Senior Strategy & AI Solutions Lead

robotsandpencils; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision

Retirement plan

Competitive salary

Job summary

Robots and Pencils seeks a Lead Strategy Analyst to steer discovery for complex client engagements, turning uncertain challenges into clear recommendations and actionable plans. You will lead cross-functional teams, connect client goals to digital and AI solutions, and guide senior stakeholders from exploration to delivery while shaping governance and success metrics.

This role involves building lightweight prototypes, developing business cases, and coordinating with design, data, engineering,

Qualifications

• Experience independently leading strategy or business analysis engagements from discovery through recommendations and planning.
• Strong skills in problem framing, workflow analysis, prioritization, and building evidence-based business cases.
• Ability to facilitate high-stakes client sessions and communicate complex findings to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating across business, design, engineering, and delivery disciplines.
• Practical understanding of AI solution discovery, prototyping, governance, and user feedback cycles.
• Comfort working through competing priorities and constraints while maintaining delivery focus.

Responsibilities

• Own engagements from opportunity discovery and problem framing through prioritization, roadmaps, and pilot plans.
• Map customer journeys, operational workflows, and decision points to identify where digital solutions or automation could produce measurable value.
• Build business cases, define success measures, and align executive and operational stakeholders on expected outcomes.
• Create lightweight prototypes or demonstrations to make recommendations tangible and testable.
• Work with subject matter experts to organize institutional knowledge into useful materials for AI systems, such as prompts, evaluation examples, and retrieval content.
• Develop practical AI governance approaches covering privacy, human review, escalation, and responsible use.
• Facilitate workshops and executive briefings, communicate trade-offs clearly, and maintain trusted client relationships.
• Coordinate with design, data, engineering, and delivery teams so recommendations translate into implementation.

Skills

Strategy leadership

Business analysis

Problem framing

Stakeholder comms

Workflow analysis

AI discovery

Prototyping

Governance

Cross-functional

Job description

Robots and Pencils seeks a Lead Strategy Analyst to steer discovery for complex client engagements, turning uncertain challenges into clear recommendations and actionable plans. You will lead cross-functional teams, connect client goals to digital and AI solutions, and guide senior stakeholders from exploration to delivery while shaping governance and success metrics.

This role involves building lightweight prototypes, developing business cases, and coordinating with design, data, engineering,