Strategic Delivery Lead (AI)

TL;DR

Strategic Delivery Lead (AI): Defining how hirify.global orchestrates complex, multi‑workstream customer programs end‑to‑end with an accent on translating executive‑level business outcomes into a delivery roadmap and running day‑to‑day execution. Focus on aligning stakeholders, managing risk/change control, and making the trade‑offs that protect the critical path.

Location: Based in San Francisco. Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance offered. Requires 25-50% travel.

Salary: $234K – $325K + Offers Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Own strategic delivery for complex, multi‑track programs and act as the single accountable DRI overseeing program success.
• Run day‑to‑day program execution, sequence and unblock work across teams, and operate robust program management processes.
• Protect the critical path by identifying delivery risks early and work cross-functionally to mitigate blockers and maintain program velocity.
• Own executive communication and alignment, set the narrative, run SteerCos and decision-ready readouts, and surface risks early.
• Engage pre‑close to de‑risk delivery, co‑lead discovery, shape scope and commercials, and design the delivery plan and acceptance criteria.
• Drive adoption and change management, embed with customer stakeholders to map workflows, land production deployments, and ensure onboarding, training, and operating models support sustained use.

Requirements

• 10+ years leading multi-workstream technical programs and 5+ years steering C-suite governance in a consulting role or a comparable leadership position in a technology company.
• Comfortable leading engineers, researchers, product, and partnerships; you create crisp roles, decision paths, and interfaces that keep pace high and blockers few.
• Bring structure to ambiguity, quickly untangle complexity, apply logical framing, and communicate options clearly.
• Understand core LLM solution patterns and integration fundamentals and use that fluency to pressure-test architectures and plans.
• Translate between business and technical, you can make complex work legible to non‑technical executives and convert strategy into day‑to‑day execution plans for technical teams.
• Willing to spend meaningful time on-site with customers (often 25–50%, sometimes higher) to unblock decisions, build trust, and accelerate adoption.

Culture & Benefits

• AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.