We are targeting for this role to be located in Northern California where there is a Slalom office and are looking for candidates who are interested in working in a hybrid environment.

Who You’ll Work With

As a Principal at Slalom, you will play a critical role in shaping client outcomes while also contributing to the growth and maturity of our Transformation Design & Leadership (TDL) practice. You will bring thought leadership, mentor teams, and help strengthen Slalom’s reputation as a trusted partner in enterprise and AI-enabled transformation.

This role sits within TDL’s Transformation Architecture sub-capability and operates at the intersection of strategy, operating model design, technology, data, and AI. You will partner closely with Slalom’s Data & Analytics, Technology, and Industry teams to ensure transformations are well-designed, adopted, governed, and sustained.

This role has a strong focus on AI-enabled transformation and AI Office enablement, helping organizations move from experimentation to scaled, responsible, and value-driven adoption of AI.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a Transformation Architect and trusted advisor, guiding clients through large-scale business, technology, and AI-enabled transformations with accountability for outcomes, adoption, and value realization.
• Lead AI-enabled transformation and AI Office initiatives, helping clients:
• Define AI operating models, governance structures, decision rights, and funding approaches
• Establish responsible and ethical AI adoption practices aligned to risk, compliance, and enterprise priorities
• Enable workforce readiness, change, and adoption at scale
• Transition from pilots and proofs of concept to enterprise AI-enabled capabilities
• Architect end-to-end transformation approaches that integrate people, process, data, technology, and ways of working, partnering with Data & Analytics and Technology teams for detailed solution design and delivery.
• Shape and prioritize data- and AI-enabled business use cases, ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy, organizational readiness, and measurable outcomes.
• Create strategic transformation roadmaps based on insights into how enterprise architecture, business processes, data, and new technologies interconnect at scale.
• Drive business process optimization and organizational change by embedding data-informed and AI-augmented decision-making into operating models and day-to-day execution.
• Advise executive leaders on transformation strategy, sequencing, and trade-offs, helping them navigate ambiguity, align stakeholders, and sustain momentum across multi-year initiatives.
• Contribute to the evolution of Slalom’s AI-enabled transformation and AI Office offerings, including points of view, methodologies, and accelerators.
• Guide and support consultants at all levels, fostering expertise in transformation, data, and AI both within TDL and among partner teams.
• Lead and contribute to proposal development, shaping transformation approaches from ambiguous problem statements through clear, compelling client value propositions.
  

What You’ll Bring

To be successful as a Transformation Principal within TDL’s Transformation Architecture capability, you will bring:

• 7+ years of experience in consulting or advisory roles, leading or advising enterprise-scale business and technology transformations.
• Demonstrated experience shaping AI-enabled transformation or AI Office efforts, including operating model design, governance, adoption strategies, and executive alignment.
• Strong fluency in data, analytics, cloud, and AI concepts, with the ability to architect transformation approaches, evaluate trade-offs, and guide strategic decisions, while partnering with Data & Analytics teams for detailed engineering and implementation.
• Proven experience leading multi-capability, cross-functional programs, aligning business leaders, technologists, and analytics practitioners around a shared transformation vision.
• Experience framing, sequencing, and governing data- and AI-enabled use cases in support of strategic priorities and measurable business value.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of contemporary enterprise and cloud architectures, providing informed guidance on strategic decisions such as build versus buy, platform strategy, and capability evolution as part of broader transformation efforts.
• Strong storytelling and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex transformation concepts into clear, compelling narratives for senior leaders and diverse audiences.
• Experience advising executive teams on operating model design, organizational alignment, and governance, particularly in environments undergoing significant change.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment, influence without authority, and operate effectively with senior leaders in complex, evolving environments.
  
  

Additional Information

This role demands strong technical and data skills for strategic decision-making; engineering or analytics development experience is a plus. Success is defined by the ability to architect transformation, align stakeholders, and drive sustained impact.

Exposure to modern data and cloud ecosystems (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure) is beneficial to support effective collaboration and informed decision-making.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Compensation And Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for this Principal role is $165,000 to $195,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.