Deployment Strategist

Databricks

CSQ327R152 About the Team The FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) team is a new, strategic initiative sponsored from the CEO and Founders down. Our mission is to win C-suite-sponsored, high-value AI opportunities by selling and delivering outcomes, not just a platform. You will be part of the founding team, embedded with our most strategic customers from the very first sales call, all the way through to a production-ready solution. You will be the "product manager" for the customer's problem, responsible for the "why" and "what," while our FDEs (Engineers) will be your partners responsible for the "how." Role Description As a Deployment Strategist (DS), you are the critical bridge between a customer's multi-million dollar business problem and Databricks' technical solution. You are a "product manager for the field," owning the entire non-technical lifecycle of an FDE engagement. You will partner with our Account Executives to build C-suite trust, perform deep discovery to map the customer's political and technical landscape, and, most importantly, scope the value. You will define the Minimum Viable Product for a pilot, write the PRD that guides the engineering team, and manage the project to a successful landing. This role requires a rare mix of C-suite gravitas, deep product-style thinking, and a hands-on, "get it done" execution mindset. The impact you will have: * C-Suite Scoping & Value Definition: Partner with Sales to perform deep discovery, map the customer's organization, quantify the business value ($10M+ problems), and define the pilot (MVP, success criteria, timeline). * End-to-End Product Ownership: Act as the "CEO" of the project by authoring the PRD, prioritizing the engineering backlog, relentlessly managing scope, and acting as the primary hands-on QA tester. * Agile Project Execution & Delivery: Drive the FDE build team via an agile process, manage all stakeholder communications from the C-suite to individual engineers, and act as the "escalation manager" to unblock all technical or political issues. * Solution Launch & Landing: Own the "Day 0" launch, manage the war room, and drive the solution from launch to full adoption by capturing user feedback, iterating, and proving the defined business value. * Strategic Handoff & Growth: Scope the ongoing maintenance plan, create customer documentation/training, and leverage your trusted advisor status to identify the next high-value FDE engagement. What we look for: * Executive Presence & Communication: A "Trusted Advisor" with C-suite gravitas and superb communication skills. You are opinionated, humble, and can build rapport and drive decisions in days, not weeks. * Product & Strategy Mindset: A "Product Thinker" and "Systems Thinker" who can perform a SWOT analysis, understand a competitive landscape, and define "what" to build and "why." * Relentless Execution: An "Execution Driver" with a "Hands-On" mentality. You are relentless, an expert at escalation, and willing to do the unglamorous work to get the project done. * Ideal Experience: Proven experience as a Deployment Strategist or in a high-growth startup environment in a hands-on ‘builder’ or ‘founder’ capacity. Alternatively, strong background in senior, client-facing product or delivery roles within leading technology companies or top-tier consultancies. * Proven Skills: Demonstrated experience in value-based scoping (TCO/ROI), managing agile software projects, writing PRDs, and the ability/interest to travel up to 50%. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Seamflow

