Lead AI Strategist

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Lead AI Strategist for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in the USA. Our client is a designs and develops digital experiences for startups and enterprise clients by combining cutting-edge technologies and innovative methods to create exceptional user experiences, leveraging Generative AI to enhance daily business operations. You will be the end‐to‐end owner for the most impactful customer engagements. Partnering with a senior technical lead, you'll guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and researchers to scope, deliver, and scale AI‐native workflows that materially improve how the customers operate. You'll work directly with executive stakeholders, translate ambiguous problems into clear roadmaps, drive adoption and change management, and hold the team accountable for business outcomes, not just artifacts. Format: remote with periodic client travel. REQUIREMENTS: 8+ years of experience (or equivalent level) in consulting, product, strategy, or program leadership roles delivering technology-enabled change (client-facing required). Fluency in generative-AI concepts (LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering). Proven ability to lead executive-level stakeholder management, align incentives, and de-risk complex initiatives. Strong analytical and product mindset with the ability to turn messy problems into testable plans, write tight PRDs/briefs, and make pragmatic trade-offs. Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication and facilitation skills. Bias for action: builder mentality, prioritizing outcomes over optics. NICE TO HAVE: Domain experience in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare/pharma, or financial services. Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance practices. RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead complex, high-impact client engagements end-to-end from discovery and value targeting through launch and scale-up anchored to business KPIs. Facilitate executive workshops; identify high-leverage use cases; craft AI adoption roadmaps that deliver value in a quarter and compound thereafter. Work in lockstep with a senior technical lead to define scope, cut clean iterations, and de-risk delivery across data, integration, and security constraints. Orchestrate change-management, training, and communications; design workflows that stick; establish governance, playbooks, and measurement. Define success metrics, baselines, and experiment designs; build dashboards and run regular business reviews with client sponsors. Synthesize complex ideas into clear narratives for C-suite executives and frontline operators; create decision-ready briefs and visuals. Mentor peers, standardize repeatable approaches (AI Sprints), and contribute to internal methods and reusable components.