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title: 'AI Strategist at Distyl AI'
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# AI Strategist at Distyl AI

- **Company:** Distyl AI
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/distyl/d6703c85-b399-475b-8bf7-d40c7b50ad39

## Job description

## About Distyl AI

Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.

We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.

Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s.

## What We Are Looking For

As an AI Strategist, you'll be the project lead on customer engagements — pairing with a technical lead to drive teams of engineers and researchers toward solving the problems that matter most to our clients. You own business outcomes. You earn trust. You see engagements through from the first discovery conversation to measurable, lasting impact.

As our first hire in London, you'll also play a meaningful role in shaping how Distyl shows up in the UK market. This role requires a curious and analytical approach, the ability to identify valuable problems to solve, strong product instincts, and a deep commitment to customer success.

## Key Responsibilities

- Earn Customer Trust: You'll be Distyl's primary relationship owner — credible with end-users, compelling with C-suite stakeholders, and trusted by both
- Own Engagements End-to-End: You'll start by getting to grips with a customer's world — their workflows, their pain points, the gap between where they are and where they want to be. You'll identify where AI can make a genuine difference, scope a meaningful project, and lead your team to deliver it with precision. Delivery isn't the finish line; adoption and impact are
- Lead Cross-Functional Teams: Working alongside a technical lead, you'll direct engineers and researchers to move fast and stay focused. You'll keep the team anchored to outcomes, not just outputs
- Navigate Enterprise Data: Real enterprise data is messy. You'll know how to find the signal, understand the constraints, and design for reliability — not just accuracy in ideal conditions
- Drive User Adoption: Getting a system built is one thing. Getting people to use it, trust it, and rely on it is another. You'll own that challenge — onboarding users, gathering feedback, and iterating until the product genuinely earns its place in their workflow
- Feed the Product Roadmap: You're on the front lines. You'll surface what customers actually need, translating real-world friction into product improvements that make Distyl better for everyone

## Who You Are

- Experienced in complex, client-facing work: You've led projects, managed stakeholders, and delivered results in AI, technology consulting, or a fast-moving enterprise environment.
- A strong communicator: You can hold a room with a CTO and sit down with an ops team to understand their daily frustrations. You adapt without losing your point of view.
- Genuinely curious about how things work: You embed yourself in customer workflows until you understand them better than the people doing them. You ask the second and third question, not just the first
- Comfortable with ambiguity: You can walk into a complex situation, cut through the noise, identify what actually matters, and build a path forward
- Optimistic about AI: Not naively, but with a grounded belief that applied AI can genuinely transform how organisations work, and the drive to prove it
- Technical enough to be dangerous: You're comfortable with Python, SQL, or similar tools. You don't need to be an engineer, but you need to be able to work shoulder-to-shoulder with one
- Willing to travel: Expect 25–75% travel, varying by engagement

## What We Offer

- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and a comprehensive benefits package
- Workplace Pension Scheme with employer contributions
- Private Medical Insurance (PMI) offered
- Flexible Time Off + Holidays
- Lunch provided on office days
- Access to state-of-the-art models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real-world business problems
- Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises
- A mission-driven, fast-moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence

#LI-Hybrid

We believe diverse perspectives make our work stronger and more impactful. We are an equal opportunity employer and evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

## About Distyl AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Distyl AI partners with world-class institutions to rearchitect their operational systems for abundant intelligence, deploying AI-native workflows at production scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Arjun Prakash (Co-Founder, CEO) and Derek Ho (Co-Founder, COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-Native Operations / Enterprise AI
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises and institutions in regulated industries (Fortune 500 companies), specifically financial services, healthcare, telecom, insurance, manufacturing, and retail.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To help world institutions rearchitect their systems for abundant intelligence without sacrificing human agency and control.

## Products & Services
- **Distillery (Proprietary Platform)**: An agentic infrastructure platform that curates context from across the enterprise, enabling composable routines, policy-aware execution, and built-in auditability. It integrates with existing enterprise systems to allow for autonomous workflows.
- **Distyl Scans**: A service offering that provides enterprises with an “AI Readiness” score and a roadmap for adopting AI-driven technologies by surveying KPIs, business processes, data landscape, and tech stack.
- **AI-Native Workflows**: Custom, full-stack solutions deployed for specific industries, including intelligent underwriting, claims processing, prior authorization automation, and contact center intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Total Funding**: $202 million (across 3 rounds: Seed, Series A, Series B).
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.0 million (per LinkedIn).
    - **Decisions Processed**: Over 1 billion decisions processed annually at production scale.
    - **Deployments**: 50+ enterprise deployments across Fortune 500 companies.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (led Series A & B), Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, OpenAI, Microsoft.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Massive Headcount Growth**: 117 employees (+101.3% YoY, +77 people) as of recent data.
    - **Latest Funding**: Raised a $175 million Series B in October 2025.
    - **Industry Reach**: Active production deployments across 12 industries.
    - **Talent Pipeline**: Strong hiring from top-tier companies like Palantir, McKinsey, Amazon, and Microsoft.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome Ownership**: Unlike a pure software vendor or consultancy, Distyl takes "Relentless Outcome Ownership," deploying solutions and managing them in production to ensure EBITDA impact within 6 months.
- **Full-Stack AI**: They combine strategy, research, and engineering to build and deploy production-grade systems, not just demos or proofs-of-concept.
- **Built for Regulated Industries**: Their platform is designed with dynamic guardrails and auditability, making them a trusted partner for sectors like healthcare and finance where compliance is non-negotiable.
- **Strong Backing**: Backed by a consortium of top-tier venture capital firms and strategic investors like OpenAI and Microsoft, providing deep resources and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Defining the AI-Native Enterprise**: Distyl is focused on building the systems, workflows, and operational models that will define how large enterprises operate in the age of AI.
- **Agentic Systems at Scale**: Their current priority is deploying agentic systems that are practical, auditable, and safe, moving beyond simple automation to complex decision-making.
- **Industry Expansion**: With deployments in 12 industries, they are aggressively expanding their footprint in financial services, healthcare, and telecom, while also targeting supply chain and insurance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Work Style**: Described as fast-paced and outcome-oriented. The company values "relentless curiosity," direct feedback ("no ego-stroking"), and a bias for shipping real solutions. The work is described as defining the future of enterprise AI.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: For all engineering roles and most other roles, the company requires in-office collaboration **3 days a week** in either San Francisco or New York City. They also have a London office.
- **Benefits & Perks**:
    - **Health & Wellness**: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents. 8 weeks of parental leave. Flexible PTO.
    - **Compensation**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Retirement plans. Life and disability insurance.
    - **Additional**: Relocation support for moves over 100 miles. Daily meals and snacks in-office. Commuter benefits.
- **Engineering & Research Focus**: The interview process is practical, featuring collaborative live coding and system design discussions, and the use of AI is encouraged during interviews. They hire people who "make AI work better than anyone else."

## Sources
1. [distyl.ai](https://www.distyl.ai/)
2. [distyl.ai - About](https://www.distyl.ai/about)
3. [distyl.ai - Careers](https://www.distyl.ai/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Distyl AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/distylai)
5. [CB Insights - Distyl](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/distyl-ai)

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