Senior AI Strategist

KUNGFU.AI • Austin, TX

106d • Remote

About The Position

KUNGFU.AI is a management consulting and engineering firm focused exclusively on artificial intelligence. We empower CEOs and senior executives to leverage the full potential of AI so they remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world. Our expert team delivers AI strategy and bespoke production-grade solutions that allow clients to rapidly realize value. We stand apart because we implement our AI strategies into production quickly, safely, and responsibly. At KFAI, Strategy is about helping our clients to navigate the unique and unprecedented challenges associated with integrating AI/ML approaches into their organizations, and ultimately to identify and leverage AI/ML capabilities as a sustainable differentiator or competitive advantage. As a Strategist at KFAI, you will be part of a uniquely business-value driven approach to helping our clients accelerate and de-risk their efforts to advance their AI capabilities and use cases. Your primary toolset will be creative quantitative and competitive analysis of clients’ AI imperative executed alongside direct observation, discovery and assessment of clients’ relevant organizational capabilities.

Requirements

• Someone who can independently conduct SME interviews across a wide diversity of backgrounds and functions, quickly isolating core stakeholder, organizational and engagement dynamics that could affect the validity and/or feasibility of our recommendations
• Someone who can confidently and credibly hold a mirror up to a client, showing them things they are often not aware of and may be reluctant to admit
• Someone who can apply a product management and/or design thinking mindset to organizing client recommendations and roadmaps
• Someone who can collaborate seamlessly with some of the brightest engineers on the planet on engagements that require strategic alignment of engineering activities to ensure maximal client impact
• A people person. Someone whose emotional intelligence and ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences (C-suite to IC, technical and non-technical) in a wide range of scenarios is a proven strength
• Strong skills in business quantitative analysis including how business data is operationally originated and curated, used to generate financial reporting, capable of telling ‘stories’ about how organizations function, applied to compelling business cases supporting corporate valuation
• An interest in working collaboratively with data scientists on the Strategy Team to conduct exploratory data analysis and formulate and test specific hypotheses
• A basic fluency in data as it is applied in AI modeling. You have some understanding of different data types, what data governance is and why it’s important, what a machine learning model is and how it’s trained, etc.
• An interest in ethical AI is a must, but you don’t need to have experience in it
• An appreciation of autonomy, research, people, and technology. This role is very interdisciplinary
• Someone who probably has an advanced degree in a human-centric discipline (Business, Social Anthropology, Psychology, etc.), but it’s not a dealbreaker if you don’t
• US Citizens and Green Card Holders only due to ITAR compliance and regulations

Responsibilities

• Tight articulation and quantifiable specification of the challenges and/or opportunities they hope to address through the application of AI/ML
• Insider-level understanding of the nature of their business - from operational realities to legacy product roadmaps - acquired quickly and arrayed against a necessary grasp of the clients’ external strategic landscape
• Fresh insights into the organizational, leadership, cultural, structural, and process realities that define the context in which our solutions must succeed
• Evaluation of a client’s organizational assets - current and potential - based on a deep understanding of their full data assets and ecosystem (internal and external) as well as their core and differentiating core competencies
• Tightly specified and actionable recommendations - implicating all of the above - that promise to advance their successful application of AI/ML, including assessments of feasibility and potential impact and options for roadmapping activities several years into the future

Benefits

• competitive salary
• company stock grant
• top (‘gold’) level of health, dental and vision insurance (KUNGFU.AI covers 100% of your premiums and 50% for any dependents)
• health and dependent flexible spending accounts
• short- and long-term disability insurance
• unlimited vacation (that you're encouraged to take)
• paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees