Staff People Analyst - Applied AI

Intuit; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Business Data Analyst to prototype AI solutions across talent analytics, workforce planning, and people insights. You will build AI agents and experiments, design governance and dashboards, and coordinate with the enterprise AI Transformation team to scale learning across the organization.

You’ll translate technical work into business decisions, operate in ambiguity, and contribute to the contextual HR data layer while planning for production handoff and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in AI, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in business/data analytics or applied AI/ML roles, with demonstrated hands-on ownership of building and shipping solutions
• Direct, hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered tools/prototypes (e.g., Claude, GPT)
• Working knowledge of data warehouse, data pipeline, and data architecture concepts
• Experience with dashboard/BI design and self-serve or conversational analytics patterns
• Comfort defining confidence tiers or governance for AI-generated outputs
• Strong ability to evaluate technical feasibility vs. speculative AI use cases
• Excellent communication skills translating technical experimentation into executive decisions
• Autonomy in ambiguous, undefined problem spaces

Responsibilities

• AI Agents and Proof-of-Concept Development & Experimentation
• Design, build, and iterate rapid AI proof-of-concepts across talent analytics, workforce planning, and related use cases
• Design agent-assisted analytics with explicit decision boundaries
• Continuously scan for new AI capabilities and use cases for talent analytics
• Self-Serve Analytics, Visualization & Output Trust
• Define dashboard/visualization patterns for prototypes progressing to self-serve or conversational analytics
• Label AI outputs by confidence tier and ensure provenance
• Enterprise AI Partnership & Standards Alignment
• Partner with AI Transformation team to align with enterprise standards and roadmap
• Contextual & Semantic Layer Contribution
• Work with Technology/HR to contribute to HR contextual layer
• Planning, Roadmap Integration & Production Handoff
• Provide reliable estimates and rigorous spec-writing for large initiatives
• Embed AI into the analytics product roadmap and plan prototypes accordingly
• Define production handoff criteria with data engineering and product
• Technical Feasibility, Risk & Executive Communication
• Evaluate feasibility vs. speculation and communicate actionable recommendations
• Communicate feasibility and next steps to senior stakeholders
• Capability Building
• Raise applied-AI capability with reusable patterns and tooling standards
• Coach senior analysts and partner teams to run AI projects independently

Skills

Hands-on ownership

AI/ML experimentation

Executive communication

Ambiguity navigation

Prototype to production

Education

Bachelor's degree in AI/Data Analytics/CS/Business/HR/I-O Psychology

Tools

Claude/GPT

Workday HCM

Avature/ATS platforms

Job description

Overview

The People & Places Analytics, Research, and Technology (PART) team is looking for a Staff Business Data Analyst to drive applied AI experimentation across Talent Analytics, workforce planning, and broader people insights. AI is reshaping how People Analytics can operate, but turning that opportunity into deployed value requires someone who builds and tests AI solutions directly, not just commissions them. This role will rapidly prototype AI proof-of-concepts against people data, stress-test which ideas are worth scaling, and serve as the team's connective tissue to both Intuit's enterprise AI Transformation team and the enterprise AI contextual layer, ensuring local experimentation compounds into enterprise capability instead of duplicating it.

Overview

This role will rapidly prototype AI proof-of-concepts against people data, stress-test which ideas are worth scaling, and serve as the team's connective tissue to both Intuit's enterprise AI Transformation team and the enterprise AI contextual layer, ensuring local experimentation compounds into enterprise capability instead of duplicating it.

This is a hands-on builder role for someone comfortable operating in ambiguity, translating between technical experimentation and business need, and representing the team credibly in cross-org AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

AI Agents and Proof-of-Concept Development & Experimentation

Design, build, and iterate rapid AI proof-of-concepts and experiments across the team's domain (talent analytics, workforce planning, talent acquisition, and related people-data use cases), using modern AI/LLM tooling to validate ideas before committing engineering investment

Design agent-assisted analytics for these pilots with explicit decision boundaries — specifying what an agent may decide or act on autonomously versus what must upscale to a human, grounded in governed data

Continuously scan for new AI capabilities, tools, and use cases applicable to talent analytics and workforce planning, maintaining a point of view on what's worth piloting next

Self-Serve Analytics, Visualization & Output Trust

Define the dashboard and visualization patterns for prototypes that graduate toward self-serve or conversational analytics, and identify which underlying data sources are certified for that use

Label AI-generated outputs and prototypes by confidence tier (e.g., exploratory, validated, decision-ready) so stakeholders know how much weight an insight can bear, and ensure provenance is traceable

Enterprise AI Partnership & Standards Alignment

Partner with the AI Transformation team to align local experimentation with enterprise AI standards, tooling, and roadmap, so pilots aren't reinvented or left orphaned

Bring enterprise capabilities into the team's use cases and feed learnings back to the enterprise team

Contextual & Semantic Layer Contribution

Work with Technology and HR organization to contribute to and consume the HR contextual layer, encoding the team's domain definitions and business logic so both people and agents can rely on them consistently as shared context infrastructure matures

Planning, Roadmap Integration & Production Handoff

Provide reliable estimates and establish a shared, spec-writing discipline for ambiguous, large-scope initiatives so that AI-assisted work is planned with the same rigor as any other delivery

Embed AI into the team's analytics product roadmap, identifying where AI changes what a product can do rather than bolting it onto existing outputs, and sequencing prototypes so validated ideas have a defined path forward

Define what moves from prototype to production, working with data engineering and product to hand off validated solutions with documentation, authored evaluation criteria, and the context needed to sustain them, closing the loop by routing outcomes back into future prototyping

Technical Feasibility, Risk & Executive Communication

Evaluate what's technically feasible versus speculative, and translate that into clear, actionable recommendations for leadership

Communicate technical feasibility, risk, and recommended next steps for AI initiatives to senior stakeholders

Capability Building

Raise applied-AI capability across the team and partner groups by establishing reusable patterns, tooling standards, and working practices so AI-enabled delivery becomes the team's default rather than one person's specialty

Coach senior analysts and partner teams to run AI-assisted projects and agents independently, building their judgment rather than just delivering outputs for them.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in AI, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in business/data analytics or applied AI/ML roles, with demonstrated hands-on ownership (not just oversight) of building and shipping solutions
• Direct, hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents or LLM-powered tools/prototypes (e.g., using Claude, GPT, or similar) — this is a builder role, not just a commissioner role
• Working knowledge of data warehouse, data pipeline, and data architecture concepts, and how they affect AI/analytics readiness at scale
• Experience with dashboard/BI design and self-serve or conversational analytics patterns, including how to certify data sources for broader consumption
• Comfort defining confidence tiers or similar governance for AI-generated outputs, and reliably estimating and scoping ambiguous, large initiatives
• Strong point of view on evaluating technical feasibility vs. speculative AI use cases, with the judgment to make build/no-build recommendations
• Excellent communication skills, with a track record of translating technical experimentation into decisions for senior stakeholders and executive audiences
• Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, undefined problem spaces — this role sits ahead of established enterprise AI patterns

Preferred

• Experience with Workday HCM data and Avature or other ATS/recruiting platforms
• Experience partnering with an enterprise AI/AI Transformation team, platform team, or ML engineering org on shared standards or infrastructure
• Familiarity with talent analytics or workforce planning domains (headcount, requisitions, planned exits, hiring projections)
• Familiarity with People Data governance, security, and access considerations

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

• Mountain View $169,500 - $229,000
• New York $159,500- $215,500
• San Diego, CA $151,000- $204,000