Applied AI Strategist, Federal

The role

You will help federal customers identify where AI can improve work and implement those capabilities. You will investigate data and processes, build workflows in Lemma, and test them with users.

What you will do

• Work alongside users to understand decisions and obstacles.
• Identify problems worth solving and establish measurement for improvement.
• Investigate available data and systems with customers and engineering partners.
• Build agents and workflows in Lemma.
• Test logic with realistic examples and refine builds with users.
• Agree on scope, milestones and acceptance criteria.
• Run working sessions and training.
• Measure adoption and results and explain them to stakeholders.
• Bring customer problems back to product and engineering.
• Work with Growth on discovery and evaluations.

Required qualifications

• Four or more years of relevant experience, or comparable evidence of independently leading customer delivery, product implementation or operational technology adoption.
• A track record of taking an ambiguous problem through implementation and into sustained use.
• Strong analytical judgment.
• Technical fluency with APIs, data structures and AI models.
• The ability to work credibly with users, technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Clear writing and practical execution.

Nice to have

• Working with federal agencies or military teams.
• Using SQL, Python or another analytical tool to investigate data or prototype a solution.
• Building or deploying AI applications, including evaluations and workflows with human review.
• Helping users change established processes and measuring whether a new tool improved their work.
• An advanced degree is optional.

Benefits

• Equity

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident.
• An active U.S. Secret security clearance or higher is preferred, but not required.

About the company

Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine. Headquartered in New York, the team aims to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies.