AI Strategist
Confluent
Distributed Systems
Director of Data and AI
Origami Risk
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $222,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudPythonSQL
About the role
- Defines and owns the vision and roadmap for a unified data and AI strategy that supports business growth, customer insights, operational efficiency, and product innovation
- Conducts a full audit of the current data landscape (including sources, pipelines, and storage) to inform future-state architecture
- Leads the development of a cloud-native data lake house on AWS, leveraging Databricks for storage, transformation, and ML workloads
- Maintains a pulse on industry innovation and champions emerging technologies to position Origami as a leader in data and AI
- Improves data observability, lineage, quality, and governance practices to increase trust, reuse, and regulatory readiness
- Works cross-functionally to establish data policies, metadata standards, and stewardship practices aligned with internal and external compliance requirements
- Drives the democratization of AI by embedding capabilities (e.g., summarization, predictive insights, workflow automation) across the platform for both end-users and administrators
- Establishes an internal AI enablement platform with APIs, tooling, and guardrails for standardized access to public LLMs and foundational models
- Oversees the prompt engineering and evaluation framework, including testing, versioning, and optimization across multiple user flows
- Develops a transparent AI usage and monetization model, including automated tracking for token usage, billing, and overages
- Expands self-service analytics capabilities through ThoughtSpot, enabling teams and clients to generate insights from governed datasets
- Partners with Product, Engineering, and Product Marketing teams to achieve and track adoption of AI features, with a target of 50% usage across the customer base
- Works closely with internal stakeholders to identify value-driving metrics and communicate data and AI impact across the organization
- Identifies commercial opportunities across datasets and customer segments by developing data-driven and AI-enhanced product features
- Leads the acceleration of white-labeled AI capabilities, including assessments of external partnerships and vendors to expand feature sets
- Articulates the value of data and AI to executive leadership, internal stakeholders, and clients
- Manages and mentors a team of data engineers and ML/AI/Prompt engineers
- Collaborates closely with architects and product teams to embed data and AI capabilities into the platform’s core.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field required
- Master’s degree preferred
- 5+ years in a data and/or AI leadership role (Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Analytics, Machine Learning, etc.)
- Experience in a SaaS B2B environment strongly preferred
- Prior experience commercializing data and AI into scalable, productized features
- Hands-on experience with:
- AWS for data and compute infrastructure
- Databricks for lake house architecture and ML workflows
- ThoughtSpot or comparable analytics platforms
- SQL, Python, and relevant AI/LLM tooling
- Experience managing teams, budgets, and vendor relationships
- Deep understanding of data and AI compliance requirements, including governance, privacy, and contractual obligations
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Benefits
- Medical and Dental coverage available for employees, dependents, domestic partners, and spouses
- Paid Time Off – Flexible options plus 10 paid company holidays where available**
- Fully Paid by Origami Risk – Vision insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance
- Generous family leave options—including adoption and foster care placements
- Pre-Tax Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Commuter Benefits, Dependent Care Savings Account
- Retirement Savings – 401(k) with company match up to 4%
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential & Free support offered to colleagues facing personal or work-related complications
- Education Assistance Program – to help colleagues pursue industry/role-specific certifications
- Wellness Benefits – reimbursement program to invest in healthy habits as well as support better colleague productivity and stress management
- Additional coverages available – Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Voluntary Life & AD&D coverage **Flexible PTO not available in California or the UK
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data architecturedata engineeringanalyticsmachine learningSQLPythoncloud-native data lake houseprompt engineeringdata observabilitydata governance
Soft skills
communicationstorytellingstakeholder engagementleadershipmentoringcollaborationstrategic visioncross-functional teamworkproblem-solvinginnovation
