AI Strategist

Linkt; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity/bonus structure

Health benefits

Tooling budget

Job summary

Linkt is seeking an AI Strategist in Austin, TX to align strategic AI opportunities with client goals and to shape engagements from discovery to delivery. You will work directly with enterprise leaders, help win work, and stay close through delivery so each project fuels the next.

You’ll design engagements, define milestones, and collaborate with engineers to ensure the right AI solutions are proposed and delivered. This role requires executive presence, strong writing, and a commercial mindset.

Qualifications

• Ability to scope ambiguous problems and persuade senior stakeholders.
• Ability to understand AI capabilities (LLMs) and avoid overpromising.
• Strong ability to run discovery sessions with VPs and senior leaders.
• Excellent writing for proposals, one-pagers, and points of view.
• Commercial instinct to identify and frame value and close engagements.
• Based in Austin or open to relocation.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery with enterprise stakeholders — executives, operators, and technical leads — to surface high-value AI use cases
• Turn business problems into concrete engagement scopes: outcomes, milestones, and pricing, working with our engineering leads
• Drive the sales motion alongside our Head of Growth: workshops, pilot design, proposals, and demos
• Stay embedded in accounts through delivery — own the strategic layer, keep executives bought in, and spot expansion opportunities
• Build points of view: briefs and roadmaps on where AI creates value in a client’s industry and operations
• Feed what you learn in the market back into Linkt’s positioning, offers, and platform

Skills

Ambiguity handling

Executive presence

Proposal writing

Commercial acumen

Closing deals

Tools

CRM tools

Job description

AI Strategist

Linkt · Austin, TX (hybrid) · Full-time

About Linkt

Linkt is an AI deployment company based in Austin. We embed senior engineers directly inside client organizations — from PE-backed platforms to national enterprise brands — to build and ship production AI systems, not slide decks.

The role

You’re the commercial and strategic counterpart to our engineers. You’ll sit with enterprise leaders to find where AI actually pays inside their business, shape those opportunities into scoped engagements, help win the work, and stay close through delivery so every project earns the next one. Our engineers make the systems real; you make sure we’re building the right ones for the right clients — and that the relationship compounds.

What you’ll do

• Run discovery with enterprise stakeholders — executives, operators, and technical leads — to surface high-value AI use cases
• Turn business problems into concrete engagement scopes: outcomes, milestones, and pricing, working with our engineering leads
• Drive the sales motion alongside our Head of Growth: workshops, pilot design, proposals, and demos
• Stay embedded in accounts through delivery — own the strategic layer, keep executives bought in, and spot expansion opportunities
• Build points of view: briefs and roadmaps on where AI creates value in a client’s industry and operations
• Feed what you learn in the market back into Linkt’s positioning, offers, and platform

What we’re looking for

• A background where you had to scope ambiguous problems and convince serious people: consulting, solutions engineering, strategy, product, or founding something
• Enough technical depth to be credible in the room — you understand what LLMs and agents can and can’t do, and you never promise magic
• Executive presence: you can run a discovery session with a room of VPs solo
• Strong writing — proposals, one-pagers, and points of view that get read and get signed
• Commercial instinct: you like finding value, framing it, and closing it
• Based in Austin or willing to relocate

Nice to have

• Forward-deployed or deployment strategist experience at a technical consultancy or Palantir-style organization
• You’ve sold or scoped technical services before and have the scar tissue to prove it
• Domain depth in enterprise industries — financial services, insurance, logistics, or multi-unit consumer brands
• You build with AI tools yourself

Why this role

• Shape go-to-market from near-zero at a firm where the product is delivery — you sell work that actually ships
• Work directly with the founders and our Head of Growth
• A live enterprise pipeline from day one — you’re not starting cold
• A seat at the center of Austin’s AI scene through Hack AI

Compensation & benefits

• Base: [$X–$Y] + variable tied to [sourced / expanded revenue]
• [Equity / bonus structure]
• [Health benefits, tooling budget, etc.]

Process

Intro call → scoping exercise (we give you a real‑shaped business problem, you shape the engagement) → working session with the founders → offer. We move in about two weeks.

Linkt is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate candidates on ability and evidence of impact, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.