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# Strategy & Transformation Consultant at Renessai

- **Company:** Renessai
- **Location:** Helsinki, Finland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/renessai-com/am9icG9zdDr0Jwe5BpvaEudvCgGfRtE5

## Job description

## About the role

We are looking for an experienced Strategy & Transformation Consultant to lead our clients transition from initial ideas about AI and data into clear strategies, roadmaps and concrete initiatives that deliver measurable business impact.

You will lead early-phase conversations where AI and data maturity is often low, structure what the client is really trying to achieve, and define a roadmap for success. You will work at the interface of business and technology, from first discussions through to implementation.

We’re open to all experience levels; whether you’ve currently got a couple of years under your belt or you’re already a seasoned pro, we’d love to chat!

## What you will do

Lead early-stage AI & data discussions

- Work with business leaders whose needs are not yet clearly defined.
- Clarify objectives, constraints and expectations, and turn them into structured problem statements and realistic goals.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews and working sessions in environments where AI and data maturity vary widely.

Shape AI strategies, operating models and roadmaps

- Translate business goals into concrete AI and data initiatives, portfolios and roadmaps.
- Define governance and prioritisation to match the client’s maturity and ambition level.
- Design operating models, roles and ways of working needed for sustained AI transformation.

Bridge business stakeholders and technical teams

- Ensure a shared understanding of goals, scope and constraints, and keep alignment from strategy through execution.
- Help clients see where AI makes sense (and where it does not) in the context of their processes, business models and technology.

Support expert-driven sales and case shaping

- Join early client meetings to understand the situation and identify where we can create real value.
- Co-create proposals, scopes and engagement models that are realistic and outcome-driven

Stay close to implementation and value realisation

- Remain engaged as projects move from slides to delivery.
- Safeguard strategic intent and business value while technical teams execute.

Develop our AI transformation thinking and offering

- Contribute to our methods, frameworks and reference cases around AI-enabled transformation.
- Share lessons from client work, and help us refine how we approach AI-enabled business model renewal, process redesign and capability builds.
- Push broader transformation themes with clients, not only react to incoming requests.

## What you bring

Background and experience You are likely to have one or more of the following:

- Solid experience working at the interface of business and data/AI or digital transformation.
- Background in advisory-type consulting (strategy, digital, data/AI), or
- Experience in a larger company in at least middle-management roles with responsibility across multiple stakeholders.
- Proven track record in leading or owning (digital) transformation.
- Especially for less senior applicants: Education that signals strong analytical ability and comfort with complex systems is seen as an advantage (e.g. industrial engineering and management or similar).

## Skills and capabilities

You will need to be comfortable with:

- Leading early-phase, ambiguous discussions and turning them into clear problems, options and decisions.
- Designing AI and data strategies, operating models and roadmaps that fit the client’s context and maturity.
- Structuring thinking for others: frameworks, models, simple visuals that help people align.
- Navigating complex organisations with multiple stakeholders, interests and clients’ internal politics.

You will likely do well in this role if you prefer honest, content-driven discussions over buzzwords, and if you are willing to say “no” or “not yet” when something does not make sense.

Why this role might be interesting for you

Real influence on what gets sold and built You will not be “dropped into” predefined boxes. You will be part of the early discussions, help shape what we propose and how we work with clients, and then stay involved when the work starts.

Authentic expert work, not product pushing We sell through our own expertise and advice, not through rigid offerings that you must push regardless of context.

Blend of strategy and execution You stay close to the work as it moves from strategy to implementation. The aim is real change in how our clients operate, not only decks.

Long-term, strategic client relationships There is clear potential for long-running partnerships where we become a strategic AI and data partner, not just a one-off supplier.

Room to shape your own path You can influence which industries you focus on and how we develop our AI/data transformation offering. There is space to build on your strengths.

Practicalities

- Location: You must be based in Finland and have a valid work permit in Finland.
- Office presence: Ability to visit our Helsinki office roughly once a week (sometimes more depending on client needs).

How to apply

If this sounds like a good fit, send us your CV and we’re happy to tell you more! We review applications continuously.

