AI Deployment Lead, Gov

The role

The AI Deployment Lead will own government engagements from discovery through production adoption and expansion. This player-coach role involves personally leading complex deployments while building teams, playbooks, and operating cadences.

What you will do

• Lead 2–4 complex government deployments personally while overseeing the broader portfolio.
• Shape scope, success criteria, stakeholder maps, and workplans before kickoff.
• Translate agency workflows into MVPs, technical requirements, and delivery roadmaps.
• Define value cases and learning agendas for each deployment.
• Run multi-workstream delivery with clear owners, milestones, and weekly cadence.
• Protect the critical path by surfacing risks and making scope/speed/quality trade-offs.
• Drive adoption and change management including stakeholder onboarding and training.
• Build relationships with mayors, city managers, CIOs, and agency heads.
• Turn field evidence into reusable product capabilities, playbooks, and templates.
• Partner with sales on renewal and expansion by translating deployment outcomes.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading complex, senior-stakeholder client programs.
• 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.
• Rigorous operating toolkit including structured problem-solving and hypothesis-driven workplans.
• Demonstrated senior-client leadership with executives and public officials.
• Product instinct to distinguish configuration requests from product insights.
• Builder’s temperament.
• Clear, decision-oriented communication across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Comfort with 30–50% travel.

Nice to have

• Public-sector delivery experience (govtech or civic tech).
• Familiarity with government procurement, security reviews, and contracting norms.
• Experience deploying AI/ML products.
• Experience hiring and managing delivery teams.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Country-specific benefits

About the company

Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward.