Cresta The AI Strategist at Cresta leads AI strategy for customers by identifying automation opportunities and building prioritized roadmaps. The role focuses on optimizing deployed AI solutions and delivering measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
As an AI Strategist, you are the embedded AI leader for our customers. You connect what customers are saying in their conversations, what their business needs most, and what Cresta's AI can do, then turn that into a prioritized plan and measurable results. You identify where automation and augmentation will deliver the most value, build the roadmap, and make sure the work ships and pays off.
AI Strategy and Roadmap
Identify automation and augmentation opportunities across the customer's contact center and wider customer experience operation.
Prioritize initiatives by expected ROI and build a business case for each one.
Build and maintain the customer's enterprise AI roadmap, and keep it current as priorities and Cresta capabilities change.
Align stakeholders across CX, Operations, Product, Sales, and IT on priorities, sequencing, and success criteria.
Conversation Intelligence and Business Insights
Use conversation data to surface customer friction and emerging trends before they show up in other metrics.
Identify operational inefficiencies and the changes that would reduce them.
Share Voice of Customer insights with customer leadership and with Cresta product teams.
Measure business impact and report it in terms executives care about, such as containment, handle time, conversion, CSAT, and cost to serve.
AI Innovation and Execution
Qualification
ExperienceStrategic and commercial skillsAnalytical approachTechnical understandingStakeholder leadershipCommunicationExecutionMindsetEducationBackground in management consulting
Required
Experience: 5+ years in technology consulting, strategy, product, analytics, implementation, or customer success roles, ideally with AI or LLM-first products.
Strategic and commercial skills: A track record of building roadmaps, prioritizing by ROI, and writing business cases that senior stakeholders approve.
Analytical approach: Strong data skills. You are comfortable analyzing conversation or operational data, designing experiments such as A/B tests, and monitoring performance to refine solutions.
Technical understanding: Working knowledge of how LLM-based AI agents function, including prompts, tools or function calling, and retrieval-augmented generation. Hands-on experience with an agent project, even a personal one, is a plus. You do not need to write production code, but you can read and reason about system behavior and discuss tradeoffs with engineers.
Stakeholder leadership: Experience leading cross-functional work and influencing senior customer stakeholders across CX, Operations, Product, Sales, and IT.
Communication: Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills. You can explain a complex finding to an executive in plain language.
Execution: Strong project management skills and a bias for action. You turn ambiguity into a plan and follow it through to results.
Mindset: Curious, self-driven, and comfortable learning quickly in a fast-moving startup environment. You are passionate about AI, automation, and the future of customer experience.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred
Familiarity with customer support and contact center operations, including metrics such as AHT, FCR, containment, and QA
Experience with conversation intelligence, speech analytics, or voice-of-customer programs
Background in management consulting, product management, or forward deployed roles
Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
Comfort with SQL or a BI tool for self-serve analysis
