Innovation Strategist

Overall Responsibility:

The AI Strategist is responsible for leading enterprise-wide business process improvement through the strategic implementation of artificial intelligence and automation. This role provides thought leadership and cross-functional support to key departments-Finance, Accounting, Legal, Marketing, IT, and HR and all Business Units-by identifying, designing, and deploying AI workflows that enhance efficiency, reduce manual overhead, and enable data-driven decision-making. The AI Strategist works collaboratively across functions to promote AI adoption and continuously evolve the organization's digital maturity.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Leadership:

• Define and execute an AI and automation strategy aligned with organizational priorities by Extract, Transform, Load principles.
• Partner with executive and departmental leaders to identify high-value AI use cases. CEO and COO will be executive sponsors to this initiative.
• Drive innovation and lead a roadmap for AI capability development across the business and in conjunction with the office of transformation

Functional Support & Process Optimization:

• Conduct workflow assessments and recommend AI-driven improvements in:
• Finance & Accounting: automate reporting, reconciliation, audit prep, and forecasting. Working with Committee and CFO
• Legal: streamline document review, compliance tracking, and legal research. Working with
• Marketing: improve customer targeting, analytics, digital marketing and generative content production. Working with CMO
• IT: enhance IT support, system monitoring, and cybersecurity processes. Incorporating Network architecture of each system.
• Human Resources: automate hiring workflows, onboarding, and employee engagement tracking. Working with new CHRO or CPO
• Business Units: Planning and Design, Constructions Services, Facilities mgmt., enterprise Solutions will be address in further phases
• Redesign business processes to embed intelligent automation and scalable solutions. Documentation on top 5 changes per unit.

Solution Development & Deployment:

• Lead the design and implementation of AI tools using technologies such as LLMs, RPA, NLP, and predictive analytics. Work Further with AWS, MICROSOFT and NVDIA
• Coordinate with IT, data teams, and vendors to integrate AI solutions with core enterprise systems. Work with India Development team as needed.

Governance and Change Management:

• Promote responsible AI use, aligning with data privacy, compliance, and ethical standards.
• Develop and lead adoption initiatives including training, communication, and stakeholder engagement.

Performance Monitoring & Impact Assessment:

• Establish and monitor KPIs to evaluate effectiveness, ROI, and adoption of AI initiatives.
• Refine strategies and tools based on performance outcomes and user feedback.

Team Enablement and Culture:

• Foster a data- and innovation-driven culture across departments. Align principles with PPP Roadmap and initiatives.
• Serve as an internal consultant and AI evangelist, enabling teams to experiment with and scale AI capabilities.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Engage with department heads, project teams, and executive sponsors to ensure alignment and business impact.
• Represent AI strategy in strategic planning sessions and leadership forums.

Innovation:

• Engage with Industry to stay ahead on new platform and solutions to better business processes.
• Create strategic innovation roadmap with CEO, IT, and COO.

Needed Skills:

• Deep understanding of AI technologies and business transformation strategies. Deep understanding of the business workflows
• Strong experience in cross-functional collaboration with departments such as Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing, and IT.
• Excellent analytical, project management, and communication skills.
• Working with others in a fashion of collaboration
• Familiarity with enterprise software and platforms (e.g., ERP, CRM, HRIS, RPA tools, LLM APIs).
• Experience translating business problems into technology solutions.
• Possesses appropriate paperwork to demonstrate legal right to work in United States as a full-time, regular employee.
• Ability to create and maintain productive relationships with employees, clients, and vendors.

Education/Experience Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field (Master's preferred).
• 1-5 years of experience in AI strategy, business process improvement, or digital transformation roles.
• Demonstrated success in leading enterprise AI initiatives across multiple business functions.
• Experience with tools such as, UiPath, Power Automate, Python, or OpenAI/LLM APIs preferred.
• Knowledge of Deltek Vision, Newforma, Paycom, Microsoft Office Suite, and Vena is required to achieve success in this role.

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