Senior Functional Consultant, AI/ML Implementation

Icertis
Icertis

Software Engineering, Data Science · Full-time

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on Sep 8, 2026

The Functional Consultant will be the primary point of contact for customers on all functional requirements related to contract intelligence, legacy contract migration, and AI-driven analytics implementations. This role requires a strong understanding of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), data migration, and AI-powered contract analytics solutions. The consultant will work closely with customers to define business outcomes, configure solutions, improve extraction accuracy, and ensure successful adoption of Icertis AI/ML products. The primary goal is to earn customer trust by providing expert guidance, translating business requirements into scalable solutions, and delivering measurable business value throughout the implementation lifecycle.


Icertis is the global leader in AI-powered contract intelligence. The Icertis platform revolutionizes contract management, equipping customers with powerful insights and automation to grow revenue, control costs, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance - the pillars of business success. Today, more than one third of the Fortune 100 trust Icertis to realize the full intent of millions of commercial agreements in 90+ countries.


Who we are: Icertis is the only contract intelligence platform companies trust to keep them out in front, now and in the future. Our unwavering commitment to contract intelligence is grounded in our FORTE values—Fairness, Openness, Respect, Teamwork and Execution—which guide all our interactions with employees, customers, partners, and stakeholders. Because in our mission to be the contract intelligence platform of the world, we believe how we get there is as important as the destination.

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  • 4+ years of experience in enterprise software consulting, business analysis, CLM, procurement, legal technology, or related domains.
  • Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, contract operations, or document-intensive business processes.
  • Experience facilitating customer workshops, gathering business requirements, and translating business needs into solution recommendations.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage business and executive stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and collaborate across customer, product, and delivery teams.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering business outcomes.
  • Experience supporting software implementations, migrations, or transformation initiatives.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.
  • Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Management, Information Systems, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms.
  • Familiarity with contract migration, data quality, or business process transformation projects.
  • Knowledge of legal, procurement, sales, or compliance functions.
  • Experience working with global enterprise customers.
  • Consulting or customer success experience within SaaS or enterprise software organizations.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Law, or a related field.
  • 3–7+ years of experience in AI, analytics, contract lifecycle management (CLM), legal technology, or enterprise consulting.
  • Hands-on experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Strong understanding of contract analytics, metadata extraction, clause identification, and AI-driven document intelligence.
  • Experience analyzing structured and unstructured data to generate actionable business insights.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across business, legal, procurement, and IT teams.
  • Experience in customer consulting, solution implementation, and pre-sales activities is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled CLM platforms and cloud-based AI technologies is an added advantage.


AI & Analytics Solution Design

  • Design and implement AI-powered contract intelligence solutions using Vera Analytics Advanced (VAA).
  • Analyze customer contract portfolios to define metadata, clause extraction, risk assessment, and analytics requirements.
  • Translate business and legal needs into scalable AI-driven solution designs and implementation strategies.

Prompt Engineering & AI Optimization

  • Develop, configure, test, and refine AI prompts to accurately extract contractual insights from unstructured documents.
  • Validate AI-generated outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, and business relevance.
  • Continuously optimize prompt strategies and extraction logic based on customer feedback, testing results, and evolving use cases.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to enhance AI model performance, usability, and adoption.

Data Analysis & Insight Validation

  • Analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured contract data to uncover risks, obligations, compliance gaps, trends, and commercial opportunities.
  • Validate extracted metadata, clauses, and AI-generated insights against business requirements and expected outcomes.
  • Ensure the quality, integrity, and reliability of AI-driven analytics and reporting.

Customer Engagement & Consulting

  • Act as a trusted advisor to business, legal, procurement, and IT stakeholders throughout the implementation lifecycle.
  • Lead customer workshops, discovery sessions, and solution design discussions to align AI capabilities with business objectives.
  • Drive user adoption and value realization by demonstrating best practices and enabling successful VAA deployments.
  • Support pre-sales activities, including solution demonstrations, effort estimation, and proposal development.

Practice Development & Innovation

  • Develop implementation accelerators, reusable assets, best practices, and delivery playbooks to improve project efficiency.
  • Mentor and coach junior consultants and analysts on AI, contract analytics, and implementation methodologies.
  • Contribute to innovation initiatives focused on Generative AI (GenAI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), contract intelligence, and emerging AI technologies.
  • Stay current with advancements in AI and analytics to continuously enhance solution capabilities and delivery excellence.

  • Drive execution of Icertis AI/ML product implementations for enterprise customers in accordance with Icertis implementation methodology, within the agreed scope, schedule, and effort.
  • Lead discovery workshops to understand customer objectives, contract portfolios, data sources, business processes, and reporting requirements.
  • Conceptualise and design best-of-breed solutions that address customer business objectives through AI-powered contract intelligence and analytics.
  • Gather, document, and analyse functional requirements, use cases, business rules, and success criteria.
  • Configure Prompts and validate AI-driven extraction, classification, clustering, and analytics capabilities to meet customer expectations.
  • Collaborate with customers to define attributes, clauses, contract relationships, validation approaches, and migration acceptance criteria.
  • Execute functional testing, validation exercises, user acceptance testing, and remediation activities to improve overall solution accuracy.
  • Analyse large contract repositories and identify trends, risks, obligations, metadata, and business insights through AI-powered solutions.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Migration, Prompt Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure successful project delivery.
  • Provide quality assurance and functional support across multiple customer engagements.
  • Conduct customer demonstrations, training workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and go-live readiness activities.
  • Contribute to consulting capability development, reusable assets, implementation accelerators, and best practices within the Professional Services organisation.
  • Provide product feedback and implementation insights that help shape future product enhancements and roadmap priorities.