Lead Strategist

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Forward-deployed strategist owning discovery, delivery, adoption, and expansion of AI banking platform deployments. Partnering with engineers and bank executives to ship enterprise technology programs.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the large financial institution relationship as primary point of contact
  • Build long-term relationships with bank engineering, architecture, and business leadership
  • Embed with bank teams to understand pain points and modernization priorities
  • Identify workloads where the AI-enabled banking platform creates the most value
  • Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers to scope technical work
  • Own end-to-end delivery from proof of value through go-live, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and resourcing
  • Run steering committees with executive sponsors
  • Train bank engineers and drive adoption across product lines and business units
  • Support sales with demos, business case development, and platform education
  • Translate technical complexity into business impact and deliver successful enterprise deployments

Requirements:

  • 6+ years in a customer-facing, delivery-oriented role
  • Proven track record managing complex, multi-workstream technical programs with hard deadlines, regulatory constraints, and multiple stakeholder groups
  • Technical fluency, including understanding technology architectures and data flow diagrams
  • Experience driving adoption and ensuring technology changes stick inside large organizations
  • AI fluency and ability to articulate the benefits of AI
  • Track record driving complex technology programs to production
  • Preference for knowledge of financial transaction flows, core banking systems, or banking technology
  • Ability to operate autonomously in matrixed bank environments
  • Ability to present to CxOs with clarity and confidence
  • Willingness to travel to client sites as needed, approximately 25–50% depending on engagement phase

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation
  • Exciting career opportunity
  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Drug test for conditional US offers