About Keystone AI
For more than two decades, Keystone AI has been a premier, tech-forward strategy and economics consulting firm, helping leading technology companies, global brands, and top law firms solve their most complex challenges in competition, strategy, and regulation.
Our founders believed that modern consulting should integrate economics, strategy, and technology to drive true digital transformation and business model innovation. That's what we call our Triad of Skills. Keystone brings this interdisciplinary approach to the forefront of influential technology cases, changing consumer behavior and regulation laws and impacting society on a global scale, by leveraging the intersection of economics, technology, and business strategy to deliver transformative ideas.
As we rapidly expand globally, we are redefining what a consulting firm can be.
Economic, Technology, and Strategy Advisory (ETSA)
Keystone's practices sit within our Economic, Technology, and Strategy Advisory (ETSA) group, which provides expert guidance across high-stakes business, legal, and technology challenges.
What We Do
ETSA leverages Keystone's connections with leading industry and academic experts to solve complex legal and regulatory issues and win high-stakes legal cases. Through our Centres of Excellence in Keystone Economics and Keystone Advanced Technology Services, we unite economists, technologists and management scientists to solve the hardest problems facing our clients
How We Operate
Our tech-native, internal consultants bring unique insights and experience to evaluate and solve client issues. Our economic, industry, and tech experts carry out in-depth analysis, build robust data and technology solutions, and produce economic and technology reports that win cases.
Who We Serve
Our ETSA group helps major law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, leading technology companies, and government agencies.
Our practice areas
- Antitrust & Competition
- Financial Economics, Tax, and Securities (FETS)
- Intellectual Property (IP)
- Information Strategy, Risk and Regulation (ISRR)
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Technical Investigations
- Behavioral Insights
- Strategy Consulting
Engagement Manager, Technical Investigations Practice (Dubai, UAE)
Engagement Managers in the Technical Investigations Practice operate at the intersection of strategy and technology. They lead client engagements spanning AI governance, cybersecurity, data privacy, blockchain forensics, sanctions compliance, and other complex digital challenges. They design analytical frameworks, guide cross-functional teams, and ensure that rigorous technical insights translate into strategic and regulatory impact.
Dubai is Keystone AI's newest office and a regional hub for innovation and technical excellence. It will extend our reach across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, with a focus on AI transformation, digital forensics, and applied data science. Joining this team means shaping a new office - its culture, capabilities, and client footprint in one of the world's fastest-growing, AI-forward regions.
Role Expectations
As an Engagement Manager, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers, and strategists to address complex technology and regulatory challenges for Keystone clients. You will ensure analytical rigor, oversee solution design, and translate sophisticated findings into recommendations that influence senior decision-makers.
You Will
- Lead client engagements involving AI, data analytics, digital risk, emerging technology governance, and regulatory compliance.
- Integrate management science frameworks with advanced computational methods to create structured, defensible solutions to complex client questions.
- Oversee development and validation of analytical models, investigative workflows, and technology assessments.
- Collaborate with senior Keystone experts, academic affiliates, and client leadership to deliver exceptional, high-impact work.
- Mentor junior consultants and technical staff, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Contribute to business development and thought leadership, shaping the growth of Keystone's technology and investigations practice.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree (MS, MEng, MBA, or PhD) in Computer Science, Management Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field
- 58 years of experience in consulting, investigations, risk management, data analytics, or technology strategy
- Demonstrated success leading complex, data-driven projects with strategic or regulatory dimensions
- Strong technical literacy in data science, AI/ML, cloud platforms, or digital risk, paired with a strategic problem-solving mindset
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to connect analytical results to client strategy
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
- Intellectual agility, entrepreneurial drive, and enthusiasm for solving multidisciplinary challenges
Why Keystone AI
Join a fast-growing, tech-enabled consulting firm that partners with the world's leading companies on their most critical challenges and biggest opportunities.
- Work on frontier matters shaping the future of AI, data, and digital regulation
- Collaborate with leading academics and experts from institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Wharton
- Apply a unique blend of management science and computer science to real-world challenges across technology, litigation, policy, and strategy
- Thrive in a culture defined by collaboration, curiosity, and excellence - where your ideas have direct, tangible impact
Salary Range: Competitive with an annual discretionary bonus, pension contribution, and competitive benefits package. Actual compensation within the range will depend upon the level the individual is hired into based on their skills, experience, and qualifications.
At Keystone we believe diversity matters. At every level of our firm, we seek to advance and promote diversity, foster an inclusive culture, and ensure our colleagues have a deep sense of respect and belonging. If you are interested in growing your career with colleagues from varied backgrounds and cultures, consider Keystone AI.
