# Applied AI Strategist, New Ventures

**Company:** [Valon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/valon)
**Location:** Washington, DC
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $127k – $240k/yr
**Skills:** Llm Orchestration, Ai Agent Workflows, Ai Automations, APIs, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, LangChain, Crewai, Llamaindex, Python
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Leads AI transformation engagements onsite with clients in regulated finance, converting vague AI needs into execution plans and building/shipping agent workflows and tools. Owns outcomes, manages change, and captures industry insights for platform evolution. Requires hands-on AI building experience and structured thinking in ambiguity.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Run the engagement end to end, owning client relationship, execution plan, and outcomes.
- Turn ambiguity into action by decomposing client needs into sequenced initiatives with owners, dependencies, milestones, and success metrics, then execute.
- Build AI solutions independently: design and build agent workflows, automations, and AI-powered tools; prototype, test, and ship.
- Manage organizational change, navigate resistance, address fears, and build trust with operators and executives.
- Capture and document learnings from engagements to inform product strategy.
- Shape the new function: define operating model, engagement playbook, hiring criteria.

## What We're Looking For
- Led complex, ambiguous initiatives end to end.
- Build with AI: fluent in LLM orchestration, agent workflows, automations; evaluate and implement solutions (agent, workflow, fine-tuned model, prompt chain).
- Structured thinker who operates in chaos, decomposes problems into plans.
- Credible with executives and operators, manages senior stakeholders.
- Thrives in ambiguity, wants to build something new.

**Backgrounds that fit:** Forward-deployed engineers/strategists (Palantir, Anduril, Scale AI), MBB digital/AI consultants who build, technical founders/early operators at B2B startups, PMs at AI-native companies, independent AI builders, technical program managers/Chiefs of Staff who build.

## Compensation
Competitive salary of $127,000-$240,000 plus equity and 401k.

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