Head of Deployments
$240,000–$300,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own Deployments end to end: technical onboarding, project management, and time-to-value for new customers across segments, including AI deployments. Lead and develop the Deployment Strategist team of 8-10, managing coaching, capacity planning, and feedback loops. Build scalable deployment playbooks from an unstructured starting point and own the Sales-to-Deployment handoff, ensuring scoping accuracy and SOW guardrails. Own the revenue number and P&L plan, creating Services packages to book $1M in revenue over the next 12 months. Benchmark and improve time-to-value, particularly for customers spending $100K+, and serve as the escalation point for at-risk deployments to diagnose root causes and unblock issues. Partner with Product and Support to close the loop on recurring implementation issues. This role requires running a deployment org with operating discipline, including playbooks, capacity planning, and services P&L management.
Required Qualifications
- Strong customer-facing orientation and communication
- Comfortable in executive meetings and in the weeds with a deployment plan
- Hands-on, builder's mindset—thrives creating structure and repeatability from scratch
- People leader with strongly held principles
- Has managed a team of 8+
- Proven track record of success
- Comfort with pre-sales and value framing
- Particularly for AI adoption / change management contexts
- Services or professional-services leadership range
- Has run a P&L
- Priced engagements
- Made build-vs-partner calls before
- Startup experience
- Consulting experience
- Services experience
- Curious, proactive, and accountable with a passion for driving outcomes for customers
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Authorized to work in the UK
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with AI deployments
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