The AI Lead Consultant is the analytical and commercial intelligence layer of every Greenlight AI engagement. You are not an engineer - you are the person who ensures the engineer builds the right thing. Working in a two-in-a-box model alongside a Forward Deployed Engineer, you own the what and the why of every automation initiative: why this process, what it should do, how success is measured, and what the business must look like after the AI agent is deployed.
The most common failure mode in enterprise AI is not a technology failure - it is a requirements failure. Engineers build exactly what they are asked to build, and what they are asked to build is often a precise replication of a broken process, wrapped in AI. The result: faster execution of the wrong workflow. This role is the structural safeguard against that outcome.
You will travel to client sites, run discovery workshops, challenge process assumptions, design the business logic that AI agents will execute, build the business case that justifies investment, and produce the requirements that the FDE builds against without ambiguity. You are client-facing, delivery-accountable, and commercially aware. This is not a back-office BA role.
Forward Deployed Engineer, Pre-Sales SE, AI Delivery Engagement Manager
Yes - C-suite, operations leaders, process owners, compliance stakeholders
Regular client travel required - discovery, workshops, executive readouts
Anthropic Claude (Cowork + Skills), Claude.ai, AI agent frameworks
Mid-to-Senior (3-5 years relevant experience)
Onshore Canada - GTA preferred
Hybrid - embedded onsite client delivery with remote phases
Every AI Practice engagement runs with two people who together form a complete delivery unit:
The what and why - process discovery, requirements, business case, stakeholder management, AI logic design
You define what gets built and why. The FDE builds it.
Forward Deployed Engineer
The how - AI agent architecture, build, MCP integration, production deployment
Translates your requirements into working software. Flags what is technically feasible before you commit to a client.