Scale AI

AI Advisory Consultant

Scale AI$141K — $177K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in a consulting role at a Tier 1 firm (e.g., McKinsey, Bain, BCG), with AI strategy/project experience preferred.
  • Proven ability to perform structured, analytics-driven problem solving in ambiguous situations.
  • Strong communication skills with a talent for producing polished executive-ready materials.
  • Exceptional organization skills with a track record of managing multiple projects and timelines effectively.
  • Technical acumen to challenge engineering perspectives without needing an engineering degree.
  • Experience using AI tools like GenAI to enhance productivity in daily tasks.
  • Ability to identify business opportunities and articulate ROI effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver core advisory work, including market research, impact sizing, and workshop materials.
  • Manage day-to-day engagement activities, ensuring timelines and tasks are tracked accurately.
  • Prepare and develop research materials for client pre-sales discussions.
  • Convert engagement insights into reusable knowledge through debrief notes and findings write-ups.
  • Identify and build AI-driven workflows to streamline processes and improve team efficiency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits with contributions.
  • Learning and development stipend to foster professional growth.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) for work-life balance.
  • Potential eligibility for additional commuter stipends.
Full Job Description
As an AI Advisory Consultant, you sit at the center of every engagement - paired with a Principal, producing the research, synthesis, impact sizing, and workshop materials that shape the work, and pressure-testing the team's assumptions. You also run the engagement day-to-day - owning the timelines, trackers, and coordination across Solutions Engineering and Design, and acting as the single source of truth that keeps everything on track from kickoff to final readout. This is a delivery role; you own real parts of the advisory work and partner closely with the Principal to deliver the engagement. It's a direct path into the AI Advisory Principal track.
What You'll Own

You're at the center of every engagement - doing the work and keeping it on track.
  • Deliver the core advisory work. You produce the output the engagement runs on - market research, impact sizing, synthesis, and workshop materials - working alongside the Principal.
  • Run the engagement day-to-day. You own the timelines, trackers, and single source of truth - monitoring open items and follow-ups across Solutions Engineering and Design, and keeping the engagement on track from kickoff to final readout. Working closely with the Solutions Engineering workstream, you weave their technical and feasibility findings into the readouts so the engagement tells one coherent story.
  • Build the case ahead of client conversations. You develop the research and supporting materials that set up pre-sales conversations to land, and support the Principal in building out vertical thought leadership.
  • Turn each engagement into reusable knowledge. You own the debrief notes, findings write-ups, and structured hand-offs after each engagement, and you contribute the patterns and materials that improve the motion and playbook.
  • Build the AI workflows that make us faster. You spot where the team's work can be automated or templatized - recaps, status tracking, synthesized readouts, reusable materials - and you build those AI-powered solutions, not just flag them. You also set up baseline measurement and tracking.
Qualifications

Ideally, you'd have
  • Consultant equivalent experience at a Tier 1 firm (McKinsey, Bain, BCG ideally); 3+ years of work experience. Experience on AI strategy or transformation projects strongly preferred.
  • A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem solving - turning messy, ambiguous inputs into a clear, defensible point of view.
  • Excellent communication - produces clean, exec-ready first drafts of findings and materials that need little editing.
  • A history of diligence and organization across multiple workstreams - owns the trackers and details so nothing slips, even under time pressure.
  • Technical credibility. No engineering degree required. You are curious enough to push back on engineering leads when the architecture or the accuracy story doesn't hold up.
  • Hands-on with GenAI in daily work - can point to concrete examples of using AI tools to work faster.
  • Commercial instinct. You think in business levers. You articulate ROI without prompting and spot upsell logic the Account Executives missed.
  • Willingness to travel 30-60 percent, which can include international trips depending on the account.

Nice to Have
  • 0-to1 experience developing or deploying GenAI applications in an enterprise setting.
  • Exposure to enterprise AI or one of Scale's target verticals (Consumer, Financial & Professional Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences).
  • Experience designing and synthesizing design-thinking workshops.


Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$141,600-$177,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Scale AI

Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides data annotation services to improve machine learning algorithms. The company's platform offers a range of services including image annotation, text annotation, and 3D annotation. Scale AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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