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Executive Innovation Lead, AI Transformation

San FranciscoFull-time2026-07-22 → 2026-11-08

Core

Lead high-impact innovation engagements with CEOs and senior leadership teams to explore AI opportunities, facilitate executive workshops, and turn insights into clear innovation directions and action plans.

Role type

Senior individual-contributor strategy and innovation lead

Builds

Executive narratives, opportunity portfolios, roadmaps, near-term experiments, and reusable innovation methods

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Organizational Transformation

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Executive facilitation, strategic judgment, creative thinking, workshop design, pattern recognition, narrative building, cross-functional leadership, ambiguity management, prototyping guidance

Preferred skills

Innovation consulting, design strategy, service design, customer strategy, futures thinking, scenario planning, venture building, organizational transformation, qualitative research, executive education

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Lead innovation engagements with CEOs and senior leaders; Help customers identify AI opportunities for new products, services, and business models; Design and facilitate executive workshops; Turn broad ambitions into focused innovation questions; Partner with researchers to uncover unmet needs; Guide designers and prototypers in making concepts tangible; Connect ideas to business impact and technical feasibility; Lead multidisciplinary pods; Build executive narratives and roadmaps; Create conditions for productive disagreement; Turn lessons into reusable methods

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC