Data & AI Delivery Lead - Technical Project Management (US Only)

Braintrust; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Equity available

Bonus 15-20%

Job summary

Occulytics is hiring a Data & AI Delivery Lead to scale our consulting practice and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients in the Chicago area.

You will own engagements from kickoff through completion, work closely with leadership and engineering teams, manage client relationships, anticipate risk, and ensure commitments land on time or ahead of schedule.

Qualifications

• 2+ years delivering data, analytics, or AI projects with client-facing engagements.
• Experience with ingestion through modeling to BI and collaborating with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and technical teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to lead client meetings and push back when needed.
• Experience using AI agents to optimize delivery.
• Disciplined project management with scope control and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across multiple client engagements from kickoff through close.
• Turn scoped engagements into executable delivery plans, managing timelines and dependencies.
• Identify risks, manage scope, and ensure on-time delivery to client objectives.
• Coordinate with vendors and delivery partners to stay on scope and quality.
• Translate complex technical work into business-friendly deliverables and validate outputs.

Skills

Data delivery

AI projects

Client-facing engagements

Vendor management

Project planning

Delivery leadership

Tools

SQL

Job description

About Occulytics

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

About Occulytics

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

• 2+ 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

• 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: $110,000
• Bonus: 15-20%
• 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.