AI Adoption Consultant

Evangelist Track | Kiingo AI | Full-time, W-2 | Remote-first, US-based, frequent travel | $140–170k base + $20–40k target bonus

What this role is

You'll enter Kiingo through a structured path into one of our most important client-facing roles: helping CEOs and leadership teams understand how AI changes the way their companies work. You'll shadow and co-deliver executive talks, support bootcamps and consulting engagements, build client-ready materials, and grow toward independently delivering Kiingo's flagship AI adoption talk.

This is a growth role, but not an entry-level role. We're looking for someone who already has serious client-facing judgment and wants to develop into a public-facing AI advisor.

The end state is AI Evangelist — one of the primary voices of Kiingo in front of CEOs. Most weeks you're in a Vistage room, an EO chapter, a corporate boardroom, or onsite running a workshop. Some of your time is delivering bootcamps and consulting work for the companies that hire us after they hear you speak.

We generate the room and the opportunities. You focus on earning trust, delivering value, and helping convert interest into real adoption work.

This is not a role for someone who wants stage time on day one. It's a role for someone who wants to build a real career as a trusted advisor to CEOs and is willing to develop the craft deliberately.

What you'll actually do

Months 0–4: Absorb and support

* Learn the flagship talk cold. Internalize the case studies, the framework, the hard questions

* Maintain Kiingo's AI release and market memo: what shipped, what changed, what matters for mid-market companies, and what is noise

* Own the Q&A and objection library: the questions CEOs actually ask, the answers that land, and the places where our thinking needs to evolve

* Shadow live talks (virtual and in-person)

* Support bootcamps and AI Resources engagements — our hands-on client work embedding AI workflows, agents, and automations — as a co-deliverer

* Draft client recommendations and deliverables

* Build industry-specific variants of the core talk

* Begin soloing corporate trainings by around month 3, once you've co-delivered enough sessions to internalize the curriculum

Months 4–9: Co-deliver and start carrying rooms

* Deliver selected sections of the flagship talk in live rooms

* Run breakout exercises and workshop modules

* Lead bootcamp sessions

* Handle scoped Q&A with support

* Take solo selected engagements, such as smaller corporate workshops, internal trainings, and carefully scoped executive sessions

* Join follow-up conversations with prospects who came out of talks

Months 9–18: Grow into the AI Evangelist role

* Begin solo delivery of senior executive rooms — including Vistage talks, board presentations, and corporate keynotes — once you have demonstrated readiness

* Ramp toward 3–4 talks a month over time

* Continue running bootcamps and consulting engagements between talks

* Help us evolve the talk over time as the AI landscape shifts (because it shifts every 90 days)

What we're looking for

Consulting maturity. You've sat across from executives and held your own. You've earned trust in real client rooms, not just polished ones in pitches. You can diagnose a business situation, handle objections from a skeptical CFO, and write up a recommendation that lands. This is the floor. Without it, the rest doesn't matter.

Executive presence. You're comfortable in front of leadership teams. You read rooms well. You don't overperform, you don't overclaim, and you know when not to answer too confidently. Executives should experience you as commercially mature: someone they could put in front of their leadership team, not someone they are grading on potential.

Deep AI fluency. You're not just an avid user. You follow the major model releases and can explain what they actually mean for businesses — and what they do not mean. When someone in the room mentions the latest Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, or open-source release, you have a grounded point of view. You read the AI press, follow credible technical and business voices, and stay current because you genuinely care, not because you have to. You don't need to be a coder, but the more technical fluency you bring, the better.

Speaking potential. You've done some form of executive communication — workshops, training, sales engineering demos to executive buyers, conference speaking, internal all-hands. You don't need to be a polished keynote speaker yet. You need to be coachable into one.

A real point of view. Kiingo's stance is that AI adoption is a people problem, not a technology problem. The bottleneck is culture, capability, and adaptability. You'll be teaching this. You need to believe it, or be willing to argue with us until you do.

Travel-ready. Most weeks involve a trip. Some weeks are road weeks. Be honest with yourself about whether that fits your life right now.

Coachable and aligned. This role requires accepting feedback constantly for the first year. If you need to be the smartest person in the room, this won't work. The Kiingo worldview is the foundation. Your job is to make it land in the room.

What we're not looking for

* Pure motivational speakers without consulting depth. The audience will see through it

* Pure technologists who can explain transformers but can't read a room

* Junior AI enthusiasts who want stage reps. The bar is consulting maturity first

* Anyone using this as a stepping stone to launch their own consulting practice

You may become a visible public voice through this role, but the goal is to build Kiingo's platform, not a separate solo practice.

Compensation and structure

* Base: $140,000–$170,000 depending on consulting experience, AI fluency, and speaking background. Candidates who are strong client-facing consultants but earlier in executive speaking should expect to land toward the lower or middle of the range. Candidates with significant executive workshop experience, strong AI fluency, and near-term potential to lead executive rooms solo may land toward the top

* Bonus: Target bonus of $20,000–$40,000, with upside to $50,000, tied to readiness milestones, delivery utilization, audience and facilitator scores once you're speaking solo, and clearly defined pipeline and revenue influence from talks and follow-on engagements. Bonus eligibility begins on day one — the first 90 days are not excluded

* Promotion path: AI Adoption Consultant → AI Evangelist → Senior AI Evangelist → Head of Evangelism. Promotion to AI Evangelist is based on demonstrated readiness, not tenure: solo delivery quality, executive Q&A performance, mastery of the flagship talk, bootcamp delivery, client feedback, and ability to generate follow-on demand. Promotion includes a compensation step-up, with AI Evangelist total comp typically landing in the $220,000–$265,000+ range based on performance

* Benefits: Standard W-2 benefits package; details shared during the interview process

* Reports to: CEO

Travel policy

This is a road job. We want it to be sustainable.

* Expected annual travel: 80–110 nights on the road in a typical year. Travel is not evenly distributed; some months will be light, and some will be road-heavy

* Weekend travel: Not expected. We schedule around it whenever possible. If a Sunday flight is the only way to make a Monday-morning talk, you fly Sunday — but that's the exception, not the pattern

* Recovery days: A road week of 4+ nights away earns a recovery day the following week. We expect you to take it. We'd rather you stay sharp than burn out

* Flights: Economy or premium economy on short and medium routes. Business class is reserved for long-haul flights of 5+ hours and red-eyes

* Hotels: Comfortable, business-appropriate properties — typically Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, IHG, or equivalents. We optimize for safety, rest, reliability, and proximity to the client site, not luxury

* Meals: Reasonable meals reimbursed. We don't run a per diem system — submit expenses and use good judgment

* Points and miles: You keep all airline miles, hotel points, and credit card rewards earned on Kiingo travel

* Ground transport: Rideshare, taxi, or rental car as appropriate. Reimbursed

* Booking: You book your own travel within policy, with support when needed

How utilization works

The bonus structure does not penalize time spent preparing talks, traveling, or developing materials. Travel days, talk preparation, content development, and shadowing all count as utilized time. We measure outcomes (audience scores, pipeline, delivery quality) — not seat-time at a desk.

What success looks like in year one

* Strong contributions to bootcamp delivery and consulting engagements

* Soloing corporate trainings by month 3, contributing to client revenue early

* Deep mastery of the flagship talk and supporting materials

* Ownership of the Q&A library, objection database, and AI release memo

* Solo delivery of selected workshops and internal trainings by months 6–9

* Co-delivery of senior executive rooms, including Vistage and board settings, alongside the CEO

* Clear progress toward carrying executive rooms solo by month 12–18

How to apply

Send us:

1. A short video, 3 minutes or less, answering this prompt: "Where does AI adoption usually break down inside mid-market companies, and what would you tell a skeptical CEO about where to start?" Existing speaking clips are also welcome

2. A note on your client-facing experience — the rooms you've been in, the executives you've worked with, and the kinds of recommendations you've delivered

Email applications to [email protected] with the subject line "AI Adoption Consultant."