Wayfinders Senior Managing Consultant – Data & AI

Job Type: Location Type: Remote: open to all US residents

 

Job Description

Fujitsu at a Glance

Fujitsu is a leading information and communication technology company, headquartered in Japan, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of technology to shape the future of society with our customers.

Our corporate culture places great value on bringing new, unimagined possibilities to fruition. This mission has been the foundation of Fujitsu’s success since its inception 90 years ago. In an increasingly competitive world with an accelerating pace of change, Fujitsu must strive for continuous innovation. Each and every employee will rise to the challenge of creating new value amid changes in management, technology, society, and the marketplace. With a spirit of challenge, we are committed to the continuous creation of new value. Fujitsu wants innovators like you.

Wayfinders is Fujitsu’s new business and technology management consulting firm built for the AI era. Our mission is to help clients define how they should harness the power of technology to outperform their peers and drive new frontiers of growth and profitability. We help clients from opportunity to outcome, by developing strategy, implementing it at scale, and capturing ROI. Our approach weaves AI into the consulting process and focuses on building client capabilities to leverage AI at scale across the enterprise.

Position Overview: Wayfinders Senior Managing Consultant – Data & AI

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Managing Consultant to join our Data & AI practice. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with expertise in enterprise-wide AI and data transformation programs. Experience aligning AI strategy initiatives with business goals and driving measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to translate complex data and AI challenges into business value, crafting compelling strategies and presenting C-suite-ready roadmaps, and driving adoption of data-driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Proven mentor, with demonstrated track record growing junior colleagues into successful consultants
• Drive client satisfaction and long-term relationship development.
• Clear experience with a project-dedicated model, leading day-to-day project management and integrating workstreams for complex projects with teams of 3+ junior personnel

Practice Development

• Experience supporting the proposal process & building relationships with mid-senior clients
• Contributes to project-level strategy, ensuring alignment with client objectives and firm methodologies
• Supports practice strategy and development of consulting offers to address market trends

Required Skills & Experience

Consulting & Industry Experience and Education

• 5+ years, typically in consulting or equivalent industry leadership (e.g. Head of Data for a midsized company)
• Excels in storytelling and stakeholder facilitation, bridging technical (e.g., data engineers) and business audiences with persuasive narratives, building trust, and navigating client dynamics with finesse.
• Experience with US subsidiaries of Japanese multi-national firms is a plus.
• Advanced degree (PhD, MBA, MS in Data Science, or equivalent) from a top-tier institution preferred, though relevant experience can substitute

Leadership & Influence

• Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
• Strong people leadership skills, including team building, coaching, and performance management.
• Proven track record leading interdisciplinary projects spanning clients & colleagues with diverse technical backgrounds (e.g. data engineering, data science, MLE, software engineering) and traditional business backgrounds (e.g. project managers, integrative management

Technical & Industry Knowledge

• Skilled in designing scalable, cloud-native data architectures, integrating data lakes (e.g., Databricks Delta Lake), data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery), data meshes for decentralized ownership, and real-time streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis) to support dynamic use cases, e.g. logistics optimization, retail store transformation, & production optimization in manufacturing.
• Masterful in crafting data governance frameworks that ensure data quality, security, and compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, CA AI Bill of Rights, CO Consumer Protections for AI). Ensures AI-ready data quality with lineage tracking and bias mitigation, to maintain compliance and fairness in large-scale AI deployments.
• Proficient in AI/ML concepts (e.g., supervised learning machine learning, deep learning, LLMs), with experience in frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face, especially as it pertains to data integration for model development and deployment.
• Designs robust data pipelines to support both traditional enterprise ETL use cases, as well as AI at scale, with knowledge of feature stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton) and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) to manage high-dimensional data for real-time inference.
• Optimizes data infrastructure for AI workloads, leveraging contemporary orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow) and cloud cost tools to balance performance and expense for enterprise AI.

Core Competencies

• Strategic Thinking & Vision
• Client Relationship Management
• Innovation & Thought Leadership
• Communication & Storytelling
• Results Orientation

Fujitsu salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each situation. The pay range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: specific skills, qualifications, experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. Salary is commensurate with education and experience; this role may also be eligible for a general incentive based on company results and individual performance.

As a technology company, Fujitsu recognizes that human resources are its most important capital. To create an environment where all employees can work positively and healthily, both in mind and body, we offer a full range of health, 401K, and other benefits.

At Fujitsu, one of our corporate principles is “We respect human rights.” This principle underpins our corporate and individual activities and guides the actions of every Fujitsu Group member. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. By empowering people, we can unleash our collective strengths to create a better experience for our employees, our customers, and our partners.

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About Us

Fujitsu at a Glance

Fujitsu is a leading information and communication technology (ICT) company, headquartered in Japan, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers.

We are a corporate culture that places great value on the pursuit of new possibilities previously unimagined and brings them to fruition. This has been the foundation of Fujitsu’s success since its inception. In an increasingly competitive world, in which the pace of change continues to accelerate, Fujitsu must strive for continuous innovation. Each and every employee will rise to the challenge of creating new value amid changes in the management environment, technology, society and the marketplace. With a spirit of challenge, we are committed to the continuous creation of new value. Fujitsu wants innovators like you!

At Fujitsu, one of our corporate principles is “We respect human rights”. This principle underpins all our corporate and individual activities and guides the actions of every Fujitsu Group member. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. By empowering people, we can unleash our collective strengths to create a better experience for our employees, our customers, and our partners.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CPPA), read here