Applied AI Strategist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Assist clients in transforming intricate business challenges into AI-driven solutions that yield measurable benefits.

• Oversee projects from defining the problem to shaping solutions, delivering results, ensuring adoption, and realizing value.

• Comprehend the client's goals, operational context, stakeholders, data, technology, and limitations.

• Conduct interviews, workshops, and analyses to clarify ambiguous business issues and prioritize use cases.

• Develop value propositions, establish success metrics, and evaluate the value of interventions.

• Design solution concepts, actionable roadmaps, delivery plans, and proposals.

• Assemble and lead multidisciplinary teams comprising data scientists, optimization experts, engineers, designers, and product managers.

• Navigate trade-offs among value, speed, scope, cost, risk, and technical quality.

• Facilitate communication between executive, operational, product, and technical stakeholders.

• Take ownership of product considerations across desirability, viability, feasibility, usability, and value.

• Plan for rollout, transfer knowledge, measure benefits, and iterate post-implementation.

• Cultivate client relationships, identify additional value, and develop reusable methods, propositions, and products.

• Support cohesive delivery teams, fostering continuous improvement and psychological safety.

• Mentor, coach, and assist other members of the Satalia team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in shaping and leading technology-driven change, working independently with senior stakeholders.

• Proven track record of moving technology initiatives from strategy to implementation, adoption, or operation.

• Familiarity with machine learning, generative AI, optimization, and agentic systems.

• Demonstrated high agency and capability to generate momentum without complete information or formal authority.

• Proficient in solving unfamiliar problems, breaking down complexity, testing assumptions, and identifying practical solutions.

• Commercial acumen linking effort to value and reasoning about ROI, scope, risk, and intervention value.

• Ability to influence without formal authority and align stakeholders across different organizational levels.

• Experience in leading multidisciplinary technical teams through challenging delivery trade-offs.

• Comfortable collaborating with data scientists, optimization specialists, and engineers.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present to boards and critically evaluate solution designs.

• Product-oriented thinking and pragmatism in balancing ambition with client data, systems, capabilities, budgets, and readiness for change.

• A mindset geared towards learning and the capacity to quickly adapt to new domains.

• A technical degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field (preferred).

• Expertise in a specific sector or discipline such as creative and marketing, retail, supply chain, financial services, optimization, simulation, or agentic systems (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual development budget for personal skill enhancement.

• Annual bonus - when Satalia succeeds, we all benefit.

• Option for remote work - available within the UK.

• Engaging projects focused on delivering meaningful social and environmental change.

• People-centric culture - prioritizing well-being and kindness.

• Truly flexible working hours - accommodating school pickups, volunteering, gym, and more.

• Generous leave policy - 27 days of holiday in addition to bank holidays and enhanced family leave.

• Transparent and open culture - your voice will be valued and heard.