Senior AI Business Analyst - Operations

<div class="content-intro"><p>Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.</p></div><h1>The Role</h1> <p>We are hiring a Senior Business Analyst, AI &amp; Data Science to serve as an embedded business partner to one of our internal functional teams. You will be assigned to a single functional vertical at hire: Finance, M&amp;A, Business Development, Human Resources, Legal, or Operations. You will spend your days inside that team, learning their workflows, surfacing high-value AI and data science opportunities, and shipping work that makes them faster, sharper, and more effective.</p> <p>You will report into our central AI &amp; Data Science team and work day-to-day alongside the leaders and operators of your assigned vertical. Think of yourself as a translator and a builder: fluent in the function's metrics and mechanics, fluent in what modern AI and data science can do, and trusted by both sides to bridge the two.</p> <p>This is a hybrid role that blends three jobs, all applied inside your assigned function:</p> <ul> <li><strong>AI strategist: </strong>identify, prioritize, and build the business case for AI and data science use cases that move the function's KPIs.</li> <li><strong>Data science translator: </strong>bridge functional stakeholders and technical AI and data resources. Scope models and tools, then interpret outputs in clear, decision-useful terms.</li> <li><strong>Operations partner: </strong>help the function operationalize AI and data tools in their workflows, drive adoption, and measure real impact.</li> </ul> <h1>Quick Facts</h1> <table width="624"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="180"> <p><strong>Team</strong></p> </td> <td width="444"> <p>AI &amp; Data Science, embedded as business partner to one functional vertical</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="180"> <p><strong>Vertical assignment</strong></p> </td> <td width="444"> <p>Finance, M&amp;A, Business Development, Human Resources, Legal, or Operations