Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnered with major institutions to enhance operations for AI. The AI Strategist will lead customer engagements, ensuring project success and user adoption while navigating complex workflows to identify AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Earn Customer Trust: Demonstrate customer empathy and be the face of Distyl, managing relationships from end-users to executive stakeholders
- End-to-end Workflow & Outcome Ownership: Identify the most valuable problems to solve. Embed yourself in the customer's workflow to understand it better than the users themselves. Ensure high accuracy and reliability to achieve the desired outcomes. Take ownership and accountability for the success of the customer engagement
- Leadership: You and a technical lead will be jointly responsible for leading a team to deliver results to the customer
- Data Analysis: Navigate noisy enterprise data to identify how AI can create reliable outcomes despite real-world constraints
- User Adoption: Onboard users to our enterprise applications and platform, ensuring they realize value
- Product Feedback: Represent the customer's voice, surfacing pain points that drive future product improvements
Skills
- A proven record in managing complex projects or strategic leadership roles, with demonstrable experience in client-facing positions within AI or technology integration
- Capable of earning customer trust and liaising effectively between clients and internal teams
- A deep sense of user empathy and a customer-obsessed approach, ensuring solutions are technically sound and aligned with customer needs
- Ability to identify critical problems in complex situations, define outcomes, and create structure among competing priorities
- A passion for AI and optimism about its potential to impact the world
- Proficiency in programming, scripting, or statistical packages (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, SQL)
- Ability to travel 50%
Benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- 401(k) with additional perks (e.g., commuter benefits, in‑office lunch)
- Access to state‑of‑the‑art models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real‑world business problems
- Ownership of high‑impact projects across top enterprises
- A mission‑driven, fast‑moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence
Company Overview
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://distyl.ai.Company H1B Sponsorship
Distyl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 7 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.