AI Enablement Lead – Research & Innovation

Escalent; United States; Remote; USD 70.000 - 88.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Escalent is seeking an experienced Strategy Research & AI Innovation professional to join its AI and Innovation Hub, driving operational AI integration across research, consulting, and corporate workflows. The role focuses on developing in-house monetizable AI products and scalable AI-enabled processes that improve efficiency and insights delivery.

The ideal candidate blends strategy research, workflow/product development, and hands-on AI tooling with a consultative, impact-oriented mindset,

Qualifikationen

• 5-7 years in delivering Market Research & Insights engagements across industries, focused on international markets.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must Have: hands-on experience with AI and innovative tools + ability to quickly ramp-up on new ones.
• Big Plus: experience with low-code/no-code/vibe-code agent development and working with tech/development/product teams.
• Solid experience leading project-based engagements and delivering findings to client and internal stakeholders.
• Strong exposure to internal process innovation/automation.
• Some experience in cross-functional, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Collaborative leader with strong interpersonal skills, comfortable coaching and reviewing the work of junior colleagues
• Logical and creative thinker with astute analytical aptitude
• Consultative approach to problem solving
• Strong attention to detail
• Travel: Minimal, based on project needs

Aufgaben

• Develop a strong understanding of Escalent group's products, tools, solutions, and technological roadmap and use as context for AI initiatives related to company workflows and products.
• Demonstrate a strong capability to link findings and recommendations to desired business impact.
• Present findings and recommendations, while explaining approach and rationale, to various business teams as and when needed.
• Contribute to Escalent's ongoing and ever-expanding AI upskilling initiatives by conceptualizing ideas, developing collateral, and administering sessions.
• Organize and administer demos, show-n-tells, and lunch-n-learns among internal/external audiences to socialize the product/feature/agent, resolve queries, foster adoption, and gather constructive and actionable feedback.
• Exhibit a strong passion for AI and innovation, and stay updated on the latest developments, trends, product/model launches, etc. and their plausible impact on Escalent's AI strategy /approach/roadmap.
• Address internal queries on AI, innovation, and automation tools/techniques/approaches to ensure teams know when (and when not) to use AI, how to use it effectively + efficiently + ethically, which tool/feature/product/agent to leverage, and where to avoid pitfalls.
• 3P Toolkit Due Diligence and Expansion: Identify relevant AI/innovation tools for any use case, via desk research and internal outreach.
• 3P Toolkit Due Diligence and Expansion: Liaise with various tool vendors to understand functional possibilities, evaluate use case fitment, and assess commercial viability.
• 3P Toolkit Due Diligence and Expansion: Partner with Compliance and IT teams to vet and whitelist specific tools for test/trials.
• 3P Toolkit Due Diligence and Expansion: Conceptualize a trial program and secure licenses for testing.
• 3P Toolkit Due Diligence and Expansion: Partner with domain/functional/corporate teams to test various tools to assess their effectiveness and value-add.
• Internal and SharePoint Documentation: Prepare, maintain, and improve documents on AI-related processes, guidelines, and protocols.
• Internal and SharePoint Documentation: Author self-learn collateral on the in-house and approved 3P tool mix, such as tool one-pagers, tool usage decision flowcharts, SharePoint pages and content, etc.

Kenntnisse

Market Research & Insights

International markets experience

AI & innovative tools experience

Low-code/no-code agent development

Project leadership

Process innovation / automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & presentation

Analytical thinking

Consultative problem solving

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Low-code/no-code tools

Jobbeschreibung

Escalent is seeking an experienced Strategy Research & AI Innovation professional to join its AI and Innovation Hub, driving operational AI integration across research, consulting, and corporate workflows. The role focuses on developing in-house monetizable AI products and scalable AI-enabled processes that improve efficiency and insights delivery.

The ideal candidate blends strategy research, workflow/product development, and hands-on AI tooling with a consultative, impact-oriented mindset,