
Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. The company’s technology, talent, and research have driven outcomes for the world’s greatest companies, including leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services. Their proprietary platform, Distillery, curates context from across the enterprise and adapts to each customer’s needs, prioritizing the outcomes customers need to show impact in months, not years. Headquartered in San Francisco, Distyl has reached more than 120 million end users and delivered hundreds of millions in operating impact across industries. Distyl is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital.

Distyl AI partners with blue-chip leaders to help them create the enterprises of the future. The company’s technology, talent, and research have driven outcomes for the world’s greatest companies, including leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services. Their proprietary platform, Distillery, curates context from across the enterprise and adapts to each customer’s needs, prioritizing the outcomes customers need to show impact in months, not years. Headquartered in San Francisco, Distyl has reached more than 120 million end users and delivered hundreds of millions in operating impact across industries. Distyl is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital.
Headquarters: San Francisco (also lists New York presence)
Product: Distillery — proprietary platform to generate, evaluate, and deploy AI-native workflows
Founders / Leadership: Arjun Prakash (Co‑Founder & CEO) and Derek Ho (Co‑Founder & COO)
Funding: Reported total funding ~ $202M; Series B reported $175M
Customers / Impact: Works with large enterprises across telecom, healthcare, financial services; reported >120M end users reached
Enterprise operations and AI systems integration across industries (telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, retail, financial services).
2022
Enterprise AI / AI systems
175000000
Reported post‑money valuation $1.8B in coverage
“Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue, and Dell Technologies Capital”
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What We Are Looking For As an AI Strategist Lead, you will lead Distyl’s most complex, high impact customer engagement end-to-end. Partnering a senior technical leader, you’ll oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers, researchers, and AI Strategists to deliver enterprise-scale outcomes that fundamentally transform how our customers operate
You’ll work directly with C-suite and senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, helping them scope and shape AI -native strategies, and drive adoption of new workflows. You will be accountable not just for delivery, but for measurable business impact, long-term value creation, and building trusted executive relationships.
You’ll shape the vision, drive execution, and influence our product roadmap by representing the voice of our most strategic customers. This role is ideal for someone with a rare blend of operational rigor, customer obsession, and strategic clarity - who thrives in ambiguity, leads with influence, and is passionate about AI.
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Note: Distyl is a hybrid working environment and requires in-office collaboration 3 days (Tue - Thu) a week. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY, and this role is available in either location.