Senior AI Tech Scout - Tooling

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

About Crowe AI

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, modern architectures, and industry experts, to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.

As a member of the AI Studio, you will seek to understand and solve business problems at their earliest stage, distinguishing Crowe in the market and driving the firm’s technology and innovation strategy.

About The Team

• We foster good science. You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your area and beyond.
• We learn together. You have plenty of options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular AI ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, and weekly “10P” independent time for ongoing learning.
• We truly value work-life balance. Our distributed team offers unlimited PTO and a flexible work-from-home policy. We actively discourage weekend and off-hours work (unless that’s your jam).
  
  

About The Role

• As the Sr. AI Tech Scout, you will lead a dynamic team responsible for the exploration, evaluation, and benchmarking of cutting-edge AI technologies from startups’ latest offerings to new features from major players like Microsoft and OpenAI.
• Oversee the testing, analysis, and comparison of new AI models, techniques, and tooling solutions, ensuring alignment with Crowe’s strategic objectives.
• Develop and refine comprehensive frameworks for evaluating AI technologies that inform critical buy-build decisions, firm investments, and client advisory.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technological advancements, regulatory changes, and industry trends to guide the team’s focus and methodologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including legal, risk, and privacy, to ensure that recommended AI solutions meet compliance and ethical standards.
• Champion the dissemination of technological insights and findings across the organization; collaborate with Enablement team to upskill colleagues on new AI tools.
  
  

Required Skills

• Experience managing small technical teams, with a focus on innovation and strategic analysis.
• Expertise in data science and machine learning technologies, with specific knowledge in areas like Generative AI and Large Language Models.
• Experience using low- and no-code solutions to build and test machine learning models, such as VectorShift, Dataiku, and Microsoft’s Copilot Studio.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize findings into actionable insights.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including to non-technical stakeholders at various levels.
• Robust understanding of the ethical, security, and privacy considerations in deploying AI solutions; familiarity with common risk and compliance frameworks, such as NIST and SOC 2. 
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate market trends and align technological capabilities with business needs.
• Experience developing and implementing testing frameworks and methodologies.
  
  

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:

Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.