[Hiring] Senior Strategist @Robots and Pencils

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Business Analyst to lead strategy and discovery work end-to-end across complex client engagements. This role is ideal for an experienced analyst and strategist who can independently own the full arc of an engagement — from framing the problem through delivering a clear, actionable plan — while building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.

In this role, you will work as the lead analyst on a cross-functional team, driving discovery, shaping recommendations, and facilitating high-impact client sessions that turn ambiguity into direction. You'll collaborate closely with strategists, designers, engineers, and delivery leads, and bring the experience and judgment to navigate complexity, competing priorities, and high-stakes decisions with confidence.

What You’ll Do

• Craft & Delivery
  • Lead AI and digital strategy engagements end-to-end, from opportunity discovery and problem framing through prioritization, roadmap creation, and pilot planning.
  • Map customer journeys, operational workflows, and decision points to identify where automation, AI, and digital solutions create measurable business lift.
  • Build and present compelling business cases that quantify value, define KPIs, and align executive and operational stakeholders on what success looks like.
  • Produce lightweight prototypes, agent demonstrations, and proof-of-concept experiences that make strategy tangible and testable for clients.
  • Partner with client SMEs to encode institutional knowledge into AI-ready assets including prompt libraries, evaluation examples, and retrieval corpora.
  • Define practical governance frameworks aligned to the client's risk posture covering responsible AI principles, privacy, human-in-the-loop controls, and escalation paths.
  • Shrink feedback loops by testing ideas early with real users and operational teams, iterating based on evidence rather than assumptions.
  • Translate between business and technical teams, ensuring strategy connects cleanly to delivery across design, data, engineering, and change management.
  • Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma AI — and agentic frameworks where relevant — to move faster than traditional consulting cycles.
• Collaboration & Communication
  • Independently lead high-impact client sessions including executive briefings, ideation workshops, and process redesign sprints that move groups from ambiguity to a shared plan.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, serving as a reliable, consultative partner throughout the engagement.
  • Communicate complex findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Leadership & Influence
  • Lead prioritization and scoping decisions by balancing business value, feasibility, risk, and delivery timelines.
  • Frame every engagement in terms of outcomes and impact, pushing back on solution-first thinking where needed.
  • Begin mentoring junior analysts, sharing knowledge and supporting their growth in craft and client skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, management consulting, product strategy, or a related role.
• Deep understanding of AI concepts including LLMs, RAG, copilots, agents, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery and strategy end-to-end including stakeholder interviews, journey mapping, opportunity sizing, prioritization, and roadmap creation.
• Experience creating executive-ready narratives and aligning senior stakeholders across business and IT.
• Strong applied experience with AI tools for strategy, prototyping, and productivity (e.g., Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Figma AI).
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, agent workflows, and lightweight AI prototyping.
• Experience independently facilitating workshops and working sessions that move groups to clarity quickly.
• Practical understanding of what it takes to move from pilot to scale including data readiness, change management, adoption, and governance.
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, AWS Strands).
• Experience in a consulting or client-facing environment is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off.
• Medical/dental/vision insurance.
• 401(k) to eligible employees.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $130,000 USD - $155,000 USD. The salary range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $170,000 CAD.

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