Digital & AI Strategy Manager

Digital & AI Strategy Manager at PwC

At PwC, our people in Corporate Technology 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. In technology strategy at PwC, you will specialise in developing and implementing strategic plans to leverage technology for business growth and innovation. You will analyse market trends, assess organisational needs, and provide guidance on technology investments and initiatives. Working in this area, you will collaborate with stakeholders to align technology strategies with overall business objectives to increase utilisation of technology resources, driving competitive advantage.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills for a Digital & AI Strategy Manager

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• 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 a Manager in PwC’s Corporate Technology Strategy team, you will help clients navigate some of their most strategic technology decisions—modernizing IT, designing digital and AI strategies, and shaping future-ready operating models. You will utilize your deep technology skills to support delivery of digital transformation engagements across the entire lifecycle.

You will lead workstreams, coach teams, influence senior stakeholders, and develop strategies that unlock business value through cloud, data, AI, and emerging technologies.

This role is ideal for leaders who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and want to make a visible impact on how organizations use technology to compete and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise clients on their most complex technology strategy problems using the latest frameworks, methodologies, and technologies.
• Build technology solutions using AI and other platforms to enable outstanding client outcomes.
• Supervise, develop, and coach teams in structured problem solving, data-driven analysis, and agile/modern delivery practices.
• Manage key client and stakeholder relationships; facilitate executive-level discussions to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Independently analyze and resolve complex business and technology problems using hypothesis-driven approaches.
• Lead the development of IT operating models and corporate technology strategies aligned to business priorities.
• Drive integrated IT and digital transformation programs across cloud, DevSecOps, data platforms, microservices, and modern engineering.
• Design IT organizations and future-ready technology workforce and sourcing strategies using frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, and TOGAF.
• Develop business cases grounded in financial analysis, value realization, and strategic alignment.
• Foster collaboration across client and internal teams to stimulate innovation in AI and emerging technologies (e.g., quantum, edge, blockchain).

What You Must Have

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 5 years of experience using technology to solve complex corporate technology strategy problems.
• Understanding and experience executing the software development lifecycle in large enterprise.

What Sets You Apart

• Master’s Degree Preferred.

Core Technology Strategy Skills

• Leading engagements in IT cost analysis (FFG), operating model design, and sourcing strategies.
• Developing or implementing enterprise architecture frameworks and technology standards.
• Designing and implementing IT governance, decision rights, KPIs/OKRs, and performance measurement.
• Optimizing IT capabilities, application portfolios, sourcing models, or technology cost structures.
• Designing technology-enabled operating models across people, process, governance, and technology.
• Leading large-scale organizational change, communications, and stakeholder adoption efforts.

Digital & AI Strategy Skills

• Developing enterprise AI strategies, governance structures, and scalable adoption models.
• Ability to design holistic digital transformation strategies that integrate customer, data, and technology insights.
• Applying product management principles and agile practices to align IT value delivery.
• Defining workforce strategies for IT, including skill development, talent models, and capability-building initiatives.
• Leading strategic assessments involving AI, automation, data platforms, digital platforms, or emerging technologies.
• Governing the technology landscape (applications, data, infrastructure) to support enterprise-wide digital goals.

Key skills/competency

• AI Strategy
• Digital Transformation
• Technology Consulting
• IT Operating Models
• Cloud Strategy
• Data Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Case Development