Director of AI Strategy (AI)

TL;DR

Director of AI Strategy (AI): Own end-to-end AI transformation for a portfolio of 5–10 B2B clients as fractional senior AI leader, managing strategy, execution, cross-functional pod, and P&L accountability. Focus on defining AI roadmaps, translating business problems into technical solutions, driving client retention and expansion, and delivering measurable ROI across complex organizations.

In office (San Diego)

$120,000 – $150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is an AI strategy and integration firm partnering with B2B companies to transform workflows and deliver measurable outcomes at the intersection of strategy, engineering, and adoption.

What you will do

• Lead AI strategy and transformation for 5–10 clients: define roadmaps, conduct discovery sessions, prioritize opportunities, and navigate change management.
• Own client relationships: serve as primary C-suite advisor, run executive reviews, drive satisfaction, retention, and expansion sales cycles.
• Lead a cross-functional pod of ~5 AI strategists, engineers, and specialists: coach team, allocate resources, set priorities across engagements.
• Oversee end-to-end project delivery: design solutions, manage implementation, adoption, and optimization using ClickUp.
• Manage pod P&L: track revenue, utilization, profitability, and hit growth targets.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years in client-facing businesses or agencies, managing multiple relationships and driving outcomes.
• Experience leading AI/digital transformations with proven business results (revenue, costs, processes).
• Strong people leadership: built and coached technical teams without micromanaging.
• P&L accountability experience: utilization, margin, revenue growth.
• Deep AI/ML/LLM/automation knowledge to translate tech to business value for executives.
• Exceptional organization and executive communication for complex, concurrent engagements.

Nice to have

• Experience as fractional/embedded strategic leader in client organizations.
• Track record growing accounts beyond retention.
• Domain expertise in financial services, real estate, private equity, lending, or B2B SaaS.
• Led mixed strategist-engineer teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Real ownership of book of business, strategy, delivery, team, and P&L.
• High-impact AI work changing client operations, with direct results visibility.
• AI-native culture using AI internally, obsessed team members.
• Access to frontier AI via Anthropic, OpenAI, YC partnerships.
• Bootstrapped, profitable growth with upside sharing for early team.
• No bureaucracy: small pods, clear accountability, best ideas win.