AI Strategist - Senior Director
Tech Stack
Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
AI Strategist - Senior Director
The AI Strategist plays a pivotal role in shaping Cognizant’s AI portfolio by designing high impact AI use cases, building compelling value propositions, and enabling early-stage client engagement. Sitting at the intersection of business design, AI capability, and industry needs, this role transforms opportunity spaces into structured, scalable, commercially strong AI offerings that drive growth for the AI Market Unit.
This role is ideal for a product-minded consultant or solution designer who can blend conceptual thinking, business acumen, and AI literacy to build differentiated offerings that win in the market.
Responsibilities
AI Offering & Use Case Design
- Own conceptual and architectural design for prioritized AI use cases and offerings.
- Translate business problems, industry signals, and AI capabilities into structured solution blueprints.
- Develop narratives, workflows, and design artifacts that illustrate the “art of the possible” and competitive differentiation.
Value Proposition Development & Collateral Creation
- Build business value frameworks, impact models, and client-ready point of view documents.
- Create reusable offering assets including pitch decks, one-pagers, POVs, demo scripts, and solution differentiators.
- Align offerings with market demand, competitive insights, and Cognizant’s internal capability landscape.
Client & Internal Engagement
- Partner with clients, sales teams, ISLs, consulting, and pre-sales in early discovery phases.
- Lead ideation sessions and offer walkthroughs to surface use cases and refine solution approaches.
- Support pursuit teams with value narratives, offering insights, and strategic justification for AI-led transformation programs.
Requirements
Experience Required
- Min 15 years of consulting, solution design, digital/AI strategy, or product/experience design.
- Proven experience framing business problems and structuring AI or digital solutions.
- Exposure to AI platforms, GenAI toolchains, and industry specific AI use cases.
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to tie technology to business value.
- Demonstrated stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Competencies
- Strong conceptual and structured problem-solving skills.
- Ability to blueprint solutions and articulate complex ideas simply.
- Business storytelling and narrative building for executive audiences.
- Ability to work seamlessly with sales, engineering, consulting, and product teams.
- Understanding of AI/ML concepts at a business technical level (not necessarily hands on technical).
We Offer
- Salary: Annual base salary between $200,000 - $275,000 depending on experience and qualifications.
- Incentives: Discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards based on performance.
- Benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About the Company
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process, and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes, and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Application Process
- Apply to the right opportunity: Find an open role that matches your skills and career goals.
- Connect with your recruiter: If a fit is identified, a short intro call will be scheduled.
- Show off your skills: Interview with our hiring team; some roles may require technical assessments and/or client interviews.
- Decision time: Our team will review each candidate’s potential to succeed in the role.
Applications will be accepted until Aug 30, 2026.
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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