Perficient · 1 month ago
AI Data Strategist - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $221K/yr
8+ years expPerficient is a global AI-first consultancy that partners with innovative enterprises to deliver AI solutions. The AI Data Strategist will lead ideation and planning in a structured AI innovation environment, working cross-functionally to identify opportunities and guide prototypes through to operationalization.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyInternetMarketing
Responsibilities
Lead intake and ideation sessions to identify AI opportunities across departments, using structured frameworks and AI-powered assistants
Frame problems and define use cases aligned with strategic goals, regulatory drivers, and operational pain points
Conceive and define AI-Driven business solutions, experiences, and use cases
Scope and plan prototypes and pilots using accelerated modeling and innovation frameworks, ensuring feasibility, desirability, and viability
Collaborate with AI Engineers, Product Owners, Cloud Architects, and SMEs to ensure technical feasibility and business alignment
Facilitate design thinking workshops to guide teams through empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test phases
Support stakeholder demos to validate and refine solution concepts
Prioritize initiatives using ICE scoring (Impact, Confidence, Ease) and business value mapping
Develop use case portfolios, product backlogs, and roadmaps for AI-driven solutions
Define success metrics and KPIs, for example velocity gain, cost reduction, and adoption rates
Ensure alignment to responsible AI and governance standards
Ensure knowledge capture and best practice sharing across experiments to reduce duplication and accelerate learning
Business case development and outcome measurement for pilots
Maintain alignment with compliance, regulatory, and audit requirements throughout the AI lifecycle
Qualification
Required
Candidates must bring deep domain knowledge in at least one of the following industries or functions as a foundation for this role: Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Automotive, Communications / Media / Technology, Sales and Marketing, Finance and Accounting, Supply Chain
AI Platforms: WRITER, Salesforce, Pega
AI Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, N8N, Haystack, AgentSpace
Cloud Platforms: Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI
Collaboration & Design: Miro, Confluence, SharePoint, Adobe Firefly
Data & Storage: Postgres, Supabase, Pinecone, FAISS
Prompt Engineering & Governance: Portkey, Model-Context Protocol (MCP)
Project Management: JIRA, GitHub
Preferred
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or related field
8+ years in digital transformation roles
Proven experience delivering AI initiatives in regulated industries
Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, agentic workflows, and experimentation methodologies
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Experience with facilitation, requirements elicitation, design thinking, agile delivery, and outcome measurement
Experience with business process modeling, user journey mapping, and value stream analysis
Company
Perficient
Perficient is an IT consulting firm that helps companies adapt their systems to third party software products that use internet.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65.3M2024-05-05Acquired
2024-01-17Post Ipo Equity· $4.44M
2022-10-17Post Ipo Equity· $5.18M
Leadership Team
Ed Hofffman
Senior Vice President, North America Business Operations
Hari Madamalla
Vice President
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