CodeNinja Inc.

Lead Strategy Consultant - Digital Innovation

CodeNinja Inc.  •  Riyadh, SA (Onsite)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Strategy Consultant – Digital Innovation with over 15 years of consulting expertise, including mandatory experience with a Big 4 firm, to lead enterprise-wide digital innovation and transformation strategy initiatives.

The consultant will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, driving strategic planning, innovation roadmaps, and governance across large-scale, complex organizations. This role requires strong onsite presence, executive stakeholder engagement, and hands-on leadership in delivering high-impact transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy & Strategic Advisory

  • Lead the development of enterprise digital and business strategies aligned with organizational vision and long-term objectives.
  • Define digital innovation roadmaps, including operating models, capability-building initiatives, and transformation priorities.
  • Conduct market, industry, and competitive assessments to support strategic decision-making.

2. Digital Innovation & Transformation

  • Identify, evaluate, and shape innovation opportunities leveraging emerging technologies such as AI, data analytics, automation, and digital platforms
  • Translate innovation concepts into actionable initiatives, including business cases, implementation plans, and value realization frameworks.
  • Support the design and rollout of digital governance models, KPIs, and performance measurement structures.

3. Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives and senior leadership
  • Lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with business, technology, and external partners.
  • Facilitate executive workshops, strategic planning sessions, steering committees, and stakeholder alignment forums.

4. Delivery Oversight & Transformation Governance

  • Oversee end-to-end strategy delivery, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, and quality standards.
  • Establish transformation governance structures, reporting mechanisms, and executive dashboards.
  • Ensure strategic initiatives translate into measurable business outcomes and sustained value.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • 15+ years of consulting experience with a strong focus on strategy, innovation, and digital transformation.
  • Mandatory experience with a Big 4 consulting firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, or KPMG).
  • Proven track record delivering large-scale transformation and digital strategy engagements.
  • Strong onsite client engagement experience in complex enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and engage senior decision-makers effectively.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, storytelling, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Experience

  • Experience leading digital innovation programs in large enterprises or regulated industries.
  • Exposure to emerging technologies, digital business models, and platform-driven transformation.
  • Background in financial services, government, or large corporates is a strong advantage.
CodeNinja Inc.

About CodeNinja Inc.

CodeNinja is a Middle Eastern–American Software & AI company helping businesses build AI systems and learning architectures for mission-critical workloads.

With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Riyadh, and Lahore, our work centers on enabling organizations to develop capabilities across workplaces and factory floors using both open-source and proprietary AI models, spanning generative and deterministic systems.

We believe most workplaces and factory floors are not ready for the post-AGI era of work. Our mission is to help enterprises reimagine how work itself is organized and executed so that human talent and automation not only coexist but thrive. We call this mission: “Reimagining Workplaces for Post-AGI Readiness.”

At the core of our approach is Hyper Tools, our integrated Platform + Services model, designed to accelerate the creation of AI applications and agents in complex domains. Hyper Tools reduces the generality of large models through reinforcement learning, rapid development workflows and purpose built synthetic and manual Data creation.

Our focus spans four core thrust areas:

Physical AI Systems – Building AI/ML systems for physical infrastructure. Some of the world’s leading chemical and energy companies rely on CodeNinja’s outcome-based, vendor-independent models to enhance operational efficiency and revenue.

Work AI – Developing agentic AI systems that transform workplace processes into adaptive, intelligent experiences.

Hyper Core – Enabling enterprises to build software and automation layers in-house instead of outsourcing to Software Services Vendors.

Global Capability & AI Centers – Partnering with universities and developer communities in South Asia and South America to build AI and research talent pipelines, helping global companies scale their capabilities sustainably.

Founded by 4 Engineers and incredible team of operators, CodeNinja is united by this mantra of " Inspiration and Innovation for every knowledge worker in the world"

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Year Founded
2014
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