Deployment Strategist

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Role Details

Location: San Francisco, CA

Industry: AI

Salary: $100,000–$280,000

Equity: 0.1%–0.3%

Employment: Full-time, in-office (5 days/week)

Experience: 3–6 years

Visa sponsorship: Available

About the Company

An early-stage AI company building an enterprise platform that gives businesses control over how they access and deploy AI models. Its product routes requests across 450+ open- and closed-source models and supports flexible hosting, analytics, and enterprise AI agents.

The company serves approximately 100 customers globally, ranging from startups to large enterprises, and is backed by prominent venture investors.

About the Role

The company is hiring a customer-facing Deployment Strategist to turn complex business problems into practical, measurable AI deployments.

You’ll work directly with customer executives and technical teams, leading discovery, identifying workflows suitable for agent-based automation, coordinating integrations, and driving testing, rollout, and adoption. The role bridges customer needs, technical product capabilities, and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery to understand business processes, systems, goals, and constraints.

• Identify workflows suitable for AI agents and automation.

• Coordinate customer context, tools, and integrations with technical teams.

• Define success metrics and validate deployment results.

• Manage testing, rollout, feedback, and adoption.

• Build executive-level customer relationships and connect business needs to product capabilities.

• Document repeatable deployment approaches and identify product gaps or risks.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of relevant experience in consulting, strategy, operations, finance, or a similar demanding environment.

• Former founder or strong client-facing experience with senior stakeholders.

• Credibility and confidence when communicating with executives.

• Ability to understand and explain technical products, APIs, integrations, and AI workflows.

• Strong commercial judgment and stakeholder management.

• Ability to independently drive ambiguous projects from discovery through implementation and adoption.

• Willingness to work full-time in person in San Francisco, five days per week.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance.

• Health, medical, and dental coverage.

Interview Process

• Initial call

• Technical deployment interview

• Customer deployment interview

• On-site working session

• Offer