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Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day. \nBorn from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.\nOver the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.\nAbout the Role:\nAs an AI Strategist, you are the embedded AI leader for our customers. You connect what customers are saying in their conversations, what their business needs most, and what Cresta's AI can do, then turn that into a prioritized plan and measurable results. You identify where automation and augmentation will deliver the most value, build the roadmap, and make sure the work ships and pays off.\nYou will not be building AI Agents from scratch. Our Forward Deployed Engineers and Forward Deployed Product Managers create and deploy them. Your focus is on making deployed AI better: finding the next opportunity, optimizing what is already live, piloting new Cresta capabilities, and proving the business impact. You are analytical, commercially minded, and credible with senior stakeholders in CX, Operations, Product, Sales, and IT. You are technical enough to work closely with FDEs and FDPMs and to give product and engineering a tight feedback loop.\nWhat You'll Do:\nAI Strategy and Roadmap\nIdentify automation and augmentation opportunities across the customer's contact center and wider customer experience operation.\nPrioritize initiatives by expected ROI and build a business case for each one.\nBuild and maintain the customer's enterprise AI roadmap, and keep it current as priorities and Cresta capabilities change.\nAlign stakeholders across CX, Operations, Product, Sales, and IT on priorities, sequencing, and success criteria.\nConversation Intelligence and Business Insights\nUse conversation data to surface customer friction and emerging trends before they show up in other metrics.\nIdentify operational inefficiencies and the changes that would reduce them.\nShare Voice of Customer insights with customer leadership and with Cresta product teams.\nMeasure business impact and report it in terms executives care about, such as containment, handle time, conversion, CSAT, and cost to serve.\nAI Innovation and Execution\nStay current on new Cresta features and bring the relevant ones to customers early.\nPilot emerging AI capabilities, define how success will be judged, and decide with the customer whether to scale them.\nOptimize live AI Agents by analyzing performance, reviewing conversations, and recommending changes to prompts, workflows, and configurations.\nCoordinate deployments with FDEs, FDPMs, and customer teams, including milestones, timelines, and dependencies.\nMeasure realized value after launch and report it back against the original business case.\nWhat We're Looking For:\nExperience: 5+ years in technology consulting, strategy, product, analytics, implementation, or customer success roles, ideally with AI or LLM-first products.\nStrategic and commercial skills: A track record of building roadmaps, prioritizing by ROI, and writing business cases that senior stakeholders approve.\nAnalytical approach: Strong data skills. You are comfortable analyzing conversation or operational data, designing experiments such as A/B tests, and monitoring performance to refine solutions.\nTechnical understanding: Working knowledge of how LLM-based AI agents function, including prompts, tools or function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation. Hands-on experience with an agent project, even a personal one, is a plus. You do not need to write production code, but you can read and reason about system behavior and discuss tradeoffs with engineers.\nStakeholder leadership: Experience leading cross-functional work and influencing senior customer stakeholders across CX, Operations, Product, Sales, and IT.\nCommunication: Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills. You can explain a complex finding to an executive in plain language.\nExecution: Strong project management skills and a bias for action. You turn ambiguity into a plan and follow it through to results.\nMindset: Curious, self-driven, and comfortable learning quickly in a fast-moving startup environment. You are passionate about AI, automation, and the future of customer experience.\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nBonus Points:\nFamiliarity with customer support and contact center operations, including metrics such as AHT, FCR, containment, and QA\nExperience with conversation intelligence, speech analytics, or voice-of-customer programs\nBackground in management consulting, product management, or forward deployed roles\nExperience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment\nComfort with SQL or a BI tool for self-serve analysis\nPerks & Benefits:\nWe offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family\nFlexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it\nPaid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child\nRetirement savings plan to help you plan for the future\nRemote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office\nMonthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced\nIn-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees\nCompensation at Cresta:\nCresta's approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.\nThe posted compensation range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.\nOTE Range: $150,000 to $200,000 + Offers Equity \nOur use of AI in recruiting: We may use AI tools in our recruiting process, which require human review and oversight. If you have questions about our use of AI or wish to opt out, please contact  (if you are opting out, please use the subject ‘Opt-Out’ in your email).\n\nRecording & AI transcription: We do not authorize candidates to record or use AI transcription of any interview by phone, notetaker app, AI glasses, or other device. Candidates may request an exception or accommodation for review during the interview process as needed.\n\nRecruiting impersonation scams: We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. 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