Applied AI Specialist

Riverflex is seeking a Senior Consultant (minimum 5 years of work experience) for the Applied AI consulting team, based in Amsterdam (hybrid), full-time (40 h/week). Visa sponsorship is possible only for candidates. The role combines hands-on AI building with client-facing consulting, roughly 60% forward-deployed engineer and 40% strategist.

Responsibilities

Lead Applied AI workstreams on flagship engagements with major European retailers and financial services clients; Run discovery, help design the AI Operating System for the function in scope, and ship the first wave of skills, agents and integrations alongside the client team; Help redesign Riverflex's internal ways of working around AI and ship internal building blocks; Lift the craft of the Applied AI consulting team through specialist expertise, coaching colleagues and contributing to the reusable library; Help build AI coaching and change propositions, including building materials, running early engagements and feeding learnings back into the offer

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience in engineering, data/science, technical product or another builder role, of which at least 2 in AI; Client-facing experience embedded in a business context (consulting, solutions, forward-deployed or customer-facing product work); Demonstrated ability to walk into a function, model how work gets done today, and redesign it; Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications with Claude Code, Copilot, OpenAI, Gemini, or other AI-powered IDEs; Technical enough to prototype independently, understanding how APIs, webhooks, data models and deployment work in practice; Confident building skills, plugins or connectors with AI-assisted coding and no-code tools; Working understanding of LLM primitives (context windows, memory, tools, agents, evaluation); Knowing when AI is the right tool and when it isn't; Strong client presence and communication skills, confident running discovery sessions and demos with director-level stakeholders; Curious, always-learning mindset; Fluent in English, Netherlands-based

Nice to have

Public GitHub showing real work and/or active social presence around AI; Experience designing change around AI specifically; Existing footprint in the Anthropic, Claude, Copilot, OpenAI or Databricks ecosystems; Domain experience in retail, financial services or consumer; Dutch language skills

Benefits

Competitive compensation package; 25 days off per year, plus a full week off between Christmas and New Year; Flexible work from abroad for up to 6 weeks per year; Pension scheme; Learning & Development budget, including full access to all Coursera courses; ClassPass membership; Access to ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Notion, SlideHub and Riverflex's in-house developed software; Equity share scheme for long-term team members; Clear path to Director with profit-share upside