Agentic Lead / Applied AI Prototyper

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Agentic Lead / Applied AI Prototyper Department: New Product Development (NPD): Reports To: Head of New Product Development: Type: Full-Time Location: Hybrid: $144,000 - $180,000 + bonus About IANS Research: IANS Research is the leading resource for information security and technology risk professionals. Our faculty-driven model delivers practitioner-grade advisory, research, and tools that help CISOs and their teams make better decisions faster. With 229 employees and a growing AI-enabled product portfolio, IANS is at an inflection point—investing heavily in agentic AI capabilities that extend and amplify our proprietary IP. Position Summary: The Agentic Lead / Applied AI Prototyper is a builder role embedded in New Product Development with one clear mission: prototype agentic workflows and AI-generated output formats that are grounded in IANS data and IP, move fast, and generate tangible artifacts the organization can evaluate, test, and scale. This is not a strategy or advisory position. The Agentic Lead spends the majority of their time building—experimenting with Claude and other LLM frameworks, assembling multi-step agentic workflows, and producing concrete outputs (board-rea...