## About Renessai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Renessai is a strategic AI consultancy that helps organizations navigate AI hype and build real business value by combining strategy, change leadership, and applied technical expertise.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Helsinki, Finland (also has offices in the United States and Berlin, Germany)
- **Founded**: August 2024
- **Founders**: Mikko Koski, Niina Tuikka, Ossi Syd, Aapo Tanskanen, Eija-Leena Koponen, and Jussi Ritola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Business Consulting and Services (AI-focused)
- **Target customers**: B2B; leadership teams and operating teams at Finnish and international organizations across media, engineering, transport, professional services, and more
- **Mission**: Help companies “think beyond AI” by turning fuzzy AI ambition into concrete, measurable outcomes—combining technology, people, and processes to create lasting business value.

## Products & Services
- **AI Strategy & Roadmap**: Prioritization of AI investments, capability audits, and actionable transformation plans.
- **AI Capability Assessment**: Deep-dive evaluations across data, analytics, AI capabilities, and operating models.
- **AI Use‑Case Discovery & Prioritization**: Identifying and ranking high‑impact AI opportunities.
- **Proof‑of‑Concept Design & Delivery**: Rapid, iterative builds to validate AI value before scaling.
- **Generative AI Development**: Custom agents, enterprise knowledge search, automation, multi‑agent workflows.
- **Non‑Generative AI Evaluation & Setup**: Classical ML/LLM solution design and deployment.
- **Interim AI & Digital Leadership**: Acting CAIO/CDO mandates to embed AI capability within client teams.
- **Change Leadership & Organizational Design**: Helping clients adapt roles, processes, and culture for sustained AI adoption.

All engagements are custom‑built; Renessai delivers over 50 projects per year.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 17 employees (as of mid-2026), with +21.4% year‑over‑year headcount growth (+3 people)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors disclosed; the firm is co‑founded and self‑funded by senior practitioners.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Opened a second office in Berlin, Germany, plus a US location within two years of founding.
  - Active hiring (AI Software Engineer, ML/AI Engineer, Strategy & Transformation Consultant posted in 2026).
  - Client base of 30+ organizations across multiple industries.
  - High repeat project volume (50+ projects/year) indicating strong client demand.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep, pre‑hype experience**: The team brings 96+ combined years of AI deployment experience, much of it predating the current generative AI wave.
- **Founder‑led delivery**: The same senior consultants who win the work do the work—no handoffs to junior teams.
- **Outcome‑focused, anti‑hype ethos**: Refuses to sell shelfware or buzzword strategies; engagements are tied to revenue, cost, and risk metrics.
- **Full‑stack AI capability**: Covers strategy, technical build, organizational change, and interim leadership—rare for a boutique consultancy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Building agentic workflows (tool design, context engineering, memory, planning, orchestration, guardrails) and scaling production AI systems for clients; expanding the team with AI Software Engineers and ML/AI Engineers to deepen technical delivery.
- **Growth direction**: Continue hiring in Helsinki and potentially other offices, maintain a low‑bureaucracy culture, and grow through repeat client work and referrals rather than external fundraising.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of “Expeditionaries”—people who tackle unfamiliar problems, help each other, and own real work from day one. The firm is allergic to shelfware and buzzwords.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (office in Helsinki at Bulevardi 6; Berlin and US offices also available). Openings list “Hybrid” in Helsinki.
- **Engineering environment**: Engineers own real pieces of the stack, work directly with clients, and help define how AI‑native development works. Roles involve agent development, evaluation, cloud infrastructure, and cross‑functional collaboration.
- **Perks**: Not detailed, but emphasis on ownership, direct client impact, and a flat structure where “people who win the work do the work.”
- **Recent hiring signals**: Actively recruiting in 2026 for AI Software Engineer, ML/AI Engineer, and Strategy & Transformation Consultant—demonstrating growth and demand for impact‑driven talent.

## Sources
1. [renessai.com](https://www.renessai.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/renessai)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/renessai)
4. [techbehemoths.com](https://techbehemoths.com/company/renessai)

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