Open position · Full-time · Helsinki
AI Strategist
Turn AI ambition into concrete, measurable change – and help shape a company from its first year.
Who we are
At AIRI Works, we help Nordic enterprises rethink how their business works with AI: their processes, roles and decisions. We build the operating system that makes organisations AI-native, designed by us and built together with the engineers at Witted.
We’re a new company founded by four experienced partners, and we work with large companies in Finland and Norway. We’re looking for an AI strategist who can turn ambition into concrete, measurable change, and who wants to help shape a company from its first year.
The role
You’ll work directly with client leadership and our AIRI Works team to understand where value is created and lost, identify where AI can make a meaningful difference, and shape the changes that take organisations from scattered pilots to AI-native ways of working.
This is a hands-on role, not a slide-writing one. Our engagements are concrete: a workflow sprint that improves one process within weeks, an audit of why AI isn’t scaling, or a business case that settles a debate in the executive team. Your job is to make those first engagements succeed, and then grow them into broader programmes that change how the whole organisation works.
You should be comfortable finding where value is lost across an organisation, building business cases a CFO will accept, and designing how roles, decisions and governance change when AI becomes part of everyday work. You’ll help clients decide what to do first, what to stop, and what it takes to move from a promising pilot to everyday use across the organisation.
What you’ll work on
- Programme leadership: lead AI programmes with client leadership, from priorities to measured results, and expand them to new functions as they succeed.
- Process development: redesign core business processes end to end with AI, together with process owners: how work flows, where AI and agents take over, where people decide, and how performance is measured.
- Value and priorities: identify where AI creates the most value, decide what to do first, and build business cases covering savings, productivity, risks and investment.
- Operating model and governance: define how AI is owned, governed and prioritised, and how decision rights change, so AI changes how the organisation works, not just single tasks.
- Roles and skills: redesign roles, plan how competences change, and help people move into new ways of working.
- Work in pairs: work with our Forward Deployed Engineers, who build and test what you design, and with Witted’s engineers for scaled delivery.
- Building AIRI Works: develop our methods and reusable assets, contribute to the thought leadership, and help shape how we operate.
What you bring
You have several years of experience in management consulting, business development or operational roles, and you’ve seen AI work in practice, not just on slides. You can take a vague ambition, ask sharp questions and turn it into a clear plan with measurable outcomes.
You understand how large organisations make decisions and where change gets stuck. You’re comfortable with numbers and business cases. You know enough about AI, data and technology to have credible conversations with both business leaders and engineers, and you use AI tools in your own work every day.
You enjoy working directly with clients. You can challenge senior leaders with confidence, listen to the people doing the work, and keep things practical as you learn what works.
It’s a plus if you have
- Experience from finance, operations, software development or another function where AI is changing the work fast.
- Experience of strategic workforce planning, competence mapping or redesigning roles.
- Experience of selling and growing client relationships, or the ambition to learn.
- Fluent Finnish, plus English. Norwegian or Swedish is a bonus.
What we offer
- The chance to shape a new company from the start, working closely with its four founding partners.
- Work that goes beyond advice: you’ll see your designs built and used.
- Close collaboration with Witted’s engineers and data specialists.
- Clients among the largest companies in Finland and Norway.
- Room to develop our methods, assets and offering as we grow.
Interested?
Send us your CV or LinkedIn profile and tell us briefly why the role interests you.
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