Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance
Alteryx · United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $177,000 / year
- United States
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Job highlights
- Lead analytics and AI governance initiatives.
- Design enterprise governance frameworks.
- Advise on Responsible AI practices.
- Drive customer consulting and delivery.
- Develop Alteryx's Governance Practice.
About the role
Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance at Alteryx
Alteryx is leading the transformation in how businesses operate through data, automation, and AI. We are seeking a Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance to join our team. This is a remote-friendly, senior individual contributor role focused on establishing governance frameworks for trusted, scalable adoption of analytics, automation, and AI.
Position Overview
As a Principal Consultant, you will partner with business leaders, analytics teams, data stakeholders, and IT organizations to design governance operating models. Your goal will be to balance innovation with risk management and accelerate value realization. You will also lead the evolution of Alteryx’s Governance Practice, developing methodologies, frameworks, and best practices. Collaboration across Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Professional Services is key to enhancing our governance consulting capabilities and customer impact.
Primary Responsibilities
Enterprise Governance Strategy
- Design governance frameworks that enable organizations to scale analytics, automation, and AI while maintaining trust, accountability, compliance, and business agility.
- Define governance operating models, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability structures.
- Establish governance processes that balance centralized oversight with business-user self-service and innovation.
- Advise customers on governance strategies that accelerate adoption, increase asset reuse, improve trust, and reduce operational risk.
- Help customers establish and evolve Centers of Excellence (CoEs), governance councils, stewardship models, and champion networks.
AI Governance & Enablement
- Advise customers on Responsible AI practices, including transparency, explainability, model oversight, risk management, and AI policy development.
- Develop governance approaches for generative AI, machine learning, AI-powered applications, and agentic workflows.
- Facilitate discussions around AI readiness, AI operating models, AI risk management, and organizational capabilities.
- Design frameworks for AI inventory management, usage monitoring, performance measurement, and business impact tracking.
- Guide customers in establishing governance controls that enable innovation while ensuring appropriate oversight and accountability.
Business User Governance & Adoption
- Enable business teams to safely leverage analytics, automation, and AI through scalable guardrails, standards, policies, and best practices.
- Design content lifecycle, certification, stewardship, ownership, and asset management models.
- Partner with business leaders to define adoption strategies, governance KPIs, success metrics, and value realization frameworks.
- Lead governance transformation initiatives that improve user empowerment and organizational control.
- Develop change management and stakeholder engagement approaches that drive governance adoption and organizational alignment.
Customer Consulting & Delivery
- Lead governance, operating model, and AI strategy workshops with various stakeholders.
- Facilitate alignment across business, data, analytics, compliance, and IT stakeholders.
- Assess organizational maturity and develop practical roadmaps for governance evolution, AI enablement, and self-service adoption.
- Guide customers in defining governance structures, roles, responsibilities, and operating models.
- Provide strategic recommendations that help customers accelerate adoption while managing risks.
- Present governance findings, maturity assessments, and recommendations to customer leadership teams.
- Author governance frameworks, maturity assessments, implementation playbooks, and reusable delivery assets.
Practice Leadership & Thought Leadership
- Define and evolve Alteryx’s Governance Practice methodologies, delivery approaches, maturity models, and service offerings.
- Create reusable governance accelerators, assessments, implementation playbooks, workshop materials, and delivery assets.
- Establish best practices for analytics governance, automation governance, AI governance, and self-service enablement.
- Mentor consultants, solution architects, and customer-facing teams on governance frameworks and engagement approaches.
- Partner with Sales and Customer Success teams to support strategic opportunities.
- Contribute to thought leadership through presentations, webinars, conferences, and best-practice development.
- Collaborate with Product and Strategy teams to provide customer feedback and influence capabilities.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in consulting, enterprise transformation, governance, analytics, data management, AI enablement, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing governance programs, operating models, Centers of Excellence (CoEs), or enterprise adoption strategies.
- Experience working with analytics and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, Looker) and understanding how governance enables trusted analytics.
- Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives involving business, analytics, AI, compliance, and technology stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with business, analytics, data, and technology leaders to drive governance, adoption, or organizational change.
- Familiarity with Responsible AI principles, AI governance practices, data governance frameworks, or enterprise risk management approaches is highly desirable.
