Lead AI Strategist

Why This Role Matters

As a Lead AI Strategist you will be the end-to-end owner for our most impactful customer engagements. Partnering with a senior technical lead, you’ll guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and researchers to scope, deliver, and scale AI-native workflows that materially improve how our customers operate. You’ll work directly with executive stakeholders, translate ambiguous problems into clear roadmaps, drive adoption change-management, and hold the team accountable for business outcomes-not just artifacts.

Location: Remote first. Cincinnati, OH; Atlanta, GA, or Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL areas preferred. Remote (U.S.) considered with periodic client travel.

How You'll Contribute

• Own outcomes: Lead complex, high-impact client engagements end-to-end-from discovery and value targeting through launch and scale-up-anchored to business KPIs.
• Shape strategy: Facilitate executive workshops; identify high-leverage use cases; craft AI adoption roadmaps that deliver value in a quarter and compound thereafter.
• Partner with engineering: Work in lockstep with a senior technical lead to define scope, cut clean iterations, and de-risk delivery across data, integration, and security constraints.
• Drive adoption: Orchestrate change-management, training, and communications; design workflows that stick; establish governance, playbooks, and measurement.
• Measure impact: Define success metrics, baselines, and experiment designs; build dashboards and run regular business reviews with client sponsors.
• Communicate crisply: Synthesize complex ideas into clear narratives for C-suite executives and frontline operators; create decision-ready briefs and visuals.
• Uplevel the team: Mentor peers, standardize repeatable approaches (AI Sprints), and contribute to internal methods and reusable components.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 8+ years (or equivalent skill level) in consulting, product, strategy, or program leadership roles delivering technology-enabled change (client-facing required).
• Fluency in generative-AI concepts (LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering).
• Proven ability to lead executive-level stakeholder management, align incentives, and de-risk complex initiatives.
• Strong analytical and product mindset: able to turn messy problems into testable plans, write tight PRDs/briefs, and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Excellent written, verbal, visual communication, and facilitation skills.
• Bias for action: builder mentality, caring more aboutoutcomes than optics.
• Nice to have: domain experience in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare/pharma, or financial services; familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance practices.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance upside.
• Comprehensive benefits
• Remote work
• PTO
• Final package depends on experience and location.

Who We Are, What We Stand For

Very Big Things is a generative-AI consulting and implementation partner. We combine forward-deployed engineers, product strategists, and researchers to ship bespoke AI systems that deliver measurable ROI for mid-market and enterprise clients. We’re AI-native: we build, use, and continuously improve our own workflow tooling (e.g., AI Sprints across R&D → Production) to move from idea to business impact fast.

• We are remote-friendly with an East-coast heartbeat; client-onsite time varies by engagement.
• We optimize for skill, signal, and values over pedigree. Expect a fast process: intro → working session (realistic client scenario) → panel → references.
• We focus on mid-market and enterprise clients.
• We value curiosity, proactive learning, and ownership. If you’re a thoughtful builder who likes turning ambiguity into impact, you’ll fit right in.

Legal disclaimer

VBT is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all teammates.