AI Solutions Lead

R/GA Careers Page • Los Angeles, CA

2d • $150,000 - $170,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Addition, R/GA’s applied intelligence studio, partners with leading brands to apply frontier AI and human-centered design to communications, customer experiences, and internal business workflows. The AI Solutions Lead runs applied AI strategy on client engagements, assessing readiness, leading discovery, defining solutions, and building phased roadmaps and measurement plans that design, engineering, and production teams can deliver. The role sits within the Strategy team, reports to the AI Solutions Director, and works closely with designers, AI engineers, producers, and the management team.

This is a hands-on, end-to-end engagement role. The AI Solutions Lead conducts stakeholder interviews, synthesizes findings into executive readouts, drafts technically credible roadmaps and measurement plans, and serves as a day-to-day strategic voice for both client and project teams. The role helps raise the standard for scoping, measuring, and delivering applied AI work, and improves Addition’s discovery, roadmapping, and measurement playbook across engagements.

The position is based in the NYC/Tri-State area, Greater Los Angeles area, or San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates must be within commuting distance of the listed regions or willing to relocate. The role uses a hybrid work model with regular in-person collaboration and team and client workshops. The hiring range is $150,000 to $170,000.

Requirements

• At least 7 years in strategy, solutions, or technical consulting roles at agencies, consultancies, or technology companies.
• Proven experience leading discovery engagements, including stakeholder interviews, landscape assessments, and strategic readouts.
• Working technical fluency in generative AI and AI systems.
• Comfort presenting to senior client stakeholders and defending recommendations under questioning.
• Experience scoping and structuring AI or digital transformation workstreams.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, design, and production.
• Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in an agency, studio, or consultancy where projects move quickly and strategy spans diverse client work.
• Hands-on experience scoping, prototyping, or shipping solutions involving LLMs, agents, or generative tools.
• Ability to work credibly with both marketing leadership and engineering.
• Experience building or contributing to repeatable frameworks for opportunity assessment, roadmapping, or measurement.

Responsibilities

• Run structured stakeholder interviews across client organizations, from product and engineering teams to executive leadership, to identify needs, constraints, and opportunities.
• Design and lead user research, including usability testing, journey mapping, and interviews, to ground solutions in observed user behavior.
• Lead AI readiness assessments and define solutions connecting business objectives and user needs to technical execution.
• Determine feasibility, value, and priorities, then develop phased plans that engineering teams can scope against.
• Define success metrics, KPIs, and measurement frameworks for AI initiatives; work with engineering to instrument evaluations, report results, and share learnings with clients.
• Synthesize research and discovery into clear, actionable strategic readouts.
• Explain technical complexity to C-suite and senior technical audiences in ways that support decision-making.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and production to shape scopes, validate approaches, and ensure roadmaps translate into deliverable work.
• Apply Addition’s discovery, roadmapping, and measurement frameworks and provide feedback to improve the playbook.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed