About nAIxt Consulting / ILLUIN Technology

nAIxt Consulting is the consulting practice of ILLUIN Technology, a company founded in 2017 at the heart of CentraleSupélec, one of Europe's leading AI clusters. Specializing in applied AI in businesses (large corporations, public sector accounts, mid-sized companies, SMEs), ILLUIN is a pioneer in French-language NLP and conducts its own research in generative AI. Our consultants work immersed within the client's organization to deploy high-impact AI solutions (conversational assistants, document automation, data analysis), with an agnostic view of AI technologies (market solutions, Illuin products, custom approaches).

The Role

We are looking for several Forward Deployed Strategists (FDS) to join our team. In this role, you will drive the strategy for integrating AI solutions (from ad-hoc task automation to the Agentic vision), adoption, and orchestration of AI transformations, in collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE). Immersed at the client's site, you will act as the link between decision-makers, business units, and delivery teams to transform AI potential into real, measurable uses.

You will lead the AI transformation of a specific business scope. You will build the adoption strategy, orchestrate stakeholders (management, business units, IT, Data), and ensure measurable impact, from use case scoping to the embedding of new uses.

Your Missions

Strategy & Scoping

• Build and maintain the AI roadmap for a business scope

• Qualify and prioritize the portfolio of use cases based on value, feasibility, and risks

• Design target processes integrating AI and agents, and define human-AI interactions

• Build business cases and Go/No Go criteria with decision-makers

• Identify security, governance, and data quality prerequisites during the scoping phase

• Inform decisions between existing products and custom developments (Make vs. Buy)

Transformation Orchestration

• Engage in peer-level discussions with the Delivery Manager on progress, risks, and trade-offs between priorities, deadlines, and scope

• Be capable of end-to-end project management for low-volume missions that do not justify a dedicated Delivery Manager

• Align management, business units, IT, and Data around shared objectives and a common plan

• Sequence deployments so that each use case reinforces the next

• Plan deployments, anticipate dependencies, and remove blockers

• Manage the scaling of pilot projects with ILLUIN delivery teams

• Prepare and lead steering committee meetings (Project Committees, Steering Committees)

Adoption & Change Management

• Design the adoption strategy (training, communication, business relays, rituals)

• Build skill development plans

• Establish and facilitate AI ambassador networks within the client organization

• Identify resistance and implement appropriate responses

Impact & Measurement

• Define and track adoption and impact KPIs (usage rates, time saved, quality, operational savings)

• Measure results and present them to decision-makers in committee meetings

• Implement user feedback mechanisms and continuous improvement processes

• Adjust the deployment trajectory based on field feedback

Firm Life

• Mentor and develop junior consultants on assignments

• Contribute to business development, proposals, and presentations

• Capitalize on lessons learned and enrich the firm's methodologies and playbooks

Desired Profile: Above all, you are passionate about AI and want to contribute to making it truly useful for businesses

Education

• Master's degree (Bac+5) from an engineering school, business school, or university

• Specialization or further training in Data/AI and/or change management highly appreciated

Experience

• 3 to 7 years of experience, with at least 2 years in AI, data, or digital transformation projects

• You have supported at least 2 end-to-end AI deployment projects, from scoping to adoption

• You have previously prepared and led Project Management and steering committee meetings with decision-makers

• Experience in large corporate or consulting firm environments is highly appreciated

• Fluent English is a plus

Tools & Technical Skills

• Sufficient AI fundamentals (LLM, RAG, Agents) to assess feasibility and discuss with Data Scientists

• Building quantified business cases and prioritization matrices

• Building and presenting dashboards (Tableau, PowerBI, Looker)

• Good understanding of data, governance, security, and AI ethics challenges

• General understanding of cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Project management basics (planning, milestones, risk management, Agile methods) sufficient to engage with a Delivery Manager and, if necessary, manage a smaller project alone

Key Skills

• Ability to engage stakeholders with sometimes divergent interests

• Data storytelling, you present quantified results convincingly to decision-makers

• Ability to navigate the ambiguity of large organizations

• Active AI monitoring, you incorporate market developments into your recommendations

• Results-oriented, you seek impact before producing deliverables

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