Engagement Manager (Strategy & Data/AI Transformation)

Artefact is a next-generation strategy and data consulting firm dedicated to transforming organisations through data and AI. We combine the rigour of top-tier strategy consulting with deep expertise in data, digital and analytics to help clients achieve tangible business impact.
With 2,500+ consultants, data scientists and engineers, we work with global leaders such as Samsung, L’Oréal, Orange and Sanofi. As an Engagement Manager in our Zurich or Lausanne office, you will work at the intersection of strategy consulting and data and AI delivery. Solution Design: Turn a business question into a solution shape — what data it depends on, what kind of platform or product it should sit on, and what “good” looks like once it is built. Project Delivery: Run engagements end to end, from hypothesis framing and market and competitor analysis through to data maturity assessments, client workshops, governance design and implementation roadmaps.
Feasibility & Economics: Own the answer to „will this work, and what will it cost“. Client Engagement: Work closely with C-level stakeholders and business unit leaders. Team Leadership: Lead mixed teams of consultants, data scientists and engineers. You are the person who can tell whether the technical plan is realistic, and the person the client believes when you say that it is.
We are looking for someone who can hold a technical position and a commercial one at the same time, and lead a team through both. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, Economics or a related field. Work Experience: Five to eight years across consulting and technology delivery, including at least one dedicated AI or data project.
You have a deep working understanding of modern data and AI concepts — generative AI and LLMs, retrieval, predictive machine learning, cloud architectures — and of their practical business applications. You think in terms of enterprise architecture — how a solution fits the existing landscape, what it needs from data and governance, and how it scales from pilot to full rollout — and can defend those choices to technical and commercial stakeholders alike. You will not be writing production code, but you should have been close enough to it to be credible with the engineers with which you will collaborate.
You can take a technical trade-off to a non-technical sponsor without flattening it, and be challenged by an engineer without retreating into abstraction. Fluency in German/French and English, written and spoken, is strongly preferred. 
You will help shape Artefact’s footprint in the region and work directly with senior leadership.
Learning & Growth: Regular training in both consulting method and AI and data capability, combined with international exposure.