Applied AI Lead

BOI (Board of Innovation); Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 102,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

25 days PTO

Hybrid working

Professional development

Job summary

BOI (Board of Innovation) seeks an AI Engagement Lead to steer enterprise AI transformations from strategy to adoption. You’ll lead complex client engagements, shape AI solutions, and drive delivery across cross-functional teams while cultivating senior stakeholder relationships.

You’ll move from business cases to roadmaps, prototype and deploy AI workflows, and ensure measurable value. This role blends consulting rigor with hands-on AI execution in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in enterprise client engagements
• Experience taking AI products from problem definition through prototype, build, deployment, or adoption
• Hands-on use of modern AI tools; built workflows, copilots, agents, or automations
• Experience leading significant workstreams or delivering strategy/transformation engagements
• Experience with business cases, roadmaps, operating models, adoption, or change
• Experience contributing to proposal development or engagement scoping

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day delivery of complex AI engagements across multiple workstreams
• Structure work, set priorities, and keep cross-functional teams moving
• Navigate ambiguity and solve problems with pragmatic decisions
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders through workshops and structured delivery
• Stay hands-on in the work while guiding next steps for the client
• Translate business priorities into AI opportunities worth pursuing
• Lead product discovery with client teams and end users to map workflows
• Shape AI products from concept through prototype, build, deployment and adoption
• Define what to build first and what success looks like
• Lead AI engineers, designers, and client teams to align business and technical needs
• Prototype and test ideas using modern AI tools, agents, and automations
• Keep the work grounded in real users and measurable outcomes
• Connect work to the business case, roadmap, and operating changes needed for adoption
• Translate lessons into broader implications for organizational change
• Know when not to build another AI product and bring strategic thinking

Skills

AI tools usage

Workflows automation

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Proposal development

Strategy consulting

Tools

AI tools

Job description

About BOI

BOI is an AI Transformation Studio that helps ambitious companies redesign their growth engines for the autonomous age. We bring together unusually strong people in frontier enterprise AI, then give them the ownership to make it happen.

About BOI

BOI is an AI Transformation Studio that helps ambitious companies redesign their growth engines for the autonomous age. We bring together unusually strong people in frontier enterprise AI, then give them the ownership to make it happen.
AI is rapidly reshaping how companies grow: how they innovate, acquire customers, personalize experiences, and scale commercial performance. Yet most organizations struggle to move beyond pilots and point solutions toward AI-enabled growth systems that actually work at enterprise scale.

About The Role

As an AI Engagement Lead, you'll bring the structured problem-solving, client leadership, and delivery experience of a strong consultant to some of the most exciting challenges in enterprise AI. You'll lead complex client engagements, working with senior business leaders to identify opportunities, shape solutions, and guide cross-functional teams from strategy through execution and adoption.
Working closely with our Directors and Managing Director of Applied AI, you'll help clients identify where AI can make a meaningful difference, shape what to build, and work with cross-functional teams to get it into the hands of real users. You'll move between business cases and roadmaps, product discovery and prototyping, delivery and adoption depending on what the problem requires.
Applied AI is your major, but you're a generalist at heart. You can zoom out to understand the broader business and transformation challenge, then zoom in to help turn an opportunity into something tangible. You understand the distance between a compelling AI demo and a solution that works in the real world.
You'll also bring credibility through practice. You use AI every day and have built your own workflows, tools, automations, or prototypes. We believe the best people to help companies apply AI are those who live it themselves.
As you grow in the role, you'll take increasing ownership of client relationships, proposals, and commercial opportunities, with coaching and support from Directors.

What You Will Do

Lead Complex Client Delivery

• Own the day-to-day delivery of complex AI engagements, maintaining a high bar across multiple workstreams
• Structure work, set priorities, and keep cross-functional teams moving
• Navigate ambiguity with confidence, proactively solving problems and making pragmatic decisions without waiting for direction
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders by leading workshops, challenging assumptions, and bringing structure to complex problems
• Stay hands-on in the work while keeping sight of the broader objective and what the client needs to do next

Turn AI Opportunities Into Working Solutions

• Translate business priorities and user problems into AI opportunities worth pursuing
• Lead product discovery with client teams and end users to understand workflows, define problems, and determine where AI can create meaningful value
• Shape AI products and solutions from early concept through prototype, build, deployment, and adoption
• Define what to build first, what success looks like, and what to cut, keeping teams focused on the optimal path to value
• Lead AI engineers, designers, and client teams to translate between business needs, user needs, and technical feasibility
• Prototype and test ideas using modern AI tools, agents, workflows, and automations
• Keep the work grounded in real users and measurable outcomes, not technology for technology's sake

Connect Applied AI to Broader Transformation

• Connect what you're building to the bigger picture: the business case, roadmap, capabilities, operating changes, and adoption required to create lasting value
• Help clients understand what needs to change around the technology for AI solutions to succeed at scale
• Translate lessons from individual products and use cases into broader implications for how the organization operates
• Know when the answer isn't another AI product, and bring broader strategy and transformation thinking when that's what the problem requires

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience, including at least 2 years at a management, strategy, technology, or transformation consulting firm, delivering complex engagements for enterprise clients
• Experience taking AI products, solutions, or use cases from problem definition through prototype, build, deployment, or adoption
• Demonstrated hands-on use of modern AI tools in your own work. You've built workflows, automations, copilots, agents, or other practical AI solutions- not just advised clients on them
• Experience leading significant workstreams or owning delivery for strategy or transformation engagements
• Experience with the broader transformation required to make AI stick — whether through business cases, roadmaps, operating models, capability building, adoption, or change
• Experience contributing to proposal development, engagement scoping, or growing existing client accounts
• Strong ability to translate between business ambition and technical feasibility
• Comfort operating in complex stakeholder environments with senior leaders

What We Screen For

• Low ego- You're confident, but grounded. You own mistakes, invite critique, share credit, and make the team better
• High aptitude- You learn fast. You think clearly. You simplify complexity. You don't just execute- you understand. You've worked on complex strategy or transformation engagements and know the difference between what looks good in a deck and what actually works in practice
• High ownership- You don't wait to be told. You move things forward, take responsibility beyond your role, and stay resourceful in ambiguity
• Driven - You focus on outcomes, not activity.
• Commercial sharpness - You recognize the problems worth solving, understand what creates value for clients, and spot opportunities to turn great work into broader relationships
• Passionate about AI - You use AI daily. You experiment, build, and stay close to what's changing. You've built your own workflows, tools, automations, agents, or prototypes - you don't work with AI from the sidelines

Benefits

Salary: Up to $170,000 base, plus performance bonus.
We also offer comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), 25 days PTO, hybrid working, professional development support, and the opportunity to work alongside some of the world's leading AI practitioners on high-impact enterprise transformations.