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Forward Deployed Strategist

Cursor· Careers / SpaceXSI
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Hybrid (US)full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Strategist to own strategic customer engagements from workshop to delivery, combining technical credibility in AI/LLMs with executive relationship management to translate business outcomes into production-ready deployments.

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 rather than letting engagements drift
  • 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 seat where you owned scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI-production workflows
  • Understanding of agentic coding and LLMs well enough to engage with senior engineers on production behavior and resilient workflows
  • Comfortable hands-on with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform config, and ability to read enough Python / JS-TS to partner with an FDE
  • Experience shipping AI-native workflows beyond prototypes and ability to distinguish production constraints from nice-to-haves
  • Ability to navigate unfamiliar enterprise engineering organizations and scope high-leverage interventions delivering value in weeks
  • Executive presence to own C-suite relationships and technical credibility to earn trust with engineering leads
  • Domain depth in FSI, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare/life sciences, or semiconductor is a strong plus

Skills

Required:Solutions architecture and delivery scopingAgentic coding and LLM understandingCursor workflows and platform configurationPython / JS-TS familiarity
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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