ABOUT OCCULYTICSOcculytics is building the infrastructure for action the senior living industry.
We partner with operators and investors to turn fragmented data into systems that drive occupancy, pricing, and growth. Our work goes beyond dashboards. We design end-to-end data and decision platforms used across portfolios.
We're a fast-growing company operating at the intersection of data, analytics, and real-world operations in a large, underserved market.
THE ROLEWe're hiring a Data & AI Delivery Lead to help scale our consulting practice and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients. You'll take engagements once they're scoped and own them from kickoff through completion: working closely with leadership and engineering teams to drive execution, manage client relationships, anticipate risk, and ensure every commitment lands on time or ahead of schedule.
This is a client-facing role where you'll turn complex data and AI initiatives into outcomes operators, investors, and executives can understand, trust, and act on.
WHAT YOU'LL DODelivery Leadership- Own delivery across multiple client engagements from kickoff through close
- Keep delivery anchored to the client's objectives. Ensure the team understands what we're building, why it matters, and what success looks like
- Lead client and internal meetings. Set the agenda, drive decisions, and own the follow-through
- Take a scoped engagement and turn it into an executable delivery plan. Manage timelines, dependencies, and evolving requirements, and keep the team aligned
- Proactively identify delivery risks, manage scope, and make sure clients always understand where things stand
- Manage vendors and delivery partners. Keep their work on scope, on time, and to standard
- Use AI agents to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and rethink how work gets done
- Contribute to building standardized, repeatable approaches as we scale
Delivery Quality- Translate complex technical work into business-friendly deliverables that answer the actual question a client is asking
- Hold the quality bar on what ships. Make sure the output is clear, correct, and decision-ready, not just complete
- Run hands-on validation. Spot-check data, sanity-check KPIs, and test agent outputs
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR- 2+ years of experience delivering data, analytics, or AI projects, with a track record of successfully managing complex client-facing engagements
- Working familiarity with modern data and analytics workflows, from ingestion through modeling to BI. You've partnered closely with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and technical teams to deliver successful outcomes
- A strong communicator, in writing and in person. You can lead a room and push back with a client when it matters
- Clear, practical experience using AI agents to optimize delivery
- A disciplined project manager with strong planning and scope control
- Experience managing vendors or delivery partners
- Curious about the client's business. Eager to learn how senior living communities operate
- Consulting or client-services experience is highly preferred, but not required
WHO SUCCEEDS HEREYou'll thrive here if you:
- Love bringing order to complex, multi-workstream client work
- Enjoy earning the trust of executives, operators, and investors
- Can switch comfortably between a project plan, a SQL query, and a board-ready presentation
- Care as much about how work is delivered as what gets delivered
- Want to help build the delivery engine of a fast-growing analytics and AI company
COMPENSATION- Base: $110,000
- Bonus: 15-20%
- Equity: Available
- Location: Chicago strongly preferred
- Relocation assistance available
WHY THIS ROLE- High ownership, low bureaucracy
- Work on real problems with direct business impact
You will be a key face of delivery for a company clients are coming to rely on, working directly with company leadership and client stakeholders.
Occulytics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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