Senior Manager - AI Delivery Lead at Sia
San Francisco, CA
$180,000–$210,000from the description
Jun 28, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior consulting role focused on guiding large enterprises through the full lifecycle of AI adoption — from identifying workflow opportunities and designing use cases to deploying and scaling AI agents, copilots, and automation in day-to-day operations. The position spans program governance, executive stakeholder management, and organizational change, while also contributing to practice development and client growth. Best suited to someone with a decade of enterprise transformation experience who has personally delivered AI-enabled solutions alongside business and engineering teams.
Senior level · 10+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 290 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 120–430
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $161,700 (middle half $102,340–$206,460). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role sits at an unusual intersection: it is primarily an AI transformation delivery/program leadership role within a management consultancy, not a pure software engineering or people-management role. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the best fit for an AI delivery lead whose day-to-day work spans operationalizing AI, workflow design, and program governance; 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is a genuine runner-up given the cross-functional leadership, executive advisory, and practice development responsibilities — however, the JD emphasizes hands-on delivery and individual contribution over direct people management.
The title 'Senior Manager' at a consulting firm maps to a senior individual contributor / engagement lead, not a people manager with direct reports in the traditional sense; the JD explicitly frames this as an IC-plus-advisory role, so seniority is assessed as Senior rather than Staff or Principal.
LLMs, AI agents, and prompt engineering are listed under the Required qualifications section with firm language ('strong understanding of generative AI concepts including LLMs, AI agents, workflow orchestration, prompt engineering…').
OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, LangChain, and workflow automation tools appear under the Preferred section ('Hands-on experience with platforms and tools such as…') and are therefore preferred, not required.
ServiceNow, Smartsheet, MS Project, Azure DevOps, and Tableau appear under Preferred with the qualifier 'is a plus', confirming they are not hard gates.
PMP, Scaled Agile, Scrum Master, and Lean Six Sigma certifications are explicitly listed as 'preferred' in the Preferred section.
Master's degree is listed as preferred; Bachelor's degree is explicitly required — the degree requirement is set to Bachelors accordingly.
The role requires physical presence in San Francisco (3+ days/week in office); remote=false.
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