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# Forward-Deployed Strategist at Workhelix

- **Company:** Workhelix
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2025-03-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workhelix/jobs/4605002008

## Job description

## Who We Are

Workhelix is an enterprise SaaS company with a single goal: helping organizations get the most out of their AI investments.

Our people and software combine to give leaders answers to the three critical questions about the business value of AI:

- Where are our top opportunities to create value with AI?
- Are our current efforts actually delivering? What’s their ROI?
- How can we accelerate and increase the benefits of our AI?

To find answers for each customer, Workhelix applies our unmatched expertise in economics, AI, and data science. We have pioneered a task-scoring method to identify top GenAI opportunities, ensuring clear, data-driven deployment strategies. Our ROI monitoring suite applies Nobel Prize-winning economics to provide accurate, ongoing insights into the impact of GenAI implementations. Renowned AI and Economics thinkers including Andrew Ng, and cofounders Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson stand proudly behind our mission.

We maintain a culture established on five key principles. For more information on our leadership principles, please visit the careers page of our website.

This is a full-time opportunity open to job seekers in the Greater San Francisco area or to those who are willing to relocate there.

## Role

At Workhelix, the Forward-Deployed Strategist is pivotal in transforming complex business challenges into actionable solutions. You'll be the bridge between customer needs, data insights, and service execution—ensuring that organizations can make better, faster, and smarter decisions with our expertise. This role combines analytical problem-solving, deep user empathy, and strategic execution.

## Key Responsibilities

- Engage deeply with clients to understand their strategic goals, operational challenges, and data landscapes.
- Identify critical workflows and data sources that drive AI adoption and business transformation.
- Spearhead client workstreams with our Engineering and Product teams to design and deploy scalable, customized solutions that meet client needs.
- Lead client training sessions to ensure service adoption and empower users to generate actionable insights.
- Present strategic recommendations and deployment results to client executives, ensuring alignment on value realization.
- Work cross-functionally to influence service enhancements based on field insights.
- Design, build, and deliver impactful demos to prospective and existing clients to showcase Workhelix’s value proposition.
- Scope new engagement opportunities and assess how Workhelix can drive transformation across diverse industries.
- Analyse customer data using SQL to understand specific limitations and ways by which to mitigate these
- Work closely with sales colleagues to continuously deliver value for the customer and grow the ACV for Workhelix
- Drive execution by running SteerCo meetings, managing agendas, documenting decisions, and sharing clear follow-ups to keep projects on track.
- Bring structure to ambiguous environments by organizing workstreams, maintaining alignment across stakeholders, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

## What We Value

- Analytical thinkers who thrive in ambiguous environments and approach challenges with curiosity and rigor.
- A customer-centric mindset with a passion for translating complex data into software-led actionable strategies.
- Team players with low ego and a strong desire to contribute to meaningful outcomes.
- Proactive learners who adapt quickly and can guide, lead, and collaborate effectively.
- Exceptional communicators who can engage with stakeholders at every level.

## What You Bring

- 4+ years of experience working in client-facing roles, particularly in strategy or consulting with extensive experience working with and/or coordinating with internal engineering and data science teams.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results in complex organizational environments like B2B enterprise.
- Comfort navigating complex data ecosystems and identifying insights that drive business value.
- Experience developing novel software-led solutions to drive business outcomes for enterprise customers.
- Proficiency in ad-hoc data analysis and reporting.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Ability to travel (about ~25%) as required by client and business needs.
- Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area for in-office collaboration.

Pay range and compensation package $145,000- $185,000 + Equity + Health Benefits

## What You’ll Get

- Competitive compensation package and benefits.
- Chance to learn and collaborate with some of the most famous researchers in the AI and digital economy space: Andrew Ng, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andy McAfee, and Daniel Rock.
- The unique opportunity to help build a company, culture, and products from the ground up with a team that values healthy working practices.
- A high-trust, high-autonomy work environment.

At Workhelix, we stand committed to ensuring an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available without any discrimination. We believe diversity is critical to our success. Selection for employment will solely be based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply!

