Distribution & Analytics GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC•Boston, MA

3d•$145,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role sits at the front line between product teams and the global Sales & Marketing teams. The role will embed with real users, build working AI prototypes in days, prove what earns adoption, and partner with engineering to productionize the viable ideas. Columbia Threadneedle is at an inflection point in how it uses AI across its commercial engine. We have the infrastructure, the CRM and commercial data, and world-class Sales, Marketing and Distribution teams — what we’re building now is the connective tissue between them: people who can sit with a distribution team, understand the problem they’re trying to solve, and build something that works by the end of the week. This is not a support role. It is not a roadmap role. You will be embedded directly with Sales, Marketing and Distribution teams across North America and EMEA, working on problems that shape how we win and retain clients — and you’ll help drive your solutions from the first conversation to the moment they go live. You show what should ship by testing with users, not by writing decks. The best candidates we’ve spoken to light up when they hear that. If that’s you, read on.

Requirements

Direct experience working alongside Sales, Marketing or Distribution teams in asset management or financial services — commercial technologists, distribution analytics, or sales/marketing enablement backgrounds are strongly preferred.
Enough fluency in how funds are sold, serviced and reported (CRM, campaigns, mandates, flows) to contribute to commercial discussions, not just take requirements from them.
Strong Python skills to drive production-quality code, with genuine AWS engineering depth and a bias for rapid prototyping over perfect specifications.
Hands-on experience building or deploying agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (the ability to become productive in AgentCore quickly is essential), plus modern software practices — CI/CD, version control and API design.
A track record of independently taking ambiguous problems from concept to working solution in fast-moving, loosely defined environments.
The communication skills to operate fluently on the distribution floor and in the engineering team — in the same day — applying security, data-governance and responsible-AI guardrails with appropriate evaluations and human oversight.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with Sales, Marketing and Distribution users to turn ambiguous commercial needs into sharply scoped, high-value problems.
Rapidly prototype and iterate on LLM-enabled tools — spanning CRM intelligence, meeting preparation, campaign and audience analytics, and distribution reporting — grounded in real CRM and commercial data.
Take prototypes from whiteboard to working solution, working largely independently without a detailed specification handed to you.
Integrate solutions with LLM enablement infrastructure (agent runtimes & internal data platforms, CRM and marketing analytics platforms) and ensure outputs meet the security, governance and auditability standards of a regulated environment.
Validate with users through short feedback loops, stopping or redirecting ideas that don’t earn adoption; identify prototypes with production potential and partner with engineering to scale them.