AI Strategy Associate Director – State Health

🕒 August 11

🌽 Illinois, Michigan – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $122k - $203k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Guidehouse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Advise State Health and Medicaid leaders on enterprise AI strategy, capabilities, use cases, governance, and tooling • Lead engagements from strategy through implementation, focusing on outcomes, adoption, and sustainable operations • Translate health and Medicaid business challenges into AI/ML and analytics solutions using Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and related services • Partner with IT, program, privacy, security, legal, and procurement stakeholders • Facilitate use case discovery and prioritization workshops • Define AI use case portfolios and roadmaps covering quick wins, modernization, transformation, data, governance, and operating model foundations • Create adoption plans involving workforce readiness, change management, training, and communications • Guide design and implementation of AI and GenAI capabilities, including predictive analytics, intelligent document processing, customer service augmentation, caseworker tools, workflow automation, and anomaly detection • Advise on production readiness, model monitoring, drift, validation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and incident response • Partner with data engineering and architecture teams on data pipelines and curated datasets • Apply Medicaid and State Health data knowledge across claims, eligibility, providers, managed care, LTSS, pharmacy, behavioral health, and social determinants • Support interoperability approaches using FHIR, HL7, and related health data exchange patterns • Define data quality, lineage, metadata, and access patterns • Establish AI governance, intake, review, risk management, and approval pathways • Incorporate responsible AI, transparency, auditability, and privacy-preserving practices • Collaborate on HIPAA-aligned privacy practices, security controls, and contractual requirements • Drive business development through capture support, proposal development, orals preparation, and strategic pursuits • Expand Guidehouse’s footprint in State Health and health and human services organizations • Contribute to thought leadership and represent the firm in client discussions and industry forums • Oversee cross-functional teams and work with client executives and program leaders

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university • Candidate must be located within the United States and be a US Citizen • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust • Minimum seven (7) years of hands-on AI, data, analytics, or engineering experience, including applied AI/ML work • Minimum five (5) years delivering technical solutions and programs for public sector clients, with significant experience in State Health and/or Medicaid environments • Experience defining AI use cases, translating business needs into solution requirements, and moving solutions from concept to implementation • Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and data platforms, including Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, and Snowflake • Working knowledge of GenAI capabilities and patterns • Experience with the full delivery lifecycle, including architecture, development oversight, deployment planning, monitoring, and operational support models • Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including agency executives and engineering and architecture teams • Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills • Ability to travel 10% during key peak periods • AI and/or cloud certifications, relevant GenAI credentials, PMP or comparable delivery leadership credential, and other listed qualifications are nice to have, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Basic Life & Supplemental Life • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Student Loan PayDown • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities • Skills Development & Certifications • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program • Mobility Stipend • Flexible benefits package • Up to 10% travel