Distyl · 5 months ago
AI Strategist (Lead Level)
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
10+ years expDistyl is a company focused on transforming customer engagement through AI strategies. As an AI Strategist Lead, you will oversee a multidisciplinary team to deliver enterprise-scale outcomes and drive measurable business impact for Fortune 500 clients.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Executive Engagement: Build trust with senior stakeholders, including C-suite and VP-level sponsors. Align on business priorities and act as a strategic thought partner
End-to-End Ownership: Lead customer engagements from initial scoping to sustained value delivery. Define success, design the roadmap, and measurable outcomes
AI Strategy & Value Discovery: Identify the most valuable problems to solve and aligning solutions to ROI
Team Leadership: Jointly lead teams of 10+ engineers, researchers, AI Strategists and program managers. Set clear goals, foster a high-performing team culture, and manage cross-functional execution
Enterprise-Grade Delivery: Ensure technical solutions meet performance, compliance, and scalability standards. Navigate complex enterprise environments and drive cross-functional dependencies to deliver deeply integrated solutions
Change Management & Adoption: Drive onboarding, user adoption, and change management to ensure systems are embedded into daily workflows
Platform Influence: Represent the customer’s voice to the Platform team. Surface insights and themes that inform platform development
Qualification
Required
Enterprise-Scale Delivery Experience: A track record of successfully leading large, complex high-budget customer engagements or transformation programs ($10M+) ideally involving AI. Most successful candidates will have at least 10 years of experience working with enterprise customers
People Leadership: Track record of leading cross-functional teams and mentoring others. You foster clarity, motivation, and accountability at scale
Enterprise Scale Delivery: Demonstrated experience delivering mission-critical solutions for organizations with significant scale, complexity, and regulatory considerations
Executive Communication: Comfortable presenting to C-level stakeholders and translating between technical and non-technical audiences
Strategic Leadership: Ability to frame high-level business challenges, guide strategic decision-making, and influence senior executives
Customer-Centric Mindset: Deep empathy for users and the ability to identify solutions that create tangible, lasting business impact
Technical Acumen: Proficiency in programming or data analysis tools (e.g., Python, R, SQL) and a solid understanding of AI/ML concepts
Passion for AI: You believe in AI's transformative potential and want to help shape how it's applied responsibly and effectively in the enterprise
Bias for Action: You're comfortable with ambiguity, eager to take ownership, and capable of turning vision into structured execution
Travel: Flexibility to travel 25–75% depending on engagement needs
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package, including equity options, medical/dental/vision covered at 100% for you and your dependents, 401K plan, and perks such as commuter benefits and lunch provided in office.
Company
Distyl
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Distyl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (7)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$202MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners
2025-09-22Series B· $175M
2024-09-24Series A· $20M
2023-04-13Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Arjun Prakash
Co-Founder, CEO
Derek Ho
Co-Founder, COO
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