AI Deployment Lead, Gov

Required

• 7+ years of experience leading complex, senior-stakeholder client programs—enterprise deployment leadership, AI / ML deployment, complex implementation, or program leadership at a high-growth software company, or comparable client-facing program leadership.
• Demonstrated experience taking an AI/ML, data, or other complex technical product from ambiguous problem framing through production use and adoption.
• Technical fluency in AI/ML and enterprise systems: you can map workflows and data, reason about integrations, evaluations, model behavior, security and production constraints, and pressure-test a delivery plan with engineers. You do not need to write production code.
• A rigorous operating toolkit: structured problem-solving, hypothesis-driven workplans, synthesis under ambiguity, managing a team and a client at the same time, and the confidence to deliver hard messages early and constructively.
• Demonstrated senior-client leadership—you’ve been the trusted day-to-day counterpart to executives and can build that trust quickly with elected officials, agency heads, and career public servants alike.
• Product instinct: you can distinguish a configuration request from a product insight, and you’ve worked closely enough with product/engineering teams to speak their language and earn their trust.
• Builder’s temperament: you’d rather create the playbook than inherit one, and you can hold high standards while shipping imperfect v1s of process.
• Clear, decision-oriented communication across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Comfort with 30–50% travel and genuine enthusiasm for working inside government buildings with the people who run them.