AI Strategist - Healthcare

We are seeking strategic and technically fluent AI Strategists to lead ideation and planning within a structured AI innovation environment. This role is central to enabling scalable, outcome-driven experimentation and delivery of AI solutions across diverse business domains. The AI Strategist works cross-functionally to identify high-impact opportunities, define use cases, and guide prototypes and pilots through the innovation funnel-from intake to operationalization.

Job Overview:

The AI Strategist operates at the intersection of business strategy, emerging technology, and delivery execution. They are responsible for translating enterprise goals into actionable AI initiatives, framing problems, prioritizing opportunities, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead intake and ideation sessions to identify AI opportunities across departments, using structured frameworks and AI-powered assistants.
• Frame problems and define use cases aligned with strategic goals, regulatory drivers, and operational pain points.
• Conceive and define AI-Driven business solutions, experiences, and use cases.
• Scope and plan prototypes and pilots using accelerated modeling and innovation frameworks, ensuring feasibility, desirability, and viability.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers, Product Owners, Cloud Architects, and SMEs to ensure technical feasibility and business alignment.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops to guide teams through empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test phases.
• Support stakeholder demos to validate and refine solution concepts.
• Prioritize initiatives using ICE scoring (Impact, Confidence, Ease) and business value mapping.
• Develop use case portfolios, product backlogs, and roadmaps for AI-driven solutions
• Define success metrics and KPIs, for example velocity gain, cost reduction, and adoption rates.
• Ensure alignment to responsible AI and governance standards.
• Ensure knowledge capture and best practice sharing across experiments to reduce duplication and accelerate learning.
• Business case development and outcome measurement for pilots.
• Maintain alignment with compliance, regulatory, and audit requirements throughout the AI lifecycle.

QUALIFICATIONS

Industry Domain Expertise

Candidates must bring deep domain knowledge in at least one of the following industries or functions as a foundation for this role:

• Healthcare: Member engagement, claims triage, predictive prior authorization, wellness agents, provider network optimization.
• Financial Services: Banking, wealth management, lending, risk assessment agents, proposal automation, regulatory readiness.
• Manufacturing and Automotive: Dealer and distributor channel management, predictive maintenance, connected systems, operational optimization.
• Communications / Media / Technology: Content personalization, workflow automation, digital experience enhancement.
• Sales and Marketing: Brand activation, lead management, customer acquisition, revenue generation, customer loyalty
• Finance and Accounting: Financial close and consolidation, planning and forecasting profitability and cost management, forecasting and sensitivity analysis
• Supply Chain: Inventory and materials management, demand planning, strategic sourcing and spend control

Tools & Platforms

• AI Platforms: WRITER, Salesforce, Pega
• AI Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, N8N, Haystack, AgentSpace
• Cloud Platforms: Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI
• Collaboration & Design: Miro, Confluence, SharePoint, Adobe Firefly
• Data & Storage: Postgres, Supabase, Pinecone, FAISS
• Prompt Engineering & Governance: Portkey, Model-Context Protocol (MCP)
• Project Management: JIRA, GitHub

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years in digital transformation roles.
• Proven experience delivering AI initiatives in regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, agentic workflows, and experimentation methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with facilitation, requirements elicitation, design thinking, agile delivery, and outcome measurement.
• Experience with business process modeling, user journey mapping, and value stream analysis

Engagement Impact

This role supports the creation of a safe, structured path for AI enablement, where every idea is tested and the best ones reshape how the organization works. The AI Strategist helps drive:

• Increased experimentation throughput
• Faster time-to-value for AI pilots
• Broader departmental adoption of AI
• Measurable business outcomes across cost, quality, and velocity

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $92,118 to $202,730. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential variable compensation. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in this overview.

WHO WE ARE

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers' expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients - the world's largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you'll become part of something truly special.

We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We're committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders... and we're not done yet.

Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.

Disability Accommodations:

Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.

Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.

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ABOUT US

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We're a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we're transforming the world's largest enterprises and biggest brands. You'll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, experience work-life balance, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

ABOUT THE TEAM

We deliver strategy for the real world. Our team of elite digital strategists and enterprise architects develop customer and market insights, drive thought leadership, create winning strategies that unify and scale, and provide actionable plans to transform clients' businesses.