About KX
Our mission is to accelerate data and AI-driven innovation with high-performance analytics solutions, enabling our customers to transform into AI-first enterprises. KX is trusted by the world's top investment banks & hedge funds, aerospace and defence, life and health sciences, semiconductor, telecommunications, and advanced manufacturing companies.
Time series and vector data analytics and management are at the heart of our products, independently benchmarked as the fastest on the market. They help our customers process data at unmatched speed and scale and empower LOB leaders, developers, data scientists, and data engineers to build high-performance data-driven applications and turbocharge their favourite analytics tools in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge.
KX technology enables the discovery of richer, actionable insights for faster, better-informed decision-making, which drives competitive advantage and transformative growth for our customers. KX operates across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Role Overview:
Lead KX’s AI-first initiative by uncovering, quantifying and executing high-impact Gen-AI use-cases across product, operations and go-to-market teams. You will bridge strategy, technology and change-management to accelerate ROI from AI investments.
Core Responsibilities:
- Run rapid discovery workshops to map pain-points and AI opportunities.
- Build ROI models (cost, productivity, revenue uplift) and secure executive sponsorship.
- Prototype with best-in-class tools (Cursor, Harvey, Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini) to validate value hypotheses.
- Create rollout playbooks covering data readiness, model governance, KPI tracking and upskilling.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Product and Security to move pilots into production.
- Track market trends and evangelise AI adoption internally and with customers/partners.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7-10 yrs in management consulting, product operations or value-engineering with a focus on advanced analytics or AI.
- Demonstrated delivery of AI transformation programs ($10 m + value) in software or financial-services firms.
- Proficient in Python or R for rapid POC development; SQL for data exploration.
- Strong executive-level communication and storytelling skills.
Nice-to-Have:
- Certification in change-management (e.g., Prosci) or cloud economics (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Familiarity with prompt-engineering, vector search and low-code AI orchestration.
- Exposure to kdb+/KX technology stack and time-series analytics.
Location & Workplace Type: This position takes on a Hybrid working model based in Ontario, Canada.
Why Choose KX?
- Data Driven: We lead with instinct and follow fact.
- Naturally Curious: We lean in, listen and learn fast.
- All In: We take ownership, take on challenges and give it our all
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Individually tailored training and skills development.
- Private healthcare package and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Wellness Days and Volunteer Days
