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AI Strategist

Distyl · San Francisco · Remote

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About Distyl

Architecting the AI-Native Enterprise. Distyl partners with the most ambitious enterprises to design and operationalize their AI transformations. Backed by Khosla, Lightspeed and Peak XV.

About the role

Earn Customer Trust: Demonstrate customer empathy and be the face of Distyl, managing relationships from end-users to executive stakeholders End-to-end Workflow & Outcome Ownership: Identify the most valuable problems to solve. Embed yourself in the customer's workflow to understand it better than the users themselves. Ensure high accuracy and reliability to achieve the desired outcomes. Take ownership and accountability for the success of the customer engagement

What they're looking for

  • This role requires a curious and analytical approach, the ability to identify valuable problems to solve, strong intuition for product development, and a deep commitment to customer success
  • Operational Experience: A proven record in managing complex projects or strategic leadership roles, with demonstrable experience in client-facing positions within AI or technology integration
  • Exceptional Communication Skills: Capable of earning customer trust and liaising effectively between clients and internal teams
  • User Empathy and Customer Focus: A deep sense of user empathy and a customer-obsessed approach, ensuring solutions are technically sound and aligned with customer needs
  • Thrive in Ambiguity: Ability to identify critical problems in complex situations, define outcomes, and create structure among competing priorities
  • AI Passion: A passion for AI and optimism about its potential to impact the world
More about this role

Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.

We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.

Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s.

As an AI Strategist, you will be the project lead for customer engagements. In collaboration with a technical lead, you’ll drive a motivated team of engineers and researchers focused on solving our customers' most critical problems. Your...

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