Forward Deployed Strategist - R01572124

Brillio•New York, NY

5d•$170,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Brillio is seeking an experienced business transformation and product leader to serve as a Forward Deployed Strategist. The role embeds directly within a complex business domain to understand its operations, identify high-value problems, and lead cross-functional teams from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and measurable value realization. The Forward Deployed Strategist works at the intersection of business strategy, process design, product, technology, data, organizational change, and executive decision-making. Rather than ending with recommendations or focusing primarily on project coordination, the role stays accountable to the problem: shaping the future state, working with solution builders, driving decisions and adoption, and using evidence to determine whether solutions should scale, change, transfer, pause, or stop. Preferred locations are Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City. The stated salary range is $170,000–$230,000 per year.

Requirements

Typically 10+ years of relevant experience in strategy, consulting, healthcare transformation, product or capability strategy, operations leadership, technology strategy, or a related field.
Demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional change from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and measurable results.
Ability to learn a complex operating model quickly, synthesize input from frontline experts, and build sufficient domain depth to make sound decisions.
Experience shaping products, capabilities, workflows, processes, or operating-model changes using user needs, outcomes, roadmaps, priorities, and tradeoffs.
Strong business judgment, including assessing value, feasibility, risk, strategic fit, and investment choices when information is incomplete.
Executive-level written and verbal communication, facilitation, storytelling, and stakeholder influence without direct authority.
Technical fluency across AI, automation, data, software delivery, integration, and enterprise technology sufficient to work directly with engineering teams and challenge assumptions.
Experience establishing business cases, baselines, success measures, and value-realization plans.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, move from analysis to action, and maintain personal accountability for outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, health services, insurance, regulated operations, or another complex enterprise environment.
Background in management consulting, product leadership, digital transformation, enterprise operations, or technology-enabled business transformation.
Hands-on experience shaping AI-enabled or data-driven products and workflows, with appropriate consideration for governance, risk, and operating controls.
Experience working in multidisciplinary pods or product teams spanning business, engineering, data, architecture, operations, and subject-matter experts.
Experience leading proofs of value, pilots, MVPs, or capability launches and using evidence to make scale-or-stop decisions.

Responsibilities

Understand business models, workflows, user needs, constraints, and pain points to identify and define underlying business problems.
Identify opportunities to simplify, redesign, automate, or improve workflows and business processes.
Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear problem statements, solution concepts, priorities, and actionable plans.
Define desired outcomes, scope, success metrics, and roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business objectives.
Evaluate and apply AI, automation, and emerging technologies to deliver measurable business value.
Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, data, architecture, operations, compliance, finance, and business teams.
Drive execution by managing priorities, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and key decisions throughout delivery.
Partner with technical teams on data, integrations, governance, security, scalability, cost, and production requirements.
Guide solutions from design and development through deployment, adoption, and integration into business operations.
Engage stakeholders and end users to gather feedback, improve workflows, and drive organizational change and sustained adoption.
Establish ownership, operating processes, and performance measures to ensure lasting value.
Track KPIs, business impact, costs, and post-deployment outcomes to identify improvement opportunities.
Communicate results, risks, and lessons learned, and make evidence-based recommendations to scale, refine, pause, or discontinue initiatives.
Maintain end-to-end accountability from initial discovery through delivery, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.