AI Corporate Strategy Director

The Company:

Faraday Future (FF) is a California-based embodied artificial intelligence ecosystem company, leveraging the latest technologies and world’s best talent to realize exciting new possibilities in mobility and robotics. We’re producing user-centric, technology-first vehicles and robots to establish new paradigms in human-AI interaction. We’re not just seeking to change how our cars and robots work – we’re seeking to change the way we drive and interact with machines.

At FF, we’re creating something new, something connected, and something with a true global impact.

Your Role:

We are looking for a leader who can reshape the way our company is strategically designed and operated through an AI-product mindset. The first responsibility of this role is not to "push AI adoption into a traditional organization" — it is the opposite: to treat the company itself as a product built on top of our AI capabilities, and to design its organizational structure, processes, staffing, and decision-making mechanisms around our core AI products.

This role suits someone who combines AI transformation experience, product thinking, and operational instinct, and who has a clear point of view on what an AI-native company should look like. We are not looking to build a heavyweight traditional operating system — we are looking for someone who can use AI to drive change at the management layer and make the company itself the best showcase of our AI products.

As a first responsibility-level role — you are not designing a process, you are designing how this company operates. Our in-house and external AI products are both your toolkit and the objects you are validating and refining. Direct collaboration with the founder, product, and engineering core — an extremely short decision chain. A genuine opportunity to redefine what a company can be with AI — not yet another AI project inside a traditional company

• Treats the company itself as a product, not an organization to be managed
• Genuinely AI Native — not just "comfortable using AI tools," but defaults to asking "can AI do this?" for every problem
• A conviction in staying lean: if one Agent can solve it, don't build a team for it
• Judgment that operates on the same wavelength as the founder — able to decide under ambiguity and own the outcome

Responsibilities

• Designing the Company as an AI Product
• Guided by the company's "AI First" strategy, design the strategic roadmap, operating philosophy, organizational form, role structure, and overall collaboration model of the company's AI transformation — so that the way the company runs becomes a natural extension of our AI product capabilities. Identify which traditional businesses and functions can be replaced or restructured by AI products / Agents, and lead the transition from "human-driven processes" to "human + AI Agent driven processes". Work closely with AI Operations, Product, and Engineering teams to position internal company operations as the "first user" and validation ground for AI product planning
• Integration and Lightweight Redesign of Existing Systems
• Map the company's current business, product, organizational, and process landscape, and identify the parts that can be replaced, simplified, or consolidated by AI. Avoid stacking heavyweight management processes; prefer AI Agents, automation, and data-driven feedback loops over human coordination. Integrate the existing tool stack with the company's AI products — build on what's there rather than starting from scratch
• AI Transformation Framework and Cadence
• Partner with the founder and executive team to define the key decision-making framework at the company level, keeping strategy, business, product & technology, and organization in sync. Design a lightweight operating cadence (weekly / monthly / quarterly) anchored on data and AI-assisted decision-making, rather than replicating traditional management systems. Maintain equally clear judgment on "what not to do" and "what to delegate to AI"
• Basic Qualifications: 15+ years of experience in product, strategy, or company-level operations, with at least 3 years in a core role at an AI / tech company during a 0-to-1 or 0-to-N stage
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in CS, Robotics, EE, or a closely related technical field.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, AI Agents, and workflow automation — including their capability boundaries — with sound judgment on where AI should and should not be applied
• Product mindset — able to treat "how the company operates" as a product problem to be defined, decomposed, and iterated on Aversion to redundant process; commitment to minimum-necessary operations; proven track record of replacing traditional management activities with tools and automation
• Able to engage directly with the founder, Head of Product, and Head of Engineering — and to translate and broker tradeoffs among them

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product or operations background in AI products — particularly Agents, Copilots, or automation-class products
• Prior experience in a "company-building" or Chief of Staff type role within a small, high-density team
• Familiarity with the domain our existing AI products operate in, with the ability to quickly form a view on the product-organization-market relationship
• Startup experience, with a deep bias toward "lean" — capable of producing 50-person output with a 5-person