About the Role

We're looking for a Digital Project Lead to join Symphony's growing Digital Consulting practice - a role at the intersection of consulting, technology, and delivery.

As a Digital Project Lead, you'll guide high-impact AI and digital transformation projects from strategy through execution. You'll work directly with senior client stakeholders and engineering teams, ensuring that every engagement delivers measurable business outcomes.

This position suits someone with experience in digital or technology consulting, ideally from a top-tier firm such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture, Deloitte Digital, or similar, who's ready to move beyond frameworks and drive tangible delivery.

About Symphony

Symphony is a global digital consultancy of more than 650 technologists and consultants, combining strategy, engineering, and AI-first delivery.

We partner with Fortune 500 enterprises, private equity firms, and high-growth startups to design, build, and scale next-generation digital and AI solutions.

Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles, Symphony also operates seven technology hubs across Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and the Dominican Republic, alongside a fast-growing remote consulting network.

Responsibilities:

• What you'll do:


Engagement Leadership

• Lead high-impact consulting engagements from scoping through execution.
• Own client interactions and stakeholder alignment, ensuring confidence at every stage.
• Facilitate executive-level sessions, workshops, and governance forums.
• Set the tone for communications and drive structured, outcome-oriented delivery.


Delivery & Strategy Oversight

• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery roadmaps.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape strategy and product direction.
• Identify risks early and proactively course correct.
• Guide deliverables to reflect client priorities, market context, and business outcomes.


Product & Business Framing

• Collaborate with product managers and business leads to define product strategy and positioning.
• Ensure delivery outcomes align with broader business goals and customer needs.
• Support clients in evaluating trade-offs across product, market, and technology.
• Frame recommendations that combine consulting insights with practical product execution.


Team & Stakeholder Management

• Shape team structures and delivery models for business impact.
• Partner with technical and functional leads to balance scope and delivery.
• Mentor and support consultants and junior delivery leads.
• Establish ways of working that build client trust and ensure repeatable success.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years combined engineering and consulting experience (e.g. started in software/data/platform engineering before moving into consulting/delivery).
• Architectural Awareness - understanding enterprise and cloud-native architectures, and how systems scale and interact.
• Integration Strategy - experience defining API/integration approaches across SaaS, data, and legacy environments.
• Data Strategy - ability to shape data models, pipelines, and analytics strategies aligned to business outcomes.
• AI/ML Fluency - awareness of practical AI/ML applications in enterprise (segmentation, forecasting, automation, generative AI pilots).
• Track record of AI-enabled transformation projects.
• Hands-on builder mindset thrives in ambiguity, credible with both execs and engineers.
• Strong consulting skills: client-facing presence, structured delivery, stakeholder management.
• AI practitioner mindset: curious, experimenting with tools, applying AI in practice.

Why Join Us Now?

• Symphony is scaling rapidly; this is a chance to join at a pivotal growth stage.
• The roles we are hiring for have direct impact on our client delivery and future success.
• You'll have visibility with senior leadership and real ownership in your role.
• It's not just a job; it's a chance to help shape how Symphony grows and how we serve our clients.


Candidates join Symphony for the chance to make a difference. They stay because of the culture, the people, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that shapes industries and careers. We combine the agility of a startup with the credibility of a global consultancy.

If you're looking for real responsibility, international exposure, and the chance to be part of something transformative, Symphony is the right next step.
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Please note: Only candidates whose experience closely matches the requirements will be contacted. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom, as Symphony is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.