Deployment Strategist

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Deployment Strategist leading strategic enterprise AI deployments for Salt AI, which builds compliance-first AI orchestration for regulated industries. Scoping, directing technical teams, and delivering customer go-lives.

Responsibilities:

  • Own strategic enterprise deployments end to end, from initial scoping through production go-live and customer self-sufficiency
  • Define named workflows, fixed timelines, engagement exit criteria, scope, capacity, and SOW approvals
  • Partner with Sales on expansion while controlling committed scope, timeline, and capacity
  • Build and run engagement plans with milestones, workstreams, owners, dependencies, and weekly status cadence
  • Drive customer-side dependencies including data access, security and IT reviews, environment provisioning, and stakeholder availability
  • Manage risks, issues, escalations, delivery quality, acceptance criteria, evaluations, testing, validation, production readiness, go-live, and hypercare
  • Lead customer enablement through training, documentation, and change management
  • Track effort, budget, and capacity and flag timeline or cost risks
  • Provide leadership, prioritization, and technical direction to Forward Deployed Engineers and Customer Solutions Engineers
  • Lead executive communication with customer sponsors
  • Support post-go-live technical outcomes, adoption, and scoping of subsequent workflows
  • Run post-engagement debriefs and feed field learning into product and platform priorities
  • Build reusable delivery patterns, templates, integration components, and reference architectures
  • Collaborate with the account’s Executive Advisor to bring domain expertise into scoping and validate outputs

Requirements:

  • 5+ years owning complex enterprise technical deployments end to end
  • Experience as a forward deployed engineer, technical program manager, solutions architect, or delivery lead at a technical consultancy or enterprise software company
  • Track record running multi-workstream enterprise deployments to on-time go-live, with critical-path customer dependencies
  • Technical fluency in cloud architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and integration patterns
  • Engineering or technical background required
  • Ability to enforce scope discipline with senior stakeholders
  • Strong written communication and document hygiene
  • Executive presence with VP- and C-level customer sponsors
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Willingness to travel as needed for client implementation work
  • Preferred: experience with on-premise, VPC, or air-gapped deployments in regulated industries
  • Preferred: familiarity with GxP, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar compliance and validation frameworks
  • Preferred: background at a company running a forward deployed engineering model
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows, model deployment, or agent orchestration
  • Preferred: track record turning one-off engagements into repeatable delivery motions

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary based on location and experience
  • Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, mental health
  • Fully remote role
  • Collaborating primarily within U.S. time zones
  • Inclusive team committed to diverse perspectives