Applied Agentic AI Strategist

Role: Applied Agentic AI Strategist

Location: London, UK

Career Level: Manager

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

AI is changing how consumers discover, evaluate and buy — and most brands aren't ready. At Accenture Song, we're building the strategies, architectures and applied solutions that help the world's leading retailers, consumer brands and luxury houses navigate that shift. Not in theory. With real clients, in production.

We're looking for an Applied Agentic AI Strategist to join our Commerce Advisory practice in London — someone who brings together deep AI expertise and genuine commerce instincts, and who's ready to lead major transformations across global brands.

The role

This is a Manager-level position inside one of the fastest-growing parts of our business. You'll shape how global brands respond to agentic commerce — from defining strategy through to designing and prototyping the agents and workflows that make it real.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Help clients shape their agentic strategies, translating complex AI capabilities into practical solutions for business and technical stakeholders at all levels

• Directly lead client projects or critical workstreams, ensuring client satisfaction and successful delivery outcomes

• Design, prototype and launch new agentic workflows and agents integrated within our client’s enterprise technology stacks

• Test and refine applied patterns such as retrieval-augmented copilots, multi-agent orchestration, and workflow automation

• Define and guide Accenture best practices across prompt design, orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI guardrails

• Mentor and upskill cross-functional teams spanning strategy, design, product, and engineering in applying agentic AI effectively

• Contribute to internal accelerators and reusable frameworks that strengthen our Applied Agentic AI capability across Accenture Song

What you'll need (Core Requirements)

• 5+ years of experience in top-tier consulting or a cross-functional role working directly with AI or agentic systems in industry

• Informed understanding of the digital commerce value-chain, the critical technologies and market shaping platforms involved

• Demonstrated experience with GenAI tools and / or agentic platforms, with the ability to engage credibly across strategic and technical conversations

• Working understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, agent orchestration, evaluation approaches, and responsible AI principles

• Experience building and launching AI PoCs, pilots or scaled solutions within enterprise environments

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify complex AI concepts for diverse audiences — from engineers to executives

• A solid grasp of enterprise constraints including security, governance, integration, privacy and scalability

What will make you stand out (Preferred Experience)

• Applied experience within digital experience, commerce, retail, or CPG environments with demonstrated accomplishments

• Hands-on experience with one or more commerce technology platforms — including CMS, PIM, DAM, Search, commerce platforms, merchandising platforms, or marketplace platforms

• Hands-on experience building with one or more agent-building platforms including hyperscaler agent workbenches (e.g. Azure Foundry, Google Vertex AI / Agent Dev Kit, Amazon Bedrock), suite integrated platforms (e.g. Salesforce Agentforce, SAP AI Core, Microsoft Copilot Studio), or OpenAI-based tooling

• Familiarity with interoperability protocols such as MCP, ACP or A2A

• Contributions to AI thought leadership through articles, presentations, or white papers in public domains like LinkedIn or industry publishers

What we'll give you...

A thriving career with the chance to learn from passionate, talented colleagues and mentors. Exciting and varied client work with as much opportunity as you can handle. And a hugely sociable team to get to know.

Our Total Rewards consist of a competitive basic salary, annual performance bonus, opportunities to acquire equity and a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits. These include perks such as:
• Up to 30 days of leave to spend each year plus 3 extra volunteering days per year for charitable work of choice.
• Family-friendly and flexible working policies.
• A range of generous Parental Leave offerings.
• Attractive pension plan with financial wellbeing support and resources.
• Private healthcare insurance plan and Mental Wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme, Career Development and Counselling.

Please note that with all of our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities.

As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Application Deadline: Ongoing
Accenture reserves the right to close the role, at any time.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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