Lead AI Consultant

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

📋 Description

• Lead the process of client discovery and pre-sales activities by identifying AI opportunities, structuring business challenges, defining the scope of AI projects, and developing solution strategies.

• Take ownership or make significant contributions to proposals, discovery workshops, business cases, solution concepts, and statements of work.

• Convert business objectives into data, AI, and GenAI strategies, ensuring that analytics, automation, and model development are connected to measurable business outcomes.

• Provide advice to senior stakeholders regarding technology and architecture decisions, weighing feasibility, cost, risk, security, compliance, scalability, and anticipated business results.

• Question existing assumptions and suggest the most suitable AI approach for the client’s context, including scenarios where AI may not be the ideal solution.

• Act as a bridge between business, technical, delivery, and leadership teams to ensure effective communication and alignment across various disciplines.

• Oversee AI project delivery from a consulting perspective, ensuring quality of execution, alignment with stakeholders, business impact, and realization of value.

• Collaborate in creating the strategy, vision, standards, and roadmap for Spyrosoft’s AI Consulting offerings.

• Mentor consultants, engineers, and other team members in AI consulting methodologies, discovery techniques, solution framing, and communication with stakeholders.

• Clearly articulate AI insights and recommendations to executive, business, and technical audiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive background in IT, data, AI/ML, analytics, or digital transformation, with significant experience in AI-focused and consulting roles.

• Proven success in shaping and delivering AI, ML, data, or GenAI initiatives that have generated measurable business value.

• Strong background in client-facing consulting, pre-sales, solution design, discovery, business case development, or advisory roles.

• Skilled in leading intricate client discussions with senior stakeholders and translating vague business challenges into actionable AI strategies.

• In-depth knowledge of Generative AI and LLM-based solution patterns, including RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, guardrails, prompt engineering, observability, and considerations for responsible AI.

• Solid technical credibility in AI/ML, including a practical understanding of Python, ML/DL libraries, model lifecycle, MLOps, and cloud-based AI platforms.

• Familiarity with tools and platforms such as Jupyter, MLflow, Azure ML, Vertex AI, Amazon SageMaker, Databricks, or similar technologies.

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud platforms, preferably Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, with the ability to evaluate solution trade-offs regarding architecture, cost, scalability, security, and operational complexity.

• Strong grasp of MLOps best practices, including CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, monitoring, observability, and maintenance.

• Strategic and analytical mindset, capable of structuring complex issues, defending recommendations, and guiding stakeholders through trade-offs.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify technical complexities into clear business language.

• Strong relationship management abilities and confidence in engaging with senior client stakeholders.

• Innovative and proactive in identifying opportunities, solving problems, and enhancing consulting practices.

• Fluent in English, with C1 preferred.

• Willingness to travel for client engagements as necessary, up to 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• No specific benefits, perks, or compensation extras are stated in the posting.