## About Workhelix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Workhelix helps enterprises measure, track, and grow the ROI of their AI investments by combining economic research, data science, and a software platform to identify where AI delivers value.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: James Milin (CEO), Erik Brynjolfsson (Co-Founder & Co-Chairman), Andrew McAfee (Co-Founder), Daniel Rock (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI ROI Analytics, Enterprise Software, Tech-Enabled Services
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises (B2B) — including Accenture, Wayfair, and Coursera
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To identify and measure with rigor and clarity the benefits of disruptive technologies." Their vision is "To help organizations and their people thrive in a rapidly changing world."

## Products & Services
- **[Nucleus Platform]**: The enterprise platform that connects workforce data and AI usage history to deliver a prioritized view of AI opportunities, hidden superusers, gaps in adoption, and estimated time/money savings. It provides role-level analytics to quantify ROI.
- **[Task-Scoring Methodology]**: A proprietary, research-backed approach that breaks down jobs into specific tasks and scores each for suitability to be accelerated by generative AI, creating a data-driven deployment roadmap.
- **[ROI Monitoring Suite]**: Applies Nobel Prize-winning economics to provide ongoing, accurate insights into the impact of GenAI implementations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised — **USD 30.3 million** across two rounds (a $15.3M round in November 2024 and a $15.0M Series A in March 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AIX Ventures (lead), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, Accenture Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and angel investors including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder), Mira Murati (OpenAI co-founder), Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind Chief Scientist), and Yann LeCun.
- **Growth Signals**: 17 employees (+26.3% YoY headcount growth), active job postings for Forward-Deployed roles, strong enterprise demand with zero paid advertising for first dozen customers, and recent $15M Series A funding to expand task/KPI tracking and internal tools.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Academic Roots & Credibility**: Founded by world-renowned economists (Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Daniel Rock) from MIT, Stanford, and Wharton, giving the methodology deep research legitimacy that competitors lack.
- **Rigorous, Task-Level Approach**: Unlike broad-stroke consulting, Workhelix breaks down every role into thousands of individual tasks and scores each for AI suitability, providing a quantitative, defensible roadmap.
- **Nobel Prize-Grade Economics**: The ROI monitoring applies advanced economic frameworks (from Nobel Prize-winning research) to measure impact, not just usage.
- **All-Star Network**: Backed by an unparalleled roster of AI and tech luminaries (Hoffman, Ng, Murati, Dean, LeCun), providing credibility, network effects, and strategic guidance.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand Task & KPI Coverage**: The Series A capital is being used to increase the number of tasks and KPIs the software tracks.
- **Scale the Human+Software Model**: Workhelix deliberately combines its Nucleus platform with expert support (data scientists working directly with enterprise customers), creating a defensible tech-enabled services model. They plan to improve internal tools for these data scientists.
- **Lead the AI ROI Category**: The company sees a massive gap in the market for rigorous, data-driven AI value measurement and aims to become the standard for enterprises trying to justify and optimize their AI spend.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven & High Impact**: Work on the defining business problem of the decade — helping enterprises unlock the trillion-dollar opportunity of AI productivity.
- **World-Class Founding Team & Network**: Work alongside and learn from founders who are the most cited researchers in the field, plus get exposure to an advisory network that includes AI pioneers.
- **Strong Culture & Principles**: The company operates on five clear leadership principles: *Evidence Always*, *Customer Obsession*, *Bias for Action*, *Debate and Commitment*, and *Extreme Ownership*. They practice "minimum viable permission-seeking" and emphasize speed.
- **Dogfooding AI**: The company lives its mission — AI use is a reflex for everyone, used to elevate the quality, speed, and rigor of work.
- **Location & Work Style**: Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. Open roles include Forward-Deployed Strategist and Forward-Deployed Software Engineer, suggesting a hybrid model with client-facing work.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 26% yearly headcount growth, active hiring, and a fresh $15M Series A, this is an early-stage company with significant upward mobility for early employees.

## Sources
1. [workhelix.com](https://www.workhelix.com/)
2. [workhelix.com/careers](https://www.workhelix.com/careers)
3. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workhelix)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workhelix)
5. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/workhelix-taps-years-of-research-to-help-enterprises-figure-out-where-to-apply-ai/)

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