Lead AI Strategist

Scope; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Founding team involvement

Relocation options

Job summary

Scope is seeking a senior delivery leader to own client engagements, turning operational problems into AI-enabled systems, from discovery through rollout. You will shape the approach, guide implementation, manage a delivery team, and stay accountable for outcomes.

The role combines executive-level client leadership with technical judgment, requiring fluency in Spanish and English and willingness to travel to Latin America and the United States.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience with increasing responsibility for complex, high-stakes work.
• Experience owning a software product or technical implementation through production, or comparable consulting experience with strong product judgment and technical curiosity.
• Ability to reason about architectures, integrations, data flows, and failure modes well enough to make decisions with engineers.
• Experience leading clients and cross-functional teams, explaining technical choices in business terms, and managing delivery risks.
• Sound judgment, fast learning, curiosity about unfamiliar operations, and comfort working with limited structure.
• Professional fluency in Spanish and English, with availability for client travel in Latin America and occasional travel to the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with business leaders, process owners, operators, and technology teams.
• Map workflows, systems, data, constraints, and operational needs; identify valuable, feasible opportunities.
• Set the architecture and implementation direction, making tradeoffs with engineers and challenging assumptions.
• Manage the assigned delivery team and own the client relationship, delivery risks, and deployment outcomes.
• Guide implementation through production readiness and adoption, contributing directly to prototyping or debugging when useful.
• Help develop the delivery approach and, as the organization grows, potentially establish a local office and build its initial team.

Skills

Executive client leadership

Technical judgment

Delivery management

Cross-functional leadership

Architectural reasoning

Tools

Production deployments

System architecture

Prototyping/debugging

Job description

Role overview

Own client engagements that turn operational problems into AI-enabled systems deployed in production and adopted by the people who use them. This senior role combines executive-level client leadership with technical judgment: you’ll shape the approach, guide implementation, manage a delivery team, and stay accountable for outcomes from discovery through rollout.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with business leaders, process owners, operators, and technology teams.
• Map workflows, systems, data, constraints, and operational needs; identify valuable, feasible opportunities.
• Set the architecture and implementation direction, making tradeoffs with engineers and challenging assumptions.
• Manage the assigned delivery team and own the client relationship, delivery risks, and deployment outcomes.
• Guide implementation through production readiness and adoption, contributing directly to prototyping or debugging when useful.
• Help develop the delivery approach and, as the organization grows, potentially establish a local office and build its initial team.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience with increasing responsibility for complex, high-stakes work.
• Experience owning a software product or technical implementation through production, or comparable consulting experience paired with strong product judgment and technical curiosity.
• Ability to reason about architectures, integrations, data flows, and failure modes well enough to make decisions with engineers.
• Experience leading clients and cross-functional teams, explaining technical choices in business terms, and managing delivery risks.
• Sound judgment, fast learning, curiosity about unfamiliar operations, and comfort working with limited structure.
• Professional fluency in Spanish and English, with availability for client travel in Latin America and occasional travel to the United States.

Nice to have

Experience with backend systems, enterprise platforms, ERPs, legacy applications, retail, logistics, or financial operations; production AI, agent, knowledge, or automation systems; managing or mentoring engineers across workstreams; or helping establish a team, office, business unit, or market.

Benefits and work setup

Hybrid in Buenos Aires or remote from Bogotá or Mexico City. The role is part of a founding team and offers broad responsibility in shaping delivery practices. Relocation within Latin America or to the United States may be explored based on mutual interest, business needs, and available immigration options.