priority sectors, including professional services, insurance, banking, retail, and technology, or you bring deep domain expertise in another sector that is readily transferable to these industries.
- You have a proven track record of influencing investment decisions at C-suite and board level, with strong commercial acumen, enabling you to develop strategies that translate directly into measurable value creation.
- You build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, from C-suite executives and board members to engineering and IT teams, translating requirements fluently between technical and business audiences, and conveying complicated topics in easily understandable terms.
- You have experience leading x-functional teams with clients including technical engineers to design, build, and deploy technology strategy, architecture or solutions that underpin strategic recommendations.
- You bring familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, and you have a passion for thinking creatively about how to apply technology in a way that is safe, beneficial, and ultimately advances responsible AI adoption within client organisations.
- You enjoy engaging in cross-organisational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities, and you actively develop and coach team members, building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity, quality, and continuous learning within the practice.
- You identify and pursue new business opportunities by translating emerging AI and technology capabilities into compelling client propositions, contributing to practice growth while maintaining a results-driven, client-focused approach that prioritises solving meaningful, real-world problems.

What you’ll receive from us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.