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Forward Deployed Strategist

Cursor· SpaceXSI / Super Intelligence team
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Hybrid (Multiple locations (depending on role))Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on owning strategic customer engagements from initial workshop to delivery, translating business problems into scoped, ROI-driven projects, and maintaining executive relationships while guiding technical delivery and adoption of AI-native workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Scope: 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, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints to validate that every engagement is technically feasible
  • Deliver: Work side by side with the FDE on the technical build — own the configuration layer including workflows, settings, integrations, and platform tooling that don't require heavy custom code while the FDE owns the deeper production builds
  • Own technical enablement and adoption: run hands-on training, build playbooks and reference workflows, and coach the customer's team until they're self-sufficient
  • Adoption is measured by what their users do without you in the room
  • Monitor technical feasibility throughout delivery, adjusting scope with the sponsor when constraints emerge
  • Identify and scope expansion opportunities as they surface during delivery, in partnership with the account team
  • Escalate product gaps, integration friction, and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering with enough specificity to drive roadmap decisions
  • Build reusable playbooks that make the broader FDE org more capable over time
  • Own the executive relationship: Establish and maintain the executive relationship on engagements, serving as the primary point of contact from kickoff through handoff
  • Sell the vision and the plan to C-suite stakeholders who need to believe in both the outcome and the team delivering it
  • Translate between business outcomes and technical implementation in both directions — for the sponsor and for the build team

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or an Engagement Manager role with ownership of scoping and delivery in AI-production workflows
  • Understanding of agentic coding and LLMs at a level to engage with senior engineers about production behavior and resilient workflows
  • Comfortable hands-on with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform config; ability to read Python / JS-TS to partner with an FDE
  • Experience shipping AI-native workflows beyond prototypes and ability to distinguish production constraints from nice-to-have features
  • Ability to rapidly find high-leverage interventions in unfamiliar enterprise engineering environments and scope value-delivering projects in weeks
  • Executive presence to own C-suite relationships and technical credibility with engineering leads
  • Domain depth in FSI, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare/life sciences, or semiconductor is a strong plus

Skills

Required:Strategic project scopingTechnical discovery and architectureHands-on config and workflow toolingExecutive relationship management
Nice to have:Reading Python/JS-TS
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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