AI Analyst

NOTE: This is a 1-year, Fixed-Term position.

Are you a senior analyst who is fluent in how modern AI gets built and adopted? Join Stanford's Enterprise Technology team (AI Catalyst) as the connective tissue between business stakeholders and the engineering teams delivering enterprise AI. You will shape and document requirements for AI and GenAI initiatives, translate ambiguous business needs into clear, buildable specifications, and help drive delivery across the rollout of enterprise platforms (Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini) and a portfolio of high-stakes AI applications.

This is a senior, applied business analysis role. You will not build models, but you will understand AI concepts deeply enough to scope feasible use cases, set realistic expectations, write strong requirements, and guide solutions through delivery, testing, and adoption.

Approved budgeted annual salary for this role: $156,505 - $183,920

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Enterprise AI Delivery: Experience delivering AI/GenAI projects in a large, complex organization, ideally including platform rollouts and adoption efforts.

• AI Quality & Governance: Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation of AI outputs (rubrics, accuracy/quality, hallucination checks), and AI guardrails, privacy, and governance practices.

• Agentic & Interoperability Awareness: Awareness of agent interoperability standards (e.g., A2A) and MCP-based integrations between AI agents and enterprise tools.

• Agile & BA Tooling: Experience with Agile/Scrum and tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Smartsheet.

• Process & Data Skills: Process mapping (e.g., BPMN) and comfort with data analysis (SQL, dashboards) to support decisions.

• Change & Training: Experience with change management, user enablement, and training program design.

• Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Coordinating across multiple stakeholders and external vendors.

• Higher Education Context: Experience in higher education or similarly complex, decentralized environments.

Core Duties:

• Lead the elicitation and gathering of business and system requirements.

• Analyze, design and implement complex management information systems.

• Lead efforts to ensure that information systems support the organizational mission and objectives and coordinate the process of defining, investigating and solving problems related to business systems and special projects.

• Manage, from a client business perspective, the requirements for related systems projects; ensure a high level of client satisfaction by monitoring the delivery of ongoing information systems to the organization.

• Lead and coordinate projects to assist business owners in evaluating the potential for automating existing or proposed work functions or processes and assess the feasibility of creating or modifying systems to meet user requirements.

• Analyze new business requirements, system functionality, current system use and user needs; specify functional designs and work with developers and analysts to implement.

• Develop system design for new or revised business systems; document and analyze input/output requirements, procedural flow between departments, operational audits and organizational structures.

• May plan, direct, coordinate, monitor and review the work of others during all phases of the project team''s work and coordinate the planning, development and presentation of training for users of business systems.

• Manage external vendor or partner relationships.

Minimum Education and Experience:

Bachelor''s degree and eight years relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of computer system capabilities, business processes, and workflow.

• Current knowledge of rapidly changing computer technology.

• Extensive experience with enterprise applications and understanding of database driven applications.

• Ability to design and document complex business systems.

• Proven problem solving and analytical thinking and ability to approach problems logically and systematically.

• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle.

• Knowledge of principles and techniques used in conducting management studies and in systems analysis.

• Project management skills as needed.

• Skill in conducting interviews and facilitating group meetings.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to bridge functional and technical resources by communicating effectively with individuals of varying systems expertise and business needs.

• Strong listening, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Core Duties:

• Lead the elicitation and gathering of business and system requirements.

• Analyze, design and implement complex management information systems.

• Lead efforts to ensure that information systems support the organizational mission and objectives and coordinate the process of defining, investigating and solving problems related to business systems and special projects.

• Manage, from a client business perspective, the requirements for related systems projects; ensure a high level of client satisfaction by monitoring the delivery of ongoing information systems to the organization.

• Lead and coordinate projects to assist business owners in evaluating the potential for automating existing or proposed work functions or processes and assess the feasibility of creating or modifying systems to meet user requirements.

• Analyze new business requirements, system functionality, current system use and user needs; specify functional designs and work with developers and analysts to implement.

• Develop system design for new or revised business systems; document and analyze input/output requirements, procedural flow between departments, operational audits and organizational structures.

• May plan, direct, coordinate, monitor and review the work of others during all phases of the project team''s work and coordinate the planning, development and presentation of training for users of business systems.

• Manage external vendor or partner relationships.

Minimum Education and Experience:

Bachelor''s degree and eight years relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of computer system capabilities, business processes, and workflow.

• Current knowledge of rapidly changing computer technology.

• Extensive experience with enterprise applications and understanding of database driven applications.

• Ability to design and document complex business systems.

• Proven problem solving and analytical thinking and ability to approach problems logically and systematically.

• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle.

• Knowledge of principles and techniques used in conducting management studies and in systems analysis.

• Project management skills as needed.

• Skill in conducting interviews and facilitating group meetings.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to bridge functional and technical resources by communicating effectively with individuals of varying systems expertise and business needs.

• Strong listening, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.