[Hiring] Forward Deployed AI Architect @Alzheimer's Association®

Role Description

The Forward Deployed AI Architect sits with a team, learns how their work actually happens, and then rebuilds that work with them using AI. Reporting to the Sr. Director of AI + Digital Transformation, this role takes prioritized processes from across the Alzheimer’s Association and makes them agentic, in whole or in part.

Each engagement is a sprint, running weeks to a few months, one process at a time, sometimes reaching across several business areas. The work starts with sitting next to people and watching what they actually do, at a level of detail needed for true transformation. It ends with something running that gives hours back, documentation the team can live with, and a clean handoff to AI Platform Operations and IT.

This is a builder role. You will spend your days inside our AI platforms (primarily Claude) shipping working solutions rather than recommending them.

Essential Responsibilities

• Process Discovery: Embed with a team and learn their work in granular detail. Map where the time goes, where errors creep in, and which parts of the job people dread.
• Building: Build working agents, automations, skills, and tools using approved AI platforms, primarily Claude.
• Sprint Delivery and Handoff: Run each engagement as a time-boxed sprint with a defined start and end. Prove it at the close and hand the solution to AI Platform Operations and IT.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and fix what you built while a sprint is live and through stabilization.
• Reuse and Pattern Library: Recognize when a solution built for one team fits four others. Maintain a working library that the AI Collective and staff can pull from.
• Value Measurement: Define a measurable target for every engagement before the work starts. Track it through delivery and report results.
• Responsible Deployment: Work inside the Association’s Responsible AI guidelines, data handling standards, and information security requirements.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Maintain a close working relationship with the Director of AI Platform Operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in work that required understanding how a process actually runs and then changing it.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, automations, or tools that real people adopted and continued using.
• Working fluency with Claude or a comparable enterprise AI platform.
• Comfort working with APIs, connectors, and structured data.
• A clear understanding of what separates a prototype from a production system.
• Ability to teach while building, so that the people you build for can maintain and extend the work.
• Strong written and verbal communication with non-technical staff.
• Comfort operating in a role with no established playbook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Claude Code, Claude Cowork, MCP servers, or comparable agent development frameworks.
• Experience delivering AI or automation work inside a large, matrixed organization.
• Background in one or more of the areas the Association works in: scientific research, public policy and advocacy, healthcare, fundraising, or field and volunteer operations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday, or CXone.
• Prior nonprofit sector experience.
• Experience documenting and scaling a solution beyond the team it was built for.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Granular Curiosity: Wants to know what someone clicks on at 9:15 on a Tuesday.
• Bias Toward Building: Prefers to show a working prototype rather than present a polished plan.
• Teaching Instinct: Builds with people rather than for them.
• Judgment on Where to Stop: Recognizes when a process should stay human.
• Plain Language: Explains technical decisions to various stakeholders without changing the substance.

Physical & Practical Requirements

• Ability to work at a computer for extended periods.
• Occasional evening or weekend availability during active sprints or at handoff.
• Travel up to 15% to work on site with teams.
• Ability to facilitate working sessions with groups of varying sizes.

Location

US Remote

Work Schedule

Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Reports To

Sr. Director, AI + Digital Transformation

Position Grade & Compensation

Grade 512. The Alzheimer’s Association’s good faith expectation for the salary range for this role is $155,000-$168,000. This position is eligible for a bonus based on both individual and organizational performance, up to 6%.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision.
• Flex accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance, long term care insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement, generous Paid Time Off, and 12 annual holidays.
• Paid Family Leave, an annual Cultural & Heritage Day, and Volunteer Day.
• Gold standard 401(k) retirement plan.