The Work:As an Associate Director in this family you are the technical owner of the industry digital-brain discipline in your vertical. Concretely, that means three things at once:
You own the methodology.- Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift - yours to defend and evolve.
You own the asset portfolio.- The industry ontology itself, the vertical agent patterns, the regulatory hooks - assets that compound engagement over engagement.
You own the technical point of view.- You are the named industry voice - analyst conversations, industry councils, the public argument for encoded industry knowledge as competitive moat.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here's what you need- Minimum of 12 years in your industry, with at least 3 years translating domain knowledge into data products, ontologies, or AI use cases.
- Minimum of 5 years working alongside industry clients at the executive level (CTO / CDO / chief underwriting / chief merchandising, per vertical).
- Working fluency with knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and retrieval-augmented generation
- Minimum of 2 years of publishing or speaking publicly on AI in your industry.
- Minimum of 3 years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology - not just consulting within one.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).
Professional Skills Required:
- Demonstrated ability to walk into a client executive's office and earn the room on technical depth alone.
- A clear, defensible point of view on the current AI frontier - what's real, what's hype, what matters in 18 months - that you can articulate publicly.
Bonus Points if You Have:- A regulatory-change war story you can tell with dates.
- Experience shipping an industry data or knowledge product that outlived its first engagement.
- Ecosystem-partnership experience (platforms, data providers, industry bodies).
- Comfort being outranked on pipeline conversations and outvoting on technical ones.
- A track record of editing methodology the way engineers edit code.
- Frontier-partner relationships (Anthropic, OpenAI, hyperscaler AI orgs, or equivalent).
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/04/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $163,000 to $434,000
Colorado $163,000 to $375,000
Connecticut $163,000 to $375,000
District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300
Illinois $150,900 to $375,000
Maine $138,800 to $319,400
Maryland $163,000 to $375,000
Massachusetts $163,000 to $399,300
Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000
New York $150,900 to $434,000
New Jersey $173,500 to $434,000
Ohio $150,900 to $347,200
Virginia $150,900 to $399,300
Washington $173,500 to $399,300
