Senior Solution Owner (Data, Technology & AI)

CompassX Group; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CompassX Group is seeking a seasoned leader to guide client engagements from executive leadership through solution design. You will shape approach, validate the technical path, and own the overall solution while partnering with architects, engineers, and AI practitioners. Expect strong emphasis on data, AI, and credible executive communication.

Southern California-based preferred. This role emphasizes building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and delivering clear, actionable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience spanning consulting, product ownership, and/or solution design.
• Proven track record presenting to senior client executives.
• Experience shaping or designing a solution (architecture, process, or product).
• Working knowledge of data and AI environments — pipelines, analytics, model evaluation, or modern data architecture.
• Strong executive communication and consensus-building skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher (Business, Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Ideally based in Southern California.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary, trusted face of CompassX to senior client stakeholders.
• Lead executive-level conversations turning ambiguous business challenges into actionable direction.
• Build consensus across stakeholder groups with competing priorities and navigate organizational dynamics.
• Own the design of the solution — shape the approach, validate it technically, defend it.
• Partner with architects, engineers, and data/AI practitioners to ensure the technical approach holds up.
• Drive process improvement and ways of working recommendations as part of the solution.
• Evaluate feasibility of data and AI use cases, and discuss data pipelines and model approaches.
• Bring fluency in delivery fundamentals (Agile, UAT, data validation) with support from delivery specialists.

Skills

Executive presence

Solution design

Data & AI

Agile/UAT

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher (Business, CS, Eng)

Job description

What You’ll Do

Client Leadership & Communication

• Act as the primary, trusted face of CompassX to senior client stakeholders - building the kind of credibility that gets you invited into the room before a problem is even fully defined.
• Lead executive-level conversations that turn ambiguous business challenges into a clear, actionable solution direction.
• Build consensus across stakeholder groups with competing priorities, and navigate organizational dynamics without losing momentum.

Solution Design & Ownership

• Own the design of the solution itself - not just the plan to deliver it. Shape the approach, validate it technically, and defend it under scrutiny.
• Partner closely with architects, engineers, and data/AI practitioners to ensure the technical approach holds up, while remaining the accountable owner of the overall solution.
• Drive process improvement and "ways of working" recommendations as part of the solution, not as an afterthought.

Data, Technology & AI Fluency

• Evaluate the feasibility of data and AI use cases, and speak credibly to data pipelines, model approaches, and modern architecture.
• Bring a point of view on where AI genuinely adds value to a solution - and where it doesn't.
• Use AI as part of your own working style (research, synthesis, solutioning), modeling the kind of modern practice CompassX brings to clients.

Delivery (supporting, not core)

• Bring enough fluency in delivery fundamentals - Agile, UAT, data validation - to keep a workstream credible, with support from delivery specialists as needed.
• This is not a scrum-master or backlog-management role; delivery mechanics are a "nice to have," not the job.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience spanning consulting, product ownership, and/or solution design — ideally with time at a reputable consulting firm.
• A track record of being the trusted senior presence in front of executive clients, not just a coordinator of workstreams.
• Real experience shaping or designing a solution (architecture, process, or product), not only managing its delivery.
• Working knowledge of data and AI environments — pipelines, analytics, model evaluation, or modern data architecture.
• Strong executive communication and consensus-building skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher (Business, Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Ideally based in Southern California.

$130,000 - $180,000 a year