--- title: 'AI Solutions Manager at Andela' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-solutions-manager-andela-north-f9ks3r3pt880' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # AI Solutions Manager at Andela - **Company:** Andela - **Location:** North, United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-12-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/andela/16a17f6a-36fb-4b7a-858e-3f1da7b68b1f ## Job description AI Solutions Manager About Andela: At Andela, we know brilliance is evenly distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. For over 10 years, Andela has connected its customers with top global, remote technical talent from over 135 countries with the majority residing in emerging markets like Africa and Latin America. As one of the world’s largest talent marketplaces, Andela gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy qualified technologists. With talent highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and much more, customers experience 33% faster project delivery. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, is the industry’s only unified platform managing the complete global talent lifecycle and enables customers to fill individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster. Andela is on the precipice of two breakout industry transformations: one in staffing/hiring and the other in software development, both accelerated by generative AI. Are you an exceptional, hungry leader seasoned in scaling businesses through transformation and growth? Join us and change the world. Job Summary: The AI Solution Manager drives the strategy and commercialization of assigned AI solutions, transforming custom programs into scalable, high-margin Solution Packages. This is a strategic and commercial role combining product management, go-to-market, and partnerships, requiring strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and technical fluency. Exceptional Leadership: As an Andelan, you’ll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you. - Low ego, low drama, servant leader: You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea. - One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone. - Great listener, hungry for feedback: You’re always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen. - Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you. - Player-coach: You fly high (create strategy) AND low (know the details that matter). You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this proactively collaborating with your team while actively engaging in important details. - Business problem solver: You’re not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems. Key Responsibilities (by weight): - Solution Strategy & IP Development (40%): Design scalable Solution Packages (50-70%+ margin, outcome-based), define roadmaps, capture IP/build playbooks for 10X faster deployment, and define solution scope/success criteria. - Commercialization & Go-to-Market (40%): Create sales enablement (battle cards, ROI calculators, training), design pricing (T&M → outcome-based), define ICPs, support demand generation, and identify "lighthouse customers." - Partnerships & Ecosystem (20%): Identify and cultivate strategic technology (AWS, Databricks, LLM platforms) and SI (Accenture, Deloitte) partnerships; develop co-marketing/co-selling motions; represent Andela in thought leadership. Success Metrics: - 90 Days: Approved solution strategy, sales enablement complete, 2-3 lighthouse customers engaged. - 6 Months: First Solution Package (alpha) launched, $500K-$1M pipeline, 3-5 reference case studies, 1-2 partnerships activated. - 12 Months: Solution Package matured (beta/final), $2M-$5M revenue, 50-70%+ margins, solution becomes a competitive differentiator. Required Qualifications: - Experience: 8-12 years in solutions consulting, product management, or GTM, with 5+ years in B2B enterprise software/services. Proven 0-to-1 track record (strategy → packaging → commercialization → revenue). - Skills: Strategic, Commercial (pricing design), Sales Enablement, Executive Communication, Technical Fluency (moderate depth), and AI/ML Fundamentals (preferred). Preferred Qualifications: - Top-tier consulting or boutique firm experience. - Product management with full GTM responsibility. - Partnerships experience. - Startup/scale-up experience. - AI solutions expertise (LLM/RAG, ML platforms). ## #LI-REMOTE ## #LI-RDR ## About Andela ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Andela operates a global talent marketplace and AI workforce platform that connects certified technologists with enterprises for hiring, training, and building production AI systems. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, unicorn status at $1.5 billion valuation in June 2021) - **Headquarters**: Lagos, Nigeria (remote-first company with employees in 22+ countries) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Nadayar Enagesi, Brice Nkengsa, Ian Carnevale, and Christina Sass ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Talent marketplace, AI workforce solutions, technology training and upskilling - **Target customers**: B2B – global enterprises, scale-ups, and unicorns (Fortune 500 companies); also technologists seeking remote opportunities - **Mission or purpose statement**: "We connect brilliance with opportunity" and "unlock human potential at scale" [andela.com](https://www.andela.com/) ## Products & Services - **Andela Talent Cloud**: A unified platform to manage the complete global hiring lifecycle — sourcing, vetting, matching, and managing remote technologists. - **Training as a Service (TaaS)**: Continuous pipeline of AI engineer cohorts trained and assessed to build, deploy, and operate production AI systems. Includes programs co-designed with partners like NVIDIA, Google, and GitHub. - **AI System Development**: Model alignment (fine-tuning, RLHF, optimization), data readiness (ingestion, annotation, governance), and production AI systems (agentic AI, LLMOps, RAG, observability). - **Upskilling for Enterprises**: Workforce training to reskill engineering teams for AI, covering LLM engineering, AI strategy, compliance, and leadership. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.5 billion (unicorn status achieved June 2021) [andela.com/about](https://www.andela.com/about) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $384 million (Series A: $10M, Series B: $24M, Series C: $80M total, Series D: $100M, Series E: $200M) [andela.com/about](https://www.andela.com/about) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Spark Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Generation Investment Management, Serena Ventures, Google, NVIDIA, GitHub - **Growth Signals**: - Network of 200,000+ technologists, 17,000 certified AI-native engineers, and 5.6M+ developers on Codewars platform - Served 650+ enterprise clients with global MSAs in 135+ countries - 300+ languages spoken in talent network - Appointed Carrol Chang as CEO in September 2024; leadership includes former Uber, Google Cloud, McKinsey executives ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary talent pipeline**: Codewars behavioral data from millions of developers combined with a certified community trained specifically for AI roles — a "human compute layer" competitors cannot easily replicate. - **Scale & diversity**: Talent in 135+ countries, 300+ languages, enabling linguistic and cultural coverage for global AI model training and deployment. - **Training partnerships**: Co-developed curricula with NVIDIA, Google, and GitHub ensure engineers are production-ready on emerging technologies. - **Full remote operating model**: Since February 2020, Andela has operated as a fully remote company, attracting top global talent and lowering overhead. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-first direction**: Andela is pivoting heavily toward AI workforce solutions — delivering quarterly cohorts of AI engineers, offering training as a service, and building the infrastructure (e.g., Agentic AI, RAG, LLMOps) enterprises need for production AI. - **Scaling the talent cloud**: Continue expanding the platform to manage hiring, training, and deployment of technical teams globally, with an emphasis on AI and cloud/DevOps. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Borderless opportunities" — fully remote roles, global team across 22+ countries; mission-driven with a focus on connecting brilliance with opportunity regardless of geography [enterprise.andela.com/careers](https://enterprise.andela.com/careers) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/andela) - **Remote/hybrid/office**: Fully remote (all roles) - **Notable perks**: equity compensation, generous paid time off, parental and compassionate leave, technology stipend (bring your own device), quarterly Forma wellness stipend, opportunity for growth and professional development - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI, emerging tech, and continuous learning; work with partners like Google and NVIDIA; opportunity to solve complex problems at scale for Fortune 500 clients. ## Sources 1. [andela.com](https://www.andela.com/) 2. [andela.com/about](https://www.andela.com/about) 3. [enterprise.andela.com/careers](https://enterprise.andela.com/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/andela](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/andela) 5. 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