About Seamflow We’re removing one of the last great barriers to progress in the physical world. While software moves fast, industries like healthcare, aerospace, and energy are still slowed by outdated, manual systems. Our vision is to unlock enormous value for Testing, Inspection, and Certification customers globally. The market is vast, the problem is real, and we're just getting started. We're rapidly growing following our 14x oversubscribed $4.5M seed round backed by Tier 1 investors including Northzone and Initialized Capital. These funds backed the founders of Coinbase, Reddit, Klarna, and Spotify. We're seeing significant traction in the market; demand is outstripping our supply, and we're building fast to keep up.   The Team Our team includes AI researchers from world-leading academic institutions like Johns Hopkins, MIPT, and UCL, former founding engineers at unicorn startups, and alumni of X, Google, Amazon, and Yandex, alongside former leaders from McKinsey and Bain. We look for people who move fast, think clearly, and hold themselves to a high bar. The standard here is genuinely high, and we're looking for someone who raises it further.   The Role As a Deployment Strategist, you'll own our client deployments end to end: from the moment a pilot is signed to the moment the client can't imagine working without us. You'll embed with customers, map their workflows, configure Seamflow around those workflows, and drive adoption. You'll partner closely with the founding team, sales, engineering, and the customer. We're looking for someone who combines consulting-grade structure with genuine curiosity. You're great with people and build trust quickly, whether you're in a room with a frontline reviewer or a VP. You operate independently, take ownership without waiting to be told, and bring an entrepreneurial instinct to every account. Every successful deployment is a reference account that unlocks the next deployments.   What You’ll Do * Own deployments: Design and run structured deployment plans for enterprise pilots, breaking ambiguous client problems into clear milestones, owners, and deadlines. * Define our deployment strategy: As one of our first deployment hires, you'll define how Seamflow deploys. You won't just execute a playbook, you'll write it. * Build the team beneath you: You'll support hiring and shape the deployment function as it scales, turning yourself from an individual operator into the leader of a function. * Map workflows: Go deep into testing, inspection and certification environments. You will need to understand the customer's documents, systems, and pain points, and translate that into how we configure and improve the product. * Drive adoption: Build trust with senior stakeholders, identify champions, remove blockers, and make sure the people doing the work actually use the tool. * Feed the product: Work closely with engineering to turn what you learn in the field into product requirements.   What We’re Looking For * 3–5 years (junior manager or above) in consulting, customer-facing deployment or implementation roles, or operational roles in enterprise B2B. * AI-native: You already run your work through AI and operate at 10x as a result. You reach for these tools by default, not as a novelty, and you're constantly finding new ways to compress what used to take days into hours. * Structured and organised: you can run multiple workstreams across multiple clients without dropping anything. * High emotional intelligence: comfortable in a room with an EVP in the morning and a technical reviewer in the afternoon, and able to win the trust of both. * Fast learner with real intellectual curiosity. * Bias to action: you'd rather ship a good plan today than a perfect one next week. * Strong with slides, Excel, and written communication. * Willing to travel to client sites across Europe when deployments need it. * Someone who wants to be in the room, not on a call. This role is in-person, full time at our Shoreditch office. * Nice to have: European languages   What You’ll Get * A huge amount of responsibility and trust from day one, with the autonomy to run your deployments your way * The opportunity to define a function and grow a team beneath you as we scale * Competitive compensation package including equity and a performance-based bonus * Hands-on exposure to every part of building a business * A team that moves fast, works hard, and backs each other fully * Competitive compensation package * Lunch and dinner covered, 24/7 gym access, relocation support if needed

Pigment

Join Pigment: The AI Platform Redefining Business Planning   Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team—from Finance to HR—to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time.   Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Snowflake, Siemens, and DPD use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.   With a team of 600+ across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.   At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo—all while working as one team. If you're driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you. What you’ll do We are looking for an AI Deployment Strategist to join our growing team. In this role, you will work directly with customers to design, build, and deploy AI-powered planning solutions using Pigment. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of engineering, data, and business problem-solving. You will own the end-to-end implementation of Pigment’s AI capabilities for strategic customers — from translating business problems into models, to deploying agentic AI solutions in production. You will play a key role in shaping how organizations leverage Pigment to transform their planning processes, while acting as a critical feedback loop between customers and our Product and Engineering teams.     What you’ll work on Build & deploy AI-powered solutions Translate complex business problems into scalable Pigment models using AI agents, formulas, dimensions, and advanced logic Design, build, and deploy custom AI agents tailored to customer workflows and decision-making processes Own end-to-end implementation of Pigment for key customers Work directly with customers Partner with business and technical stakeholders to rethink processes and design AI-driven solutions Act as a trusted advisor, guiding customers on best practices  Drive adoption and ensure customers maximize value from Pigment   Prototype & innovate Develop prototypes and experimental AI use cases to solve emerging customer needs Test and iterate on new approaches to agent-based planning and automation   Bridge product, engineering, and customers Collaborate closely with Customer Success, Solutions Architects, and Product teams Translate customer feedback into clear product requirements and specifications Contribute to the evolution of Pigment’s AI capabilities Enable and scale Train users and teams on Pigment features, modeling best practices, and scalable system design Help define repeatable patterns and frameworks for AI deployments across customers     What we’re looking for Required Engineering or computer science degree from top tier institution 2–5 years in a technical, client-facing, or implementation role, such as: Forward Deployed Engineer Data Scientist / AI Engineer Solutions Architect / Solutions Engineer Technical or Implementation Consultant Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in: Data modeling, analytics, or business logic design AI / ML concepts or applied data workflows Proficiency with: Formulas, logic, and structured modeling Programming (Python, SQL, or similar is a plus) Familiarity with: SaaS platforms or planning tools  APIs, data pipelines, and system integration concepts Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects in fast-paced environments   Nice to have Background in FP&A, financial modeling, or business planning workflows Prior experience with Pigment or similar platforms Additional European language(s) outside of English     What success looks like Customers successfully deploy and adopt AI-powered planning workflows Innovative agentic AI solutions are built and scaled across use cases You are seen as a trusted technical partner by customers Strong feedback loops drive continuous product improvement Repeatable patterns emerge to scale AI deployments across Pigment customers     #LI-HYBRID #LI-LS1