Data & AI Delivery Lead

Occulytics Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Occulytics Inc. in Chicago is seeking a Data & AI Delivery Lead to scale our consulting practice and own engagements from kickoff to completion.

You'll collaborate with leadership and engineering teams to drive execution, manage client relationships, anticipate risk, and ensure every commitment lands on time or ahead of schedule. In this client-facing role, you will translate complex data and AI initiatives into actionable outcomes that operators, investors, and executives can understand and act

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering data, analytics, or AI projects.
• Experience with data/analytic workflows from ingestion to modeling to BI.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Practical experience using AI agents to optimize delivery.
• Disciplined planning and scope control.
• Experience managing vendors or delivery partners.
• Curiosity about client business and operations.
• Consulting or client-services experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across multiple client engagements from kickoff through close.
• Keep delivery anchored to the clients objectives and define success.
• Lead client and internal meetings; set agenda and follow-through.
• Turn scoped engagements into executable delivery plans; manage timelines and dependencies.
• Identify delivery risks and manage scope; keep clients informed.
• Manage vendors and delivery partners to stay on scope and on time.
• Use AI agents to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Contribute to building standardized, repeatable delivery approaches as we scale.
• Translate technical work into business-ready deliverables.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Data workflows

Communication

AI agents

Project management

Vendor management

Consulting

Business curiosity

Job description

Occulytics is building the infrastructure for action the senior living industry.

We partner with operators and investors to turn fragmented data into systems that drive occupancy, pricing, and growth. Our work goes beyond dashboards. We design end-to-end data and decision platforms used across portfolios.

We're a fast-growing company operating at the intersection of data, analytics, and real-world operations in a large, underserved market.

THE ROLE

We're hiring a Data & AI Delivery Lead to help scale our consulting practice and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients. You'll take engagements once they're scoped and own them from kickoff through completion: working closely with leadership and engineering teams to drive execution, manage client relationships, anticipate risk, and ensure every commitment lands on time or ahead of schedule.

This is a client-facing role where you'll turn complex data and AI initiatives into outcomes operators, investors, and executives can understand, trust, and act on.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Delivery Leadership

• Own delivery across multiple client engagements from kickoff through close
• Keep delivery anchored to the client's objectives. Ensure the team understands what we're building, why it matters, and what success looks like
• Lead client and internal meetings. Set the agenda, drive decisions, and own the follow-through
• Take a scoped engagement and turn it into an executable delivery plan. Manage timelines, dependencies, and evolving requirements, and keep the team aligned
• Proactively identify delivery risks, manage scope, and make sure clients always understand where things stand
• Manage vendors and delivery partners. Keep their work on scope, on time, and to standard
• Use AI agents to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and rethink how work gets done
• Contribute to building standardized, repeatable approaches as we scale

Delivery Quality

• Translate complex technical work into business-friendly deliverables that answer the actual question a client is asking
• Hold the quality bar on what ships. Make sure the output is clear, correct, and decision-ready, not just complete
• Run hands‑on validation. Spot-check data, sanity-check KPIs, and test agent outputs

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 5+ years of experience delivering data, analytics, or AI projects, with a track record of successfully managing complex client‑facing engagements
• Working familiarity with modern data and analytics workflows, from ingestion through modeling to BI. You've partnered closely with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and technical teams to deliver successful outcomes
• A strong communicator, in writing and in person. You can lead a room and push back with a client when it matters
• Clear, practical experience using AI agents to optimize delivery
• A disciplined project manager with strong planning and scope control
• Experience managing vendors or delivery partners
• Curious about the client's business. Eager to learn how senior living communities operate
• Consulting or client‑services experience is highly preferred, but not required

WHO SUCCEEDS HERE

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Love bringing order to complex, multi-workstream client work
• Enjoy earning the trust of executives, operators, and investors
• Can switch comfortably between a project plan, a SQL query, and a board‑ready presentation
• Care as much about how work is delivered as what gets delivered
• Want to help build the delivery engine of a fast‑growing analytics and AI company

COMPENSATION

• Base: $100,000
• Bonus + Equity: Available
• Location: Chicago strongly preferred (relocation assistance available)

WHY THIS ROLE

• High ownership, low bureaucracy
• Work on real problems with direct business impact

You will be a key face of delivery for a company clients are coming to rely on, working directly with company leadership and client stakeholders.

Occulytics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.