Innovation Strategist

About Board of Innovation

We help companies grow in the autonomous age. Intelligent technologies are reshaping how businesses innovate, market and sell, creating entirely new ways to generate value. To capture this shift, organizations need to rethink how they work, make decisions and build for the future.

At BOI, we partner with the world’s most ambitious companies to rewire their growth engines with AI. Our work ranges from building AI-native product and service models for Walmart to shaping the future of AI-powered marketing for The Coca-Cola Company. Each project is first-of-its-kind, pushing the boundaries of how AI can unlock new growth for the companies shaping their industries.

About the Role

As an Innovation Strategist, you will shape, lead, and deliver high-impact AI strategy and innovation projects. You will co-own critical project components, guide junior team members, and become a trusted partner to clients navigating AI-driven transformation.

You will be at the forefront of AI-native business model design, AI-powered growth strategy, and first-of-its-kind experimentation; translating emerging technologies into actionable, commercially relevant opportunities.

This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, takes ownership, pushes boundaries, and turns ambiguity into clarity and impact.

What You Will Do

Lead Workstreams & Co-Lead Major Project Components:

• Own key workstreams and co-lead critical components of complex AI strategy projects.
• Manage priorities, timelines, and delivery excellence with full accountability for quality and client satisfaction.
• Resolve challenges independently and proactively guide the team toward impactful outcomes.
  

Deliver High-Quality, Insight-Driven Strategy Work:

• Build AI-powered research, analyses, frameworks, and recommendations that shape client decisions.
• Translate complex problems into clear logic, structured narratives, and actionable pathways.
• Build provocative concepts, prototypes, or AI workflows that demonstrate what the future could look like.

Be a Trusted Client Partner:

• Lead client interactions for your project components, ensuring clarity, responsiveness, and strategic alignment.
• Anticipate client needs and proactively address feedback to strengthen relationships and deliver exceptional value.
  

Drive AI Pioneership:

• Lead the adoption of GenAI approaches within your workstreams, delivering first-in-kind, high-impact solutions.
• Inspire and guide teammates to apply advanced AI methods.
• Elevate the ambition of each project by identifying emerging AI opportunities that unlock new value.

Contribute to Business Growth:

• Spot opportunities for upsell or expansion within ongoing projects.
• Translate successful work into compelling cases, stories, or proposal inputs.

Ideal Candidate Profile

You think in systems, opportunities, and future business models: You can navigate ambiguity, structure complex challenges, and translate AI potential into strategic realities.

You bring hands-on experience in strategy, innovation, or AI: 5+ years is typical, but we value trajectory and impact over years. Experience may come from consultancy, product strategy, innovation, venture building, or AI-driven roles.

You’re an analytical, structured, creative thinker: You combine rigorous analysis with conceptual creativity to craft breakthrough solutions.

You lead with ownership and entrepreneurial energy: You manage high-stakes workstreams confidently, anticipate risks, and proactively shape direction - not wait for it.

You collaborate with clarity and positivity: You elevate the energy in the room, communicate crisply, and help teams perform at their best.

You’re an advanced explorer of AI tools & techniques: You’re deeply curious about emerging AI capabilities and already leverage tools beyond prompting; whether through no-code automation, data workflows, prototyping, or conceptual modeling.

You love learning and teaching: You stay ahead of industry shifts, continuously develop your expertise, and share what you know to lift others.

What We Offer

• A front-row seat to some of the world’s most pioneering AI innovation work.
• The chance to co-shape first-of-its-kind AI strategies, products, and growth engines.
• A high-growth environment where your ideas matter and ambition is celebrated.
• A team culture built on creativity, excellence, experimentation, and fun.
• Direct ownership of project components with visibility and impact.
• Space to explore, prototype, experiment and push boundaries on what’s possible with AI.
• Office rituals, team gatherings, and a community of bright, supportive colleagues.

Location

• Antwerp, Belgium

Why You'll Love Working at BOI

• You’ll work with world-class clients on projects that define the future of AI in business.
• You’ll join a team that is warm, ambitious, and relentlessly curious.
• You’ll never be bored: you’ll always be learning.
• You’ll have the freedom to shape, experiment, and push the frontier of AI strategy.

This is your opportunity to launch your AI strategy career surrounded by brilliant, ambitious people who care about their work and about each other.

BOI is an equal opportunity employer:  we celebrate diversity and welcome all backgrounds and identities.

We do not accept candidates submitted by agencies.