Agentic AI Solutions, Manager

Agentic AI Solutions, Manager
Quantum Rise is a rapidly scaling AI consulting and product development start-up focused on helping high growth organizations adopt AI and win their industry. Our offerings range from strategy and roadmap engagements through to full AI/ML product development. We are expanding our solution architecture team and are looking for talented and experienced team members to join as an Agentic AI Solutions, Manager, driving the design of solutions for strategic clients across multiple industries. We operate in line with 3 guiding principles that we call Consulting 2.0:

• Profit, not PowerPoints.... while we create PowerPoints (strategy & roadmaps) our primary objective is to help get our clients build and deploy AI solutions that significantly impact profit (top line revenue and bottom-line costs)
• Product, not projects... the AI products we deploy should always on, continuously measured, and iteratively improved via the product backlog
• Open, not black box... we will take our clients along the journey helping them understand how it works and the fundamentals that influence AI product success like process/end-use experience, data strategy, governance, and change management.

Taken together these guiding principles mean it is critical that our solutions are impactful for our clients and combine precise understanding of their business with the right technical architecture for the problem.
Position Summary
The Solutions team at Quantum Rise are at the forefront of driving implementation and adoption of agentic solutions with our clients. This role will be part technologist and part strategist, who will work directly with clients to help organizations design and implement intelligent agents that automate workflows, augment decision-making, and unlock measurable business value.
In this role you will help clients navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of agentic AI systems by proactively experimenting with new technology to develop a point of view on how to identify opportunities, shaping solutions, and ensuring successful adoption. This is a hands-on, high-impact role designed for professionals who thrive at the intersection of business innovation and applied AI.
The ideal candidate is a strong technical resource who branched out into business-side roles, or the reverse, a strategic business or operations individual who couldn't resist learning deeper technical skills.
Key Responsibilities

• Translate client business goals into implementable AI/ML solution architectures which bring the client further along the maturity journey. Define end-to-end designs spanning data, models, integrations and user experience.
• Partner with sales and strategy teams to assess opportunities, shape proposals, and produce solution blueprints, statements of work, and delivery estimates that are technically sound and commercially viable.
• Think beyond individual engagements, demonstrating longer term vision for solutions and technologies which clients can aim towards, and which Quantum Rise can help deliver.
• Lead discovery sessions with both business and technical client team members to uncover business pain points, data realities and process constraints, turning them into clear functional and non-functional requirements.
• Apply generative-AI and classical-ML knowledge to recommend the right models, frameworks, and platforms. Stay ahead of emerging AI technologies and assess their applicability for client use cases.
• Contribute to the creation of repeatable architectures, reference designs, and accelerators that improve delivery efficiency and enable Quantum Rise to scale consistently across clients.
• Act as a trusted advisor for client executives, translating complex AI concepts into clear business language and ensuring alignment between strategy and execution.
• Work closely with product, engineering, and consulting teams to ensure seamless hand-offs and a unified client experience across pre-sales, delivery, and ongoing optimization.
• Work with the consulting and engineering teams to establish architecture standards, review designs for scalability and security, and ensure solutions comply with client and Quantum Rise governance practices.
• Collect lessons learned from projects to refine frameworks, internal tooling, and sales approaches, supporting a culture of measurable impact and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data & Analytics, Informatics, Engineering, Business Management or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional experience working in at least two different industries, or similar experience in consulting environments across projects in multiple industries, with a proven track record of architecting strategic initiatives which delivered on their promises.
• Fluency both in Generative AI capabilities as well as traditional machine learning solutions, along with general good software implementation principles
• Experience in architecting and delivering commercial data science engagements, demonstrating an ability to make data-driven recommendations using datasets which are revenue impacting for a business
• Experience integrating Generative AI tooling into your own productivity and work, and in evaluating its effects
• Exceptional project management skills, with experience in applying agile methodologies and tools.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to place yourself in the shoes of a client and envision the right tools for the problem at hand even if they require both technical and organizational motion.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, capable of influencing others and creating buy-in, working effectively across all levels of the organization.
• This role is for a dynamic individual who thrives in a startup atmosphere, ready to apply their expertise to help Quantum Rise grow and succeed.
• An MBA is advantageous but not strictly required.

Employee Benefits
As an employee you will be eligible for the following benefit suite, subject to and in accordance with the applicable plan or policy requirements:

• Selection of health, vision, and dental PPO insurance, provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois; eligible the first day of employment.
• Variable Compensation: Eligible for annual performance bonuses and equity options. Bonuses reflect individual and company achievements, while equity aligns with long-term shareholder value, subject to vesting.
• Retirement Plan: We offer a retirement 401(k) plan with a yearly discretionary match.
• Flex benefits inclusive of FSA, DCA, Commuter, Learning and Development Stipends.
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO; paid holidays; paid sick time.
• Flexible working schedule.