Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Consultant

Proactive Technology Management

Forward Deployed Engineer managing AI integration within healthcare organizations, leading discovery cycles, and translating findings into actionable roadmaps. Client-facing role with up to 30% travel expectation.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeDetroit • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AssemblyOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run the 30-day AI Jumpstart Discovery cycle: kickoff, eight to fifteen department-level event-storming interviews, AI-assisted analysis, executive prioritization workshop, and final readout.
Apply our pain-first discovery method. You surface drudgery, manual handoffs, bottlenecks, and broken approvals before any tool conversation. The "tool-first" trap is the failure mode we exist to prevent.
Facilitate executive prioritization workshops that resolve a portfolio of 15 to 30 candidates into a ranked Top 5: three quick wins (high value, low risk) and two strategic bets (high value, high complexity), each defensible with math.
Co-design current-state and future-state BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) maps with department owners, applying our Digital Assembly Line model to identify where AI, document understanding, and programmatic automation replace manual toil.
Translate findings into ROI projections the CFO will accept — labor reallocation, cycle-time reduction, denial-rate movement, throughput per FTE, audit exposure, prior-auth turnaround, whatever the workflow demands.
Direct the four-agent deliverable pipeline that converts transcripts into client-ready artifacts (opportunity extraction → current/future BPMN → department reports → org-wide consolidation). You do not operate it line by line — that is what the Product Analyst on your engagement does — but you set quality, own QA against transcripts, and sign off before anything reaches the client.
Address the blockers that prevent AI from reaching enterprise-grade maturity in real operations: data readiness, integration complexity, change-management friction, HIPAA and PHI boundaries, governance constructs the client cannot articulate yet.
Act as the feedback loop into PTM's Fusion methodology and tooling. Every engagement you run produces field signal that updates our interview guide, our prompt library, our BPMN style guide, and our healthcare-vertical playbook. Your work compounds across the practice.
Carry the relationship from Discovery into the implementation Statement of Work. You participate in scope development and maintain continuity into the build phase.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Eight or more years in healthcare operations, healthcare consulting (Big 4, boutique, or in-house transformation), or healthcare-IT advisory.
Client-facing engagement leadership at the director, VP, or partner-track level. You have owned engagements, not contributed to them.
Working knowledge of at least one major EHR ecosystem (Epic, Oracle Health / Cerner, Meditech, athenahealth) at the workflow level. You do not need to build in it.
Track record of executive-ready deliverables under tight cycles.
Curiosity about applied AI in operational workflows. You do not need to be an AI specialist. You do need to be willing to learn our methodology deeply and apply it with discipline. Fluency with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Microsoft 365 Copilot at a deliberate-operator level is expected within 90 days if you do not already have it.
US work authorization.
Nice to Have
PE-portfolio company exposure or experience working with operating partners.
Familiarity with BPMN, Lean, Six Sigma, or a comparable process-modeling discipline.
Prior experience with discovery- or assessment-driven sales motions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Possibility of contract-to-hire
Full Medical Benefits
2 Weeks Paid Vacation
Full Time
Dental & vision insurance
401(k) matching

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Hard Skills & Tools

BPMNAI-assisted analysisROI projectionsprocess modelingexecutive prioritizationdiscovery methoddata readinessintegration complexitychange managementhealthcare operations

Soft Skills

client engagement leadershipcuriosityquality assurancerelationship managementfacilitationproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingadaptability