Data & AI Principal

As a Principal in our team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data offerings, leading business development, and driving strategic digital transformation for our clients. This role is not about writing code or designing deep technical pipelines—it is about bridging the gap between business strategy, organizational change, and high-impact data solutions. You will act as a senior advisor to client leadership, helping them unlock measurable business value from their data assets. Working alongside software developers, designers, and data scientists, you will turn complex client challenges into commercial opportunities, steering engagements from initial concept through to successful business outcomes. What you’ll do Drive commercial growth by building and refining our Data team’s service offerings. You will shape opportunities, lead sales discussions, write proposals, and expand key accounts. Serve as a trusted consultant for C-suite and senior business stakeholders, translating organizational challenges, industry trends, and business processes into clear data strategies and roadmaps. Focus on outcome-driven digital transformation—ensuring data initiatives directly improve operational efficiency, stream processes, or create competitive advantage for our clients Lead client relationships and workshops, framing ambiguous business problems into structured projects, and managing senior-level stakeholder expectations Partner closely with Futurice’s design, software engineering, and AI capabilities to ensure data solutions integrate seamlessly into broader digital ecosystems and enterprise platforms. Stay ahead of industry trends in data-driven operations, capture best practices and reusable assets, and mentor team members in commercial awareness and consultant skills What we hope you bring: Exceptional communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills across both business and technical audiences. Strong background in business development, pre-sales, and account growth within a consulting, agency, or corporate advisory environment. Deep understanding of core business operations (e.g., sales, supply chain, financial operations, or customer experience) and how data can be leveraged to optimize them. Solid conceptual understanding of the modern data landscape (e.g., cloud ecosystems, data platforms, analytics, and business intelligence) to guide clients, without needing to be a hands-on technical architect. Background in management consulting, technology advisory, or digital agency account management. Experience in leading change management or business transformation initiatives driven by data and analytics. Fluent Finnish and English skills. Futurice offers you Besides our overall cultural and organizational model, we support your growth as a professional. As an agency, we have a versatile portfolio of projects, and we solve different kinds of problems that require different kinds of tools. For you, this means the chance of a lifetime to pursue your learning goals and broaden your skill set. You will be inspired and supported throughout your journey, as our aspiration is to be the Ultimate Learning Platform for your career. On top of this, you get the opportunity to work with the most motivated and multi talented forces in development, design and strategy. In addition, we listed here some of the perks we offer: Futurice Hybrid Work Model Free choice of laptop, phone, tablet, headphones and other work gear Sports and lunch benefit Futurice's clubs for free-time activities Learning events Certification programs Compensation Your complete compensation package will be discussed in detail during the recruitment process. Our salary model is designed to offer a range of levels based on three factors: skills, responsibilities and impact. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and advance in their career and become better versions of themselves. During the initial interview round, we will discuss the salary range for this position. We offer a fixed salary with the possibility of performance-based bonuses and additional benefits. Next steps If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for and are ready to take the next step, please submit your application. Our application form is about as easy as it gets. All you need to do is enter your contact information and upload your attachments. We’d love to see a CV, and a few lines about yourself and why you want to join Futurice. You can also submit links to your LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile or your portfolio, as well as share other attachments relevant to the application. After we receive your application, we will reach out to you. Those selected for the interview phase can look forward to an initial discussion that will help us get to know you better, and you to get more info about life at Futurice. This is followed by an in-depth talk with your potential future colleagues to dive deeper into your professional skills. Finally, there’s a general chat to discuss things like your potential future projects. It is also worth mentioning that reference calls are an integral part of our recruitment process.