
Edge Strategist Senior Consultant
Chicago, IL · HybridFull-time$128–253K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Deloitte’s AI Strategy practice helps clients identify and validate AI opportunities before investing at scale. The Edge Strategist combines business strategy, AI fluency, and rapid experimentation to demonstrate value, develop evidence-based business cases, and build sequenced roadmaps. The role works with client leaders and technical specialists to validate AI-enabled solutions and plan for adoption, supporting measurable business outcomes.
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Full job description
Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. Work alongside clients every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and provide practical solutions at every stage of their journey-before, during, and after any major transformation project or transaction.
Our AI Strategy practice helps clients identify and validate AI opportunities before investing at scale. As an Edge Strategist, you'll combine business strategy, AI fluency, and rapid experimentation to demonstrate value, develop evidence-based business cases, and build sequenced roadmaps. Apply today!
Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.
Work You'll Do
As an Edge Strategist on the AI Strategy team, you will be responsible for:
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Conduct stakeholder and end-user interviews and lead working sessions to identify business needs, process gaps, and readiness for adoption.
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Identify, assess, and prioritize AI use cases based on business value, feasibility, and risk.
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Partner with client leaders, product owners, architects, engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to validate and prototype AI-enabled solutions using client data, tools, and accelerators.
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Define business requirements, success measures, user experience, and future-state operating-model requirements for AI-enabled solutions.
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Develop evidence-based business cases, value-tracking frameworks, reusable assets, sequenced roadmaps, and change plans that support adoption and inform decisions on quality, cost, latency, and risk.
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
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Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
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Effective written and verbal communication skills
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Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
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Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
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Ability to lead projects or workstreams
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Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
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Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
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Ability to meet deadlines
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Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The Team
Strategy architects bold strategies across the enterprise, enabling growth, competitive advantage, and continuous digital and AI transformation.
AI Strategy is part of Deloitte's Strategy & Transactions practice. The team works with clients and technical specialists to identify, validate, and advance AI opportunities that support measurable business outcomes. Practitioners combine strategy, rapid experimentation, and implementation planning to help clients move from idea to execution.
Qualifications
Required:
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Bachelor's degree in one of the following: business, economics, engineering, computer science.
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4+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business transformation, or technology strategy.
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1+ years of experience applying enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) platforms or tools to business use cases and shaping, scoping, or contributing to AI initiatives from business case development through adoption.
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Experience developing AI opportunity assessments, business cases, or roadmaps based on business problems.
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Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
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You must reside within a commutable distance of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required, without the need for overnight accommodations.
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You can expect to co-locate on average 1-2 times a week with variations based on types of work/projects and client locations.
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Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
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Experience developing AI value frameworks, including return on investment (ROI) modeling, value tracking, and key performance indicator (KPI) frameworks.
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Experience collaborating with client technical teams, program stakeholders, and onshore/offshore delivery teams to deliver AI-enabled solutions.
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Experience with process redesign, change management, and user adoption.
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Experience applying responsible AI practices and governance, security, privacy, and compliance requirements to AI initiatives.
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Experience developing executive presentations and delivering product demonstrations.
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Experience with enterprise AI platforms and tools, including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Palantir.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, 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 facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $128,000 to $252,500.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,498 open Management Consultant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$128–253K/yr
- Illinois median$100–205K/yr81 salary ranges
- US median$99–232K/yr2,315 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $190K, is 15% above the Illinois median midpoint ($166K) — in the top quarter of Management Consultant salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 86 open Management Consultant jobs in Illinois and 2,498 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Management Consultant postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,434 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,555 of the 2,498 open Management Consultant jobs (62%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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