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Deployment Strategist

  • San Francisco, California
 

Job Reference: RYW73XR6

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Headcount

2

Seniority

associate

Expected close

 

Salary

150,000.00-200,000.00(USD)

Package Details

 

Salary & equity

Visa sponsorship details
Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
Open to visa sponsorships (e.g. new H1B, TN)

Willingness and ability to travel 25%–75% of the time to customer sites - PLEASE CONFIRM THIS WHEN SUBMITTING A CANDIDATE

Recruiting advice
Source from Palantir and big three consulting: Target Palantir Deployment Strategists first. Then go after McKinsey BCG and Bain folks with 2-5 years of client-facing work. FDEs with real customer-facing time work too.
Customer-facing is the key: The HM wants relationship people who've traveled and met with customers. Skip internal builders and biz ops profiles. Coding isn't required but they need to be technically literate. Materials robotics or energy exposure is a plus.

Recruit from - McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Dassault Systèmes, Ansys, Siemens Digital Industries Software, PTC, Autodesk, Hexagon, Altair
 

Deployment Strategist - onsite (2)


businessStaff Great
location_onSan Francisco, California, United States
attach_money150000.00 USD - 200000.00 USD

Job Description

 

Our client, an AI manufacturing startup, is seeking a Deployment Strategist with 2-5 years of experience to own and grow its customer relationships as it enters its first go-to-market push. You'll be a polished, tactful, technically literate relationship builder who thrives on the road. You'll help ensure customers succeed with Quartz, an agentic AI-powered CAD environment and the first AI system to pass an industry-standard physical engineering benchmark.

What You'll Do

  • Travel to customer sites 25-75% of the time to deepen relationships and uncover pain points
  • Drive renewals and expansions, and help move promising prospects closer to signing
  • Translate customer feedback into clear asks for engineering and product, then close the loop quickly
  • Debrief in SF with the GTM, sales, product, and engineering teams between customer trips
  • Work closely with the CEO-led GTM team on a high-impact, zero-to-one commercial motion

Dealbreakers

Work experience (one of the following):

  • Archetype A: Management consultants from McKinsey, Bain, or BCG
  • Archetype B: Customer-facing operators at VC-backed startups (Series A to Series D) who have owned end-to-end deployments

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree from a top 25 school

Logistics:

  • Willingness and ability to travel 25%-75% of the time to customer sites
  • Ability to work on-site 5 days a week in San Francisco, CA

Baseline Requirements

  • Seniority: 2-5 years of experience as a deployment strategist
  • Hard skills: AI fluency (e.g., Claude, Cursor, building agents, scripts, or workflows)
  • Soft skills: Tactful, well-spoken communicator who can build strong customer relationships and clearly convey customer needs to internal teams

Nice-to-Haves

  • Previous experience at companies focused on mechanical engineering or manufacturing

Fee - 14% Guarantee - 90 days