Forward Deployed Strategist
RemoteNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Partner with customer executive sponsors to scope FDE projects, translating ambiguous business problems into concrete, time-boxed deliverables with clear ROI. Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate feasibility, then work side by side with the FDE on the configuration layer, including workflows, integrations, and platform tooling. Own technical enablement and adoption by running hands-on training, building playbooks, and coaching the customer's team until they are self-sufficient. Monitor technical feasibility throughout delivery, adjusting scope with the sponsor when constraints emerge, and escalate product gaps or integration friction back to Product and Engineering to drive roadmap decisions. Establish and maintain the executive relationship from kickoff through handoff, selling the vision to C-suite stakeholders while translating between business outcomes and technical implementation.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or an Engagement Manager seat where you owned scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI-production workflows
- understanding of agentic coding and LLMs well enough to hold your own with senior eng: how they behave in production, where they fail, and what a resilient workflow looks like
- comfort hands-on with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform config, and ability to read enough Python / JS-TS to partner with an FDE
- experience shipping AI-native workflows past the prototype stage
- ability to walk into an unfamiliar enterprise eng org, find the highest-leverage intervention fast, and scope something that delivers concrete value in weeks, not quarters
- executive presence to own the C-suite relationship
- technical credibility to earn trust with their eng leads
Desired Qualifications
- Domain depth in FSI, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare/life sciences, or semiconductor
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