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AI Strategy & Implementation Lead
Location: While this role is remote, this role requires the candidate to be located in the the PT or MT area in the US. No exceptions.
About Frontline Wildfire Defense
Founded in 2017, Frontline developed the first fully integrated wildfire defense system to stop the leading cause of home loss in wildfires: ember-driven ignition. The system combines exterior sprinklers, full-coverage design, and connected software for remote monitoring and response, allowing homes to protect themselves long after families evacuate or infrastructure fails.
Proven effective during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, 96% of homes with Frontline systems survived. That success has earned top industry recognition, including Frontline being recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 in the Green Tech category and receiving the PCBC Gold Nugget Award for “Most Innovative Housing Concept” and the Best of IBS Award for “Best Home Technology.”
As wildfires grow hotter and more frequent, our vision is to give people the tools and strategies to live safely with fire. We’re building a mission-driven team creating real-world solutions in wildfire safety and climate tech.
About This Opportunity
As the AI Strategy & Implementations Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving Frontline's AI strategy, implementation, and operational transformation initiatives. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you will partner closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, and implement AI solutions that improve efficiency, decision-making, scalability, and business performance across the organization.
While an initial AI roadmap may be established with external partners, this individual will ultimately own the execution of AI initiatives and continuously identify new opportunities where AI can create measurable business value. You will serve as the bridge between business needs and AI capabilities, ensuring successful adoption across teams while building scalable processes that support Frontline's continued growth.
This role requires a unique combination of strategic thinking, operational leadership, and hands-on execution. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable evaluating business challenges, designing AI-enabled solutions, implementing modern AI tools and workflows, and driving organizational adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- AI Strategy & Execution: Lead the implementation and operationalization of generative AI, agentic AI, automation, and workflow optimization initiatives across the organization, ensuring measurable business impact.
- Opportunity Identification & Prioritization: Partner with leaders across departments to identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI opportunities that improve efficiency, productivity, customer experience, and decision-making.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with operations, sales, customer success, marketing, product, finance, and leadership teams to understand business challenges and develop practical AI-driven solutions.
- AI Adoption & Change Management: Drive successful adoption of AI tools and workflows through training, enablement, communication, and ongoing support, ensuring teams realize measurable value from AI investments.
- Process Optimization: Analyze existing business processes and recommend AI-powered improvements that streamline operations, eliminate manual work, and increase organizational effectiveness.
- Solution Implementation: Lead the evaluation, configuration, deployment, and optimization of AI platforms, tools, agents, and automations that support business objectives.
- Performance Measurement: Establish success metrics and continuously monitor AI initiatives to ensure adoption, effectiveness, and ROI while identifying opportunities for further improvement.
- Strategic Planning: Partner with executive leadership to align AI initiatives with long-term business objectives and operational priorities.
- Vendor Management: Evaluate and manage relationships with AI technology vendors and consultants, ensuring solutions align with Frontline's goals and deliver business value.
- AI Governance & Best Practices: Develop scalable frameworks, processes, and best practices for responsible and effective AI usage across the organization.
Qualifications
Must-Have:
- Experience: Minimum of 5–7 years of experience leading business transformation, operations, technology implementation, AI initiatives, or process improvement programs, with a proven track record of delivering measurable business results.
- AI Implementation Experience: Demonstrated experience personally leading or implementing AI, automation, generative AI, or workflow optimization initiatives within an organization.
- Startup Experience Preferred: Experience working in a high-growth startup environment where adaptability, rapid problem-solving, and operational ownership are critical.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations, or a related field. Advanced degrees or AI-related certifications are a plus.
- Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including generative AI, large language models (LLMs), AI agents, workflow automation, and emerging AI tools.
- Hands-on experience evaluating, implementing, and optimizing AI platforms and business workflows to improve organizational performance.
- Demonstrated ability to identify business problems, evaluate potential AI solutions, prioritize opportunities, and execute against a roadmap.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership Potential: Proven ability to influence stakeholders, lead cross-functional initiatives, drive organizational change, and build alignment across teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution in a fast-paced environment.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience implementing AI solutions across multiple business functions such as sales, marketing, operations, customer success, finance, or HR.
- Experience with AI-driven workflow automation platforms, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, or no-code/low-code automation tools.
- Familiarity with change management methodologies and organizational adoption strategies.
- Experience evaluating ROI, business cases, and success metrics for AI investments.
- Exposure to climate tech, proptech, SaaS, or technology-enabled services businesses.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary: $150k to $190k DOE + Bonuses + Equity Options
- Company-provided cell phone and laptop
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Flexible time off + 14 paid holidays (yes, your birthday is one of them!)
- Remote-First work environment, offering autonomy and flexibility
- Work-from-home stipend to support your remote setup
- Join a high-performing, mission-driven team doing work that truly matters
- And much more!
Join Our Mission!
If you're excited about designing innovative wildfire defense systems that help protect homes and communities, we want to hear from you! Apply today and become part of a fast-growing team with purpose and innovation at its core.
Diversity and inclusion are essential values at Frontline. We know we'll do our best and most impactful work when we feel we're represented, and we belong. We encourage talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Pay: $130,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Have you worked in a startup or high-growth environment where you were expected to move quickly and operate cross-functionally? If so, for which company(s)?
- While remote, this role requires the candidate to be located in the PT or MT zones in the US. Where are you permanently located?
- Are you in any of the following industries? If so, at which company(s)? If not, what industry have you worked in?: IoT / smart home / building systems Industrial automation / robotics Energy / utilities / climate tech Security systems / monitoring systems PropTech / construction tech with sensors or field systems
- Have you personally led any AI, automation, or workflow optimization initiatives end-to-end? If yes, for which company(s)?
- Which AI tools, platforms, or frameworks have you directly configured or implemented yourself (not through vendors or teams), and what exactly did you build or deploy?
- What’s your approach to identifying and prioritizing AI opportunities within a non-technical operations team (e.g., sales, finance, or customer success)?
- How have you measured the success or ROI of an AI or automation initiative you’ve implemented? What metrics did you use and what was the outcome?
Work Location: Remote
