Director, Strategic Projects AI

Solovis is a leading portfolio management and analytics platform helping institutional investors navigate today's complex global markets with clarity and confidence. Backed by Insight Partners, we're building the next chapter of growth by investing in people and product to raise the bar on quality and client outcomes. Our team is driven by culture and disciplined execution, humility, and curiosity - where AI is at the core of how we operate, innovate, and serve clients. At Solovis, you'll join a tech-forward, growth-minded team that believes in learning fast, thinking big, and delivering meaningful impact for asset owners worldwide.

About this role

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Solovis is investing in AI as a lever to change how the company operates and does business, and that change requires leadership that can move from problem to proven value. The Director, Strategic Projects AI partners with senior leadership to deliver transformation projects of strategic importance to the company. This individual combines a deep understanding of the business with hands-on command of what AI can actually do, and owns each initiative end to end: from root cause diagnosis through solution design, build, implementation, and value capture.

### Key responsibilities

* Partner with senior leadership on transformation projects of strategic importance to the company. * Lead solutions end to end: design, construction, implementation, and value capture. * Rapidly prototype applications and tooling to validate the impact of a solution, then drive the production deployment. * Define clear metrics that evaluate impact and prove the value of each solution. * Drive AI adoption across the organization and serve as a visible example of what the technology makes possible. ### Key qualities

* Operates with a high degree of autonomy and drives initiatives to completion without close oversight * Capability to guide and influence stakeholders and team members to achieve company goals. * Decisive under ambiguity, with a habit of grounding recommendations in facts and data. * Learns fast and stays current with AI capabilities as they evolve, applying judgment about what is real and what is hype * Communicates with clarity and concision, adapting to technical and non-technical audiences up to the executive level. ### Skills

* Hands-on, current experience building with AI: large language model APIs, agent and automation workflows, and rapid application prototyping, whether in code or low-code tools. * Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a technology or SaaS environment, from problem definition through measurable business outcomes. * Structured problem-solving skills developed in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, transformation, or an equivalent operating role, with comfort engaging executives on business problems. * Technical acumen sufficient to engage credibly with engineering and product teams. * Experience taking a prototype into production in partnership with engineering teams, including the tradeoffs of scaling, security, and maintainability. * Proficiency in data analysis, with the ability to establish baselines, quantify impact, and translate findings into decisions and recommendations ### Requirements

* Ability to build and prototype using AI.