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title: 'AI Strategist, Transformation at Obin AI'
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# AI Strategist, Transformation at Obin AI

- **Company:** Obin AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDqjmIA_9CYxCkTuj904JSuO

## Job description

## About Obin

Obin is the agentic workforce for regulated finance. We build AI agents that understand how each institution operates — its workflows, decision-making logic, edge cases, and regulatory requirements. We partner with leading financial institutions to reimagine critical workflows across insurance, private credit, and commercial lending. Obin was founded by Apoorv Saxena (former Global Head of AI at JPMorgan Chase, Managing Director at Silver Lake, and Head of Product for Cloud AI at Google) and Lak Lakshmanan (former Data & AI operating executive at Silver Lake and Head of Data Analytics & AI at Google). Our advisors include AI pioneers Fei-Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser. Today, Obin's solutions are in production at institutions representing more than $1 trillion in assets. We've been profitable since seed and are closing our Series A.

## About the Role

We're looking for an AI Strategist to help our enterprise customers reimagine how their businesses operate with AI. You'll work directly with business executives to understand their most important challenges, identify high-impact AI opportunities, and translate ambitious ideas into solutions that deliver measurable business value. You'll own opportunity discovery and solution scoping through development, deployment, and measurement of business outcomes. Working closely with Obin's commercial, product and engineering teams, you'll ensure that solutions are grounded in customers' business priorities and successfully brought into production. This is a highly visible, client-facing role with significant ownership and the opportunity to shape how leading enterprises adopt and scale AI.

## What You'll Do

Identify and Shape High-Impact AI Opportunities

- Work with customers to identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI use cases based on business impact, technical feasibility, and strategic importance.
- Translate complex business challenges into clearly defined AI opportunities, solution concepts, and actionable roadmaps.
- Develop compelling business cases, value propositions, and success metrics to demonstrate the potential ROI of AI initiatives.
- Help customers think beyond incremental efficiency improvements to reimagine workflows and operating models enabled by agentic AI. Drive AI Solutions from Strategy to Production
- Partner closely with Obin's product, engineering, and Technical Program Management team to translate business requirements into solution designs and implementation plans.
- Navigate complex enterprise environments, proactively identifying risks, resolving ambiguity, and removing obstacles to execution.
- Define, track, and measure business outcomes, ensuring that deployed solutions deliver against customers' objectives and success metrics. Shape Long-Term AI Transformation
- Help customers develop longer-term AI strategies and roadmaps, identifying opportunities to expand successful solutions across teams, workflows, and business units.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to customers as they navigate the organizational, operational, and technological implications of AI adoption. . Be a Trusted Strategic Advisor to Enterprise Executives
- Build trusted relationships with business executives and senior stakeholders, serving as a strategic partner on their AI transformation journey.
- Develop a deep understanding of customers' business models, operating environments, strategic priorities, and challenges to identify where AI can drive meaningful change.
- Facilitate executive discussions and strategic workshops to shape AI transformation priorities, build alignment, and drive decision-making.

## What You'll Bring

- 7+ years of professional experience in management or tech consulting, corporate strategy, enterprise transformation, or strategic roles at leading technology companies.
- Extensive executive-facing experience, including working senior business leaders to shape strategy, influence decisions, and drive complex initiatives forward.
- Exceptional strategic and analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, synthesize complex information, and translate insights into clear recommendations and actionable plans.
- Experience advising or working within financial services, insurance, asset management, or other complex, highly regulated industries.
- Outstanding communication and executive presence, with the ability to engage, influence, and build credibility with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen, including experience evaluating business opportunities, developing business cases, assessing ROI, and connecting technology investments to measurable business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ownership and execution, with a track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through implementation.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the adaptability, initiative, and resourcefulness to thrive in a fast-moving startup environment.

Even Better If You Have

- Hands-on experience developing AI transformation strategies or deploying generative AI and agentic solutions within large enterprises.
- An MBA or advanced degree in a relevant discipline.

## Why Obin

AI is fundamentally changing how enterprises operate, and we're building the technology and partnerships to make that transformation real. At Obin, you'll have the opportunity to work directly with senior leaders at major financial institutions, tackle consequential business challenges, and help bring sophisticated AI solutions into production. You'll operate with the strategic exposure of a senior advisor, the ownership of an operator, and the speed and impact of an early-stage technology company. If you're excited about moving beyond strategy presentations to help shape and deliver the next generation of enterprise AI, we'd love to meet you. -

## About Obin AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Obin AI builds production-grade AI agents that automate complex workflows for regulated financial institutions, enabling them to scale capacity without adding headcount.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Apoorv Saxena (CEO, Co-founder) and Dr. Valliappa "Lak" Lakshmanan (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI for financial services (asset management, wealth management, insurance, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, origination, claims)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large financial institutions (top-tier banks, asset managers, insurers)
- **Mission**: "Expand institutional capacity without expanding headcount, enabling financial institutions to deploy capital faster, price risk more precisely, and operate with real-time insight that was previously impossible." [obin.ai/about](https://www.obin.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **Obin Agentic Platform**: End-to-end platform to reimagine, build, and manage production-grade AI agents inside a client’s own environment. Modular, governed, and composable.
- **Robin Agents**: Regulated AI agents trained on domain expertise to execute complex financial workflows (underwriting, due diligence, IC memo creation, wealth advisor enablement, claims processing) with full traceability and auditability.
- **Obin Financial Agent for Gemini Enterprise**: A pre-built agent available on Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, already in production at a major U.S. life insurer and a private credit fund. [obin.ai/post](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (seed stage)
- **Total Funding**: Seed round led by Motive Partners (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Motive Partners (lead), angel advisors Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; partner with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Engagements with institutions managing over $1 trillion in assets
  - Deployments move from pilot to production in weeks
  - 18 employees (as of 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)
  - Already live in top‑three global financial institutions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance‑first engineering**: Built by alumni of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Silver Lake, Google – deep domain expertise in both AI and regulated finance.
- **Governance by design**: Every agent output is traceable, auditable, and reversible; role‑based permissions and built‑in fail‑safes satisfy compliance teams.
- **Open architecture**: Transparent, modular design that runs inside the client’s environment – client owns data, models, and IP.
- **Edge‑case mastery**: Agents are trained on the exceptions and nuance that define financial workflows, not just routine 80% tasks.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen deployments with existing clients and expand to the next tier of global financial institutions.
- Continue to build the platform’s compounding learning effect – when one institution solves a workflow, the architecture improves for all.
- Scale the agentic workforce across asset management, wealth management, and insurance verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early‑stage startup (seed) tackling hard, production‑grade AI problems for high‑stakes environments. Emphasis on judgment, governance, and speed.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in the New York office. [obin.ai/careers](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
- **Team**: Advised by Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; founded by former Google AI and JPMorgan executives.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the engineering culture emphasizes building production systems that financial institutions can trust – a rare combination of AI research and institutional rigor.

## Sources
1. [obin.ai – About page](https://www.obin.ai/about)
2. [obin.ai – Careers page](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
3. [obin.ai – Homepage](https://www.obin.ai/)
4. [obin.ai – Stealth announcement & news](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)
5. [builtin.com – Obin AI profile](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)

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