Data & AI Strategist

What will be your role

The role of the Data & AI Strategist is to help companies evolve from being data-aware to becoming fully data-driven and AI-enabled. As companies increasingly shift their focus from traditional data use cases to advanced AI applications, your role is to define the right strategy and execution path together with the C-levels and key stakeholders of our customers.

You will integrate into the Data & AI Strategy team, playing a crucial role in helping customers leverage their data to achieve business objectives. You act as the bridge between business goals and technical execution, ensuring that data and AI investments drive tangible business value.

 

Your Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & AI Advisory

 

• Define Strategy: Collaborate with C-level executives to define robust data strategies and AI roadmaps that align with long-term business goals.
   

• Identify Data & AI Opportunities: Analyze existing value chains to identify high-impact opportunities where Data, Machine Learning, and Generative AI can solve complex business problems.
   

• Roadmapping: Prepare project roadmaps and trajectory reports in collaboration with business stakeholders and internal technical teams.
   

• Trend Analysis: Stay ahead of the latest trends in Cloud BI, Data Analytics, and AI to advise clients on how these technologies can enhance business performance.

 

Execution & Collaboration

 

• Facilitate Workshops: Lead client workshops, brainstorming sessions, and meetings to gather requirements, define success criteria, and validate proposed data and AI solutions.
   

• Bridge the Gap: Work alongside our Data Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Change Managers to ensure the defined strategy is technically feasible and executed correctly.
   

• Requirements Translation: Translate high-level business requirements into clear user stories and functional specifications for technical teams.
   

• Value Communication: Create storytelling presentations that demonstrate the business value of implemented data and AI solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

What we look for

 

• Experience: 4+ years of experience as a Business/Functional Analyst, Data Strategist, Project & Change Manager, or Consultant with a focus on data-related projects (Data Warehouse, Machine Learning, Cloud Solutions).
   

• Strategic Mindset: Proven track record of working with longer sales/project cycles and managing international stakeholders.
   

• Tech Savvy: You are not necessarily a Cloud Architect or Data Engineer by background, but you have a "helicopter understanding" of how data functions, how cloud platforms work (GCP, Azure, AWS), and the lifecycle of AI projects.
   

• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to analyze business processes and map them to technical data solutions.
   

• Communication: Excellent client-facing skills with a talent for storytelling, problem-solving, and managing stakeholders at various organizational levels.
   

• Education: A Master's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field is preferred.
   

• Location: You are based in The Netherlands, willing to commute to the Amsterdam area to our headquarters once a week, and to travel to our customers.
   

• Languages: You are fluent in both spoken and written English, Dutch in a business context is a plus.

Nice to haves

• Practical experience with data governance concepts and their impact on AI ethics and compliance.
   

• Experience supporting change management activities for technology transformation projects. Specifically PROSCI ADKAR methodologies.
   

• Practical experience with GCP (Bigquery, Looker, VertexAI, Gemini)

What we have to offer

• A permanent contract 

• A competitive salary package, in line with your profile & previous experiences, with annual holiday allowance and annual performance bonus.

• A competitive extra  Benefits  package that can include a company car, a phone allowance, a laptop, an internet allowance, a pension fund contribution and a budget for Dutch courses.

• A hybrid working environment with  4 weeks of working from abroad also possible.

• Continuous training & development of soft and hard skills, including training at several Google locations.

• An awesome dynamic team of colleagues & regular team building activities.

• A "Googley" well-equipped office in Amsterdam.

• An exciting job where innovation in technology is not a buzzword but a reality.

• The ability to work with the world’s leading companies in technology and innovation.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact us at [email protected]

A background check using publicly accessible information and social media can be part of the process.