Senior Manager, AI Tools & Services

About the role

This is a player-coach role combining hands-on client advisory work, running scoping calls, making prescriptive AI recommendations, and owning category intelligence with direct management of a team.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI Tools & Services category within the BluWave Network, including category intelligence, provider curation, and quality standards
• Serve as the senior voice on client scoping calls; diagnose AI needs and deliver specific, defensible tool and service recommendations
• Build and maintain a best in class provider network: recruit, onboard, and manage AI service firms and software vendors relevant to PE-backed businesses
• Partner with BluWave’s Client Coverage and Marketing teams on demand generation, critical client opportunities and challenges, and category thought leadership
• Manage a direct report and utilize cutting edge AI resources for force multiplication
• Provide leadership on the future growth and development of BluWave’s AI powered network offerings

Requirements

• 8–13 years of experience in technology advisory, software selection, solutions engineering, or AI consulting (preference for 10–12 years)
• Proven ability to communicate with and advise senior decision-makers and drive alignment; can provide specific examples of guiding clients or stakeholders from options to a clear recommendation and commitment
• Deep, active fluency in the AI enablement and tools landscapes; regularly uses and evaluates AI tools and can speak to specific solutions implemented or recommended, including rationale and tradeoffs considered
• Strong diagnostic and advisory skills; able to quickly assess a client situation, identify where AI tools or services apply, and deliver a clear, actionable recommendation
• Strong ability to integrate the powers of AI with human intelligence to form a greater integrated value proposition for customers
• Expert ability to transform manual processes into automated, intelligent workflows

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical literacy with the ability to credibly evaluate vendor solutions, engage on implementation considerations, and ask the right questions on behalf of a buyer

Skills

• Fluent in the AI enablement and tools landscapes
• Ability to diagnose and advise on AI needs
• Expertise in transforming manual processes into automated workflows

Benefits

Based in Nashville, TN and prefer someone local or open to relocating. That said, we're open to remote for the right candidate — as long as you're based in one of the following states: CA, FL, IL, MA, ME, NC, NJ, NY, TN, TX, or WA.

Pay

Negotiable

Schedule

Full-time