Senior Manager, AI Tools & Services

Role Description

BluWave is hiring a Senior Manager, AI Tools & Services as its senior subject matter expert on AI tools and services for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. This is a player-coach role combining hands-on client advisory work, running scoping calls, making prescriptive AI recommendations, and owning category intelligence with direct management of a team.

This role is one of the most exciting seats we have ever hired for! You would manage BluWave’s rapidly growing AI tools and services lane, which means you will be the credible expert that PE professionals and portfolio company executives call when they need to make AI tools and enablement decisions. You will be building the network and serving as the voice they trust to make the recommendation. It's advisory work with real commercial impact and a direct line to some of the most sophisticated business builders in the world.

What you'll be doing:

• Own the AI Tools & Services category within the BluWave Network, including category intelligence, provider curation, and quality standards.
• Serve as the senior voice on client scoping calls; diagnose AI needs and deliver specific, defensible tool and service recommendations.
• Further build and maintain a best-in-class provider network: recruit, onboard, and manage AI service firms and software vendors relevant to PE-backed businesses.
• Build BluWave’s AI-powered software tools ecosystem covering Office of the CFO needs and other developing categories.
• Partner with BluWave’s Client Coverage and Marketing teams on demand generation, critical client opportunities and challenges, and category thought leadership.
• Manage a direct report and utilize cutting-edge AI resources for force multiplication.
• Provide leadership on the future growth and development of BluWave’s AI-powered network offerings.

Qualifications

• 8–13 years of experience in technology advisory, software selection, solutions engineering, or AI consulting (preference for 10–12 years).
• Proven ability to communicate with and advise senior decision-makers and drive alignment; can provide specific examples of guiding clients or stakeholders from options to a clear recommendation and commitment.
• Deep, active fluency in the AI enablement and tools landscapes; regularly uses and evaluates AI tools and can speak to specific solutions implemented or recommended, including rationale and tradeoffs considered.
• Strong diagnostic and advisory skills; able to quickly assess a client situation, identify where AI tools or services apply, and deliver a clear, actionable recommendation.
• Strong ability to integrate the powers of AI with human intelligence to form a greater integrated value proposition for customers.
• Hands-on technical literacy with the ability to credibly evaluate vendor solutions, engage on implementation considerations, and ask the right questions on behalf of a buyer.
• Expert ability to transform manual processes into automated, intelligent workflows.
• Background from tech transformation/software-selection.

Bonus Backgrounds

• Working experience with Office of the CFO AI and related software tools and/or enablement services.
• Prior experience in or direct exposure to private equity or PE-backed portfolio company environments.
• Experience building or scaling a service or product category within an existing firm.