Director, AI Solution Owner

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,400+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 10 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. 

Data & Analytics

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

We deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About the Role and You

Own the strategy and execution to embed AI into Accordion solutions. You’ll partner with our Solutions leaders and the Accordion Intelligence Lab to evaluate build vs. buy, design AI capabilities (copilots, automation, predictive insights), and drive them from concept to pilot to scaled product with measurable ROI.

What You'll Do

• Own AI strategy per solution: Define vision, use cases, KPIs, and success criteria; maintain a prioritized AI roadmap across our solution portfolio
• Build vs. buy leadership: Scan the market, run vendor evaluations/POCs, craft make/buy/partner recommendations, and negotiate technical requirements with vendors
• Cross-practice orchestration: Align Solution leads, Consulting delivery, Accordion Intelligence Lab (R&D/engineering) on scope, timelines, and resourcing
• Productization & delivery: Translate business needs into PRDs
• Responsible AI & risk: Work with AI governance lead to establish guardrails for safety, privacy, compliance (PII/PHI), bias testing, human-in-the-loop, and auditability
• Commercial outcomes: Build business cases, pricing/packaging proposals, and adoption plans; support pre-sales and client exec briefings; track ROI post-launch
• Change & enablement: Drive stakeholder alignment, develop playbooks, and enable consultants and client champions on usage and value capture
• Travel to client sites as needed

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years in product/solution ownership or AI-enabled program leadership; 5+ years in data/AI within consulting or SaaS
• Proven track record taking AI features from concept to scaled adoption, including vendor selection (where appropriate) and POCs
• Working knowledge of LLMs and AI stacks: prompt design/evals, retrieval tools/methods, agent orchestration, MLOps, and implementing these tools on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.)
• Strong product skills: customer discovery, PRDs, metrics (activation, retention, quality, latency, cost-to-serve), and agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)
• Executive presence: communicate crisply with C-suite and engineers alike; influence without authority across practices and geographies
• Nice to have: domain depth in Finance/CFO solutions, PE-backed value creation, healthcare, or industrials; experience with guardrails/RAG evaluation, prompt safety, and FinOps for AI

Preferred requirements

• S/MS in CS, Data/AI, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Product/Agile credentials (PSPO/CSPO, PMI-ACP/SAFe)

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $170,000 to $225,000 USD + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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