AI Strategist

Crucibl•San Francisco, CA

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

Why Crucibl Management consulting is a $400B industry built on selling intelligence-for-hire. The model is breaking - not slowly, but now. The biggest frontier in enterprise AI isn't better models. It's judgment at scale: taking the messy, ambiguous decisions that run 85% of the global economy and making them faster, crisper, and more defensible. Crucibl is building that. We're profitable, growing fast, and delivering for Fortune 500 clients. We raised a $10M seed from Tier 1 VCs - then kept growing on revenue. The client pipeline is full. We're scaling to meet it.

Requirements

2+ years at MBB or equivalent top-tier firm - you've owned work streams and presented to senior clients, not just supported them
Sharp judgment - you read situations accurately, update fast, and know the difference between a scope problem and a relationship problem
Exceptional communication - responsive, crisp, client-ready; senior stakeholders trust you immediately
Deeply curious about AI - you don't need to be an engineer, but you reach for new tools unprompted and use them fluently
Strong Signal PE deal team or operator experience - you know what it means to be on the hook for the outcome, not just the analysis
Has led an AI-powered initiative - fast to ramp, not just familiar
Entrepreneurial streak - you've built something, started something, or operated somewhere with nowhere to hide

Nice To Haves

Pure MBB without operational exposure - strategy without touching grass isn't enough
Traditional PMs - this role owns client outcomes, not backlogs

Responsibilities

Own engagements end-to-end - scope the problem, structure the analysis, deliver the recommendation
Discern what clients need from what they ask for - then architect the right MVP, Phase I, Phase II
Build senior stakeholder relationships that expand our footprint; grow accounts, not just serve them
Take ambiguous, messy business questions and break them into frameworks our AI agents can execute against
Make calls with incomplete information - you don't wait for perfect data to move
Know when the deliverable isn't landing and course-correct before the client tells you
Be the voice of the client inside the company, and a credible one. Engineering needs to trust your read on what matters and why.
Know when to push for the right solution and when to accept the trade-off - velocity, complexity, and client need are always in tension
Translate what you're seeing in the field into product thinking: not just "the client wanted this" but "here's the pattern, here's what it means, here's what we should build"
The relationship with engineering is a partnership, not a handoff - you'll disagree, debate, and build something neither of you could have alone
The delivery team is small and the playbook is yours to write. How we scope, how we deliver, how we know it worked - that becomes the standard we hire against.
Define what exceptional delivery looks like at Crucibl
Set the bar for the next wave of hires
Build something that outlasts any single project and scales beyond you