Director, Strategy & Operations (AI)

Location: Chicago, United States; hybrid

Salary: $150,000–$220,000 annual base salary for roles performed from California; compensation may vary for Colorado, Illinois, and New York.

Company

hirify.global develops a proprietary precision-medicine platform that connects real-world evidence with AI-driven insights for clinical care and life-sciences customers.

What you will do

• Drive go-to-market strategy and end-to-end launches for new data and software offerings.
• Build a sales training and enablement function, including onboarding, curricula, playbooks, and persona-based positioning.
• Design scalable commercial operating infrastructure, including tools, AI-powered dashboards, metrics, and operating cadences.
• Lead the transformation toward use-case- and persona-led field execution across buyer groups such as Medical Affairs and Clinical Development.
• Coach solution-oriented selling focused on customer problems, strategic assets, and tailored client solutions.
• Identify sales-cycle bottlenecks and implement operational improvements to accelerate deal velocity and shorten proposal-to-close timelines.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in commercial strategy, sales operations, enablement, revenue operations, or chief-of-staff roles.
• Track record of building repeatable commercial systems, including enablement, go-to-market launches, or sales operations infrastructure.
• Experience aligning marketing, pricing, sales, and data stakeholders without formal authority.
• Ability to move between executive-level strategy and detailed field execution.
• Analytical rigor and familiarity with commercial tools, dashboards, and sales pipeline analytics.
• Structured, self-directed approach to driving outcomes in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, health tech, or data-focused SaaS.
• Experience applying AI tools or automated workflows to sales and commercial operations.
• Familiarity with real-world data in life sciences or clinical research.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership, high-visibility role with broad cross-functional influence.
• Work in a precision-medicine and healthcare technology environment.
• Benefits may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other employee benefits.
• Equal opportunity employment with consideration for qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.