Senior Consultant - AI People Enablement

About the role

Protiviti is hiring an AI People Enablement Senior Consultant for its Business Performance Improvement team, based in Chicago (also Austin, Dallas and Houston). As a mentor, trainer and coach to interns and consultants, you help clients turn AI investments into sustained workforce adoption, redesigned work and measurable business value, bridging technology deployment and workforce activation.

Key responsibilities

• Mentor, train and coach interns and consultants, and help them complete project work plans while identifying risks and efficiency opportunities.
• Strengthen relationships with client personnel and professional associates.
• With managers' direction, take responsibility for project scope, staffing, deliverables and methodology application.
• Help clients adopt AI through workforce readiness assessments, adoption diagnostics, activation campaigns, adoption roadmaps and champion/super-user networks.
• Build role-based learning journeys, AI Academy content, manager enablement toolkits and learning-in-the-flow-of-work experiences.
• Support AI-enabled organization design, including team composition, spans of control, job redesign, role definitions and decision rights.
• Redesign AI-enabled workflows, handoffs, escalation paths and governance controls, and support workforce transition plans.
• Support value realization, KPI frameworks, cost-benefit assessments and business cases, and prepare executive-ready client deliverables.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
• 2+ years in organizational change, workforce transformation, organization design, change management, L&D, HR transformation, operating model design or value realization, in professional services or industry.
• Experience supporting technology, digital, automation or AI transformation programs strongly preferred.
• Supervisory experience mentoring and overseeing teams.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills.
• Plus: exposure to organization design, job architecture, champion networks or benefits realization; familiarity with OrgVue, Celonis, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Agentforce or similar; PROSCI, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP or PMP certification.

What we offer

• Salary range of $98,000-$146,000, with a 10% bonus target; total cash range $107,800-$160,600.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage, FSA/HSA, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and 401(k) with 50% employer match on the first 6%.
• Choice Time Off and up to 11 paid holidays.