- Experience working with large enterprise organizations is preferred.
- Experience creating reusable methodologies, frameworks, or consulting assets is strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
Core Competencies
- Strategic Consulting: Connect governance initiatives to measurable business outcomes, adoption goals, organizational transformation, and value realization.
- Stakeholder Influence: Build alignment across business, analytics, data, and technology stakeholders with varying priorities and levels of governance maturity.
- Governance & AI Leadership: Strong understanding of how organizations scale analytics, automation, and AI capabilities responsibly and sustainably.
- Organizational Change Leadership: Drive stakeholder alignment, adoption, and organizational change necessary for governance success.
- Framework Development: Create practical, scalable methodologies, maturity models, governance frameworks, and best practices.
- Systems Thinking: Assess complex organizational environments and design governance approaches that balance control, agility, innovation, and business outcomes.
- Practice Development: Build reusable intellectual property, delivery assets, and consulting approaches that scale impact across customers and teams.
Success Measurements
- Customer governance and adoption maturity improvements.
- Successful implementation of governance and AI enablement frameworks.
- Positive customer outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Creation and adoption of reusable governance methodologies, maturity models, and delivery assets.
- Contribution to governance-related services growth and strategic customer opportunities.
- Advancement of Alteryx’s governance consulting capabilities and market leadership.
Compensation
Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. The salary range for this role in the United States is $136,600 - $177,050. Bonus payouts are based on individual and company performance. This role also includes a monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 and an annual $200 home office reimbursement.
Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave, caregiver leave, flexible time off, mental health support, and career development assistance.
Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!
We encourage you to apply if you meet some of the requirements and share our values. Alteryx is invested in building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams.
Key skills/competency
- Analytics Governance
- AI Governance
- Responsible AI
- Enterprise Governance Strategy
- Consulting
- Organizational Change Management
- Data Governance
- AI Enablement
- Framework Development
- Stakeholder Management
Skills & topics
- Analytics Governance
- AI Governance
- Responsible AI
- Consultant
- Data Governance
- Enterprise Strategy
- Alteryx
- AI Enablement
- Consulting
- Governance Frameworks
- Senior Consultant
- Analytics
- AI
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in analytics governance, AI, and consulting roles.
- Showcase expertise: Emphasize designing governance frameworks and leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrate AI knowledge: Detail experience with Responsible AI principles and AI governance.
- Prepare for case studies: Be ready to discuss strategic consulting and organizational change.
- Research Alteryx: Understand their mission and how governance drives value.
Technical preparation
Master analytics and AI governance principles.,Study Alteryx platform capabilities.,Understand Responsible AI frameworks.,Practice designing operating models.
Behavioral questions
Describe a complex governance challenge.,How do you influence stakeholders?,Share an experience leading change.,How do you balance innovation and risk?
Frequently asked questions
- What is the salary range for the Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance role at Alteryx?
- The salary range for this position in the United States is $136,600 - $177,050 annually, with potential for bonus payouts based on performance.
- Is the Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance position remote?
- Yes, this position is remote-friendly. Alteryx also provides a monthly Connectivity Plus stipend and an annual home office reimbursement to support remote work.
- What are the key responsibilities of a Principal Consultant at Alteryx?
- Key responsibilities include designing enterprise governance strategies for analytics and AI, advising on Responsible AI, leading customer consulting engagements, and contributing to Alteryx's Governance Practice development.
- What qualifications are essential for the Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance role?
- Essential qualifications include 8+ years of experience in consulting or related fields, demonstrated experience in governance program design, familiarity with analytics platforms, and success in leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Does Alteryx offer benefits for this role?
- Yes, Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, paid leave, mental health support, and career development assistance.
- How does Alteryx approach compensation for this Principal Consultant role?
- Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation is determined by factors like experience, education, skills, and location, in addition to base pay and bonus eligibility.
- What kind of travel is expected for the Principal Consultant, Analytics & AI Governance?
- The role requires the ability to travel up to 10%, likely for customer engagements or company meetings.
- What is the role of AI governance at Alteryx?
- AI governance at Alteryx focuses on advising customers on Responsible AI practices, developing frameworks for AI adoption, managing AI risks, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and regulations.