Strategy& Fit For Growth AI Strategy Senior Associate

Specialty/Competency: Corporate and Business Strategy
Industry/Sector: TMT X-Sector
Time Type: Full time
Travel Requirements: Up to 60%

At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance. As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC, you will analyse client needs, provide consulting services across different strategic areas, and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity

As part of the Strategy Consulting team, the Fit for Growth AI Strategy Senior Associate will analyze complex problems and develop strategic solutions to drive agentic AI transformation for our clients. You will be at the forefront of designing, prototyping, and deploying AI agents that streamline enterprise processes, reduce cycle times, and deliver measurable business value. This is a hands-on role for Strategy Consulting professionals who are creative problem solvers, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to shape the future of AI-led business solutions.

Responsibilities

- Utilize critical thinking to interpret complex data and provide insights

- Anticipate client needs and proactively address them

- Identify requirements for AI agents to optimize enterprise processes and deliver tangible value

- Build and test agent prototypes, including tool-use logic, planning loops, and multi-agent configurations

- Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance, grounding accuracy, and reliability using synthetic and real data

- Oversee data integration, pipeline design, and synthetic data generation for training and testing

- Work with data engineering teams to source and prepare datasets

- Translate business use cases into functional prototypes and value hypotheses

- Support demos, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and stakeholder working sessions

What You Must Have

- Bachelor’s Degree

- At least 3 years of experience

What Sets You Apart

- Master's Degree or Masters of Business Administration in Accounting & Finance, Business Administration/Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Economics and Finance & Technology, Economics and Finance, Finance & Technology, Finance, Financial Mathematics preferred

- Knowledge of corporate strategy

- Demonstrating strategic and creative thinking abilities

- Building productive and collaborative team relationships

- Managing global enterprise-wide strategy issues

- Demonstrating experience in agent training, prompt engineering, and creative deployment of bespoke agents

- Proven ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate in dynamic environments

- Demonstrating experience in product ownership and agentic deployment, with hands-on work building custom GPTs, Langflow, or similar tools

- Possessing proven collaboration skills and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions

- Demonstrating the ability to define agent requirements, develop prototypes, and run experimentation cycles

- Proven experience driving agent training with client-specific data for optimal outcomes

- Showing creative problem-solving skills and agility in developing innovative AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact

The salary range for this position is: $77,000 - $202,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link:

As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law. 

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy:

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