Managing Consultant - AI Tokenomics

As a Managing Consultant in AI Tokenomics at Capgemini Invent, you will lead the development, delivery and improvement of AI Tokenomics capabilities for our clients. You help organisations understand, govern and optimise token-based AI consumption, connecting AI usage, cost, efficiency and business value across generative and agentic AI workloads. This emerging discipline extends FinOps to the economics of AI, supporting visibility, attribution, forecasting, optimisation and value realisation across technology, finance, product and business stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Develop and implement AI Tokenomics and FinOps for AI strategies for internal and external clients
• Lead AI cost management maturity assessments, discovery workshops and executive stakeholder sessions
• Define governance models, operating models, roles, processes and reporting cadences for token-based AI consumption
• Work with technology, finance, product, sourcing and business teams to align AI consumption with budgets, forecasts and value expectations
• Develop AI spend visibility, allocation, forecasting and showback / chargeback approaches across teams, products, use cases and business outcomes
• Support clients in identifying AI cost and value optimisation opportunities across model selection, usage patterns, prompt design, context management, caching, routing and agentic workflows
• Provide guidance on emerging AI pricing models, token-based consumption, commitment models, vendor comparisons and commercial governance
• Lead the creation of executive reporting on AI usage, token consumption, efficiency, adoption, risk and value realisation
• Shape and contribute to proposals, statements of work, client presentations and leadership briefings
• Develop reusable consulting assets, playbooks, maturity models, frameworks and accelerators to grow the AI Tokenomics practice
• Coach and support AI Tokenomics Analysts and wider FinOps team members
• Stay informed on emerging standards and guidance from the FinOps Foundation, Tokenomics Foundation, Linux Foundation and FOCUS community
• Contribute to business development through proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development and client pitch contributions
• Participate in internal activities including campaign development, think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development and offering development

What you bring

• Previous experience across FinOps, cloud economics, technology cost management, data or financial analysis, AI economics, technology consulting or a related field
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles, cloud financial management and technology value management
• A good understanding of generative AI, large language models and token-based AI cost drivers
• Experience leading client-facing workshops, maturity assessments, operating model design or transformation workstreams
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across technology, finance, sourcing, product and business teams
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex usage and cost data into clear business insight
• Excellent presentation-building, documentation, facilitation and communication skills
• FinOps Certified Practitioner certification
• Experience with reporting, dashboarding or analytical tools such as Power BI, Excel, Apptio, Cloudability, Datadog, Looker or equivalent

Nice to have

• FinOps for AI Certified Practitioner
• FinOps Certified Professional and Certified FOCUS Analyst
• Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Experience developing or scaling a FinOps, AI economics or technology value management capability
• Exposure to AI platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, OpenAI API, Anthropic, Databricks or Snowflake
• Understanding of AI cost drivers including input/output tokens, embeddings, context windows, model routing, retries, caching and agent orchestration
• Experience supporting AI vendor assessments, pricing analysis, commercial models or sourcing negotiations
• Experience developing consulting offers, reusable assets, sales materials or thought leadership
• Familiarity with FOCUS, cloud billing data models, cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly management and optimisation

What we offer

• Client engagements with experienced consulting leadership where you learn hands-on, challenge ideas, and accelerate your delivery capability and industry insights
• Exposure to leading technologies from concept through vision, strategy and execution
• Formal training from industry experts on management consulting and client delivery
• Learning and certification opportunities through internal and partner-led programmes from AWS, Google and Microsoft
• Access to Les Fontaines, Capgemini Invent's unique training environment outside Paris, for immersion in thought-leadership and capability building
• Monthly showcases of initiatives to share knowledge and see technology impact on clients
• Regular team events including monthly team drinks, leadership connect sessions and team away days
• Hybrid working with flexible working arrangements available to all UK employees
• Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy
• A remuneration package with flexible benefits and variable elements dependent on grade and company and personal performance

About Capgemini Invent

Capgemini Invent is the inventive transformation consulting division of Capgemini, a global business and technology transformation partner with 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. Capgemini helps organisations accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, delivering end-to-end services from strategy and design through engineering, powered by market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data.