Sight Machine

Artificial Intelligence

• Own deep understanding of manufacturing operations, industry dynamics, competitive landscape, and client strategic objectives
• Define and prioritize use cases based on business value, feasibility, and strategic alignment with enterprise transformation goals
• Lead persona development and journey mapping to ensure solutions address real operational challenges and user needs
• Maintain long-term strategic vision for client relationships, identifying expansion opportunities and ensuring scalable solution design
• Translate complex manufacturing challenges into AI-enabled solution strategies that deliver measurable ROI
• Guide clients through digital transformation journeys, managing change at organizational, process, and technology levels
• Build trusted advisor relationships with C-suite executives, plant leadership, and operational stakeholders across complex manufacturing organizations
• Navigate multi-layered organizational dynamics, managing competing priorities and political considerations across operations, IT/OT, data science, and business intelligence functions
• Facilitate executive alignment on transformation priorities, success metrics, and investment decisions
• Communicate strategic vision, progress updates, and business value realization to senior leadership with clarity and impact
• Manage escalations and resolve business/political issues that could derail delivery
• Orchestrate complex project delivery across multiple parallel workstreams, ensuring coordination, visibility, and timely execution
• Manage project boards, tracking systems, and reporting rhythms that maintain transparency across all stakeholders
• Lead status meetings, facilitate decision-making, and maintain project momentum through proactive issue resolution
• Ensure nothing falls through the cracks by maintaining comprehensive oversight of dependencies and deliverables
• Work with Forward Deployed Engineers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and validate feasibility
• Arbitrate scope and priority decisions, making strategic trade-offs based on business value and resource constraints
• Design user-centric AI-powered workflows and applications that address operational gaps and drive adoption
• Iterate rapidly with end users to validate solutions match actual needs, workflows, and deliver measurable value
• Bridge the gap between what users need and what gets built, ensuring solutions align with strategic intent and use case priorities
• Work with the Product team to scale developed solutions and contribute to platform capability evolution
• Maintain focus on user adoption and value realization, measuring success through business outcomes rather than technical deliverables
• Apply deep understanding of AI/ML capabilities to manufacturing use cases, identifying high-impact opportunities for predictive analytics, optimization, and intelligent automation
• Collaborate with data science teams to design advanced analytics that solve real manufacturing problems
• Communicate AI/ML concepts and value propositions to non-technical stakeholders, building confidence and driving adoption
• Stay current on Industrial AI trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, bringing thought leadership to client engagements
• This position requires up to 40% domestic and international travel to client business and factory sites to facilitate workshops, conduct stakeholder meetings, walk factory floors, and lead on-site strategic sessions.

Industrial AI Forward Deployed Strategist