Forward-Deployed Strategist (AI)

Location: Greater San Francisco Area; must be based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area for in-office collaboration. Travel up to approximately 25% may be required.

Salary: $145,000–$225,000 per year + equity and health benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise SaaS company that helps organizations identify, measure, and accelerate the business value of their AI investments through economics, AI, data science, and the Nucleus platform.

What you will do

• Engage with customers to understand strategic goals, operational challenges, data landscapes, critical workflows, and data sources driving AI adoption.
• Build quantified business cases that connect hirify.global insights to measurable customer outcomes and executive decisions.
• Lead customer workstreams with Engineering and Product to design and deploy scalable, customized software-led solutions.
• Run customer onboarding and enablement sessions for the hirify.global Nucleus platform and present data-driven recommendations to executive stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, run SteerCo meetings, manage agendas, document decisions, and maintain project alignment.
• Identify product feedback, new engagements, expansion opportunities, and ways to increase customer value and ACV.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in client-facing strategy, consulting, SaaS customer-facing, customer success, implementation, professional services, or similar roles, including coordination of Engineering and Data Science teams.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in complex B2B enterprise environments.
• Experience building quantified business cases, or the ability to learn this quickly, and translating insights into actions for finance and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate complex data ecosystems, perform ad-hoc data analysis, think quantitatively, and translate findings into credible customer insights; SQL or Python practice is not required.
• Experience developing novel, software-led solutions that drive business outcomes for enterprise customers.
• Track record of driving adoption and behavior change with stakeholders without formal management authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication across technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to travel up to approximately 25% as required by client and business needs.
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area for in-office collaboration.

Nice to have

• Working SQL proficiency.
• Experience in an early-stage, high-growth SaaS environment.
• Experience building or scaling internal processes from scratch in an ambiguous organization.
• Experience working with SaaS sales teams and recognizing expansion opportunities.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with equity and health benefits.
• High-trust, high-autonomy work environment.
• Opportunity to help build the company, culture, and products from the ground up.
• Healthy working practices and an environment committed to mutual respect and equal employment opportunity.
• Opportunity to collaborate with researchers and leaders in AI and the digital economy.

Hiring process

• Success expectations are defined across the first 30, 60, and 90 days, progressing from product and methodology ramp-up to independently managing customer accounts.
• By 90 days, the role is expected to identify and deploy novel solutions and participate in expansion and renewal conversations.