AI & Industrial Transformation Lead (AI)

Location: Paris, France; on-site client presence required

Salary: €100,000–€125,000 annual package, including fixed and variable compensation, plus BSPCE.

Company

hirify.global builds and invests in AI and B2B SaaS companies for blue-collar industries including manufacturing, construction, and logistics, working directly inside factories and operational environments.

What you will do

• Audit customer business and operations digital maturity, then design transformation visions and roadmaps.
• Own end-to-end deployments of portfolio AI solutions, including scoping, integration, change management, go-live, and measurement.
• Work with production supervisors on the shop floor and COOs, CIOs, CISOs, and plant GMs in steering committees.
• Adapt startup products to OT/IT constraints, legacy MES, union dynamics, and shop-floor resistance.
• Turn deployments into replicable use cases and shape portfolio product roadmaps based on field insight.
• Scale transformation work across Paris, Boston, and other partner locations.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of experience at MBB, Roland Berger, Oliver Wyman, Kearney, or Accenture Strategy.
• Strongly preferred engineering background and comfort with industrial systems, including MES, OT/IT, and production data.
• Experience leading at least two full industrial engagements with real shop-floor exposure.
• Experience steering committees with COOs, CISOs, and plant GMs.
• Ability to move between executive-level discussions and hands-on shop-floor work.
• Experience with industrial AI or data such as computer vision, predictive maintenance, MES analytics, or digital twins.
• Experience acting as a sparring partner to a founder or COO.
• Ability to communicate results through operational metrics such as uptime, FTP, OEE, and ramp-up time.

Nice to have

• Understanding of startup product cycles and industrial SaaS constraints.
• Ability to identify scalable patterns versus one-off solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time CDI employment with a fixed and variable compensation structure.
• BSPCE with a transparent structure.
• Career path toward OSS Partner within 3–5 years, founder of a studio venture, or COO in a portfolio company.
• Direct access to European, Asian, and US industrial decision-makers and ownership of a professional network.
• High autonomy, hands-on factory work, measurable impact, and a sub-50-person organization focused on building, investing, scaling, and transforming portfolio companies.
• Work is embedded with industrial partners rather than remote; success is measured through tangible operational results.