Forward Deployed Strategist AI (MBB) $230K + Equity | New York, USA

This Forward Deployed Strategist AI role puts you at the centre of a very well funded AI company’s push into the Fortune 500, selling and then personally delivering seven and eight figure automation pilots inside the world’s largest regulated businesses. Snow on the L train. You sold it. Now go build it. Bagel on the desk. — Haiku by Keiran, your friendly recruiter 📍 New York City — Where Your Career Takes Flight We are running this one discreetly and will name the company on our call. What we can say: they raised big this year at a nine-figure valuation, from investors you would recognise instantly, and the team is still small enough that equity means something. They automate the processes long considered impossible to automate — the hundred-step, judgment-heavy, half-in-someone’s-head workflows big companies still run on people, because code could never quite handle them and language models alone are too unpredictable to trust. Their system does both: the reliability of software, the judgment of a model, and the ability to adapt when the rules change. It runs in production today inside some of the largest regulated businesses in the world, at very high accuracy, across hundreds of thousands of live runs. Every pilot they have started has converted to full production. Every single one. That is not a pipeline, it is a conveyor belt, and right now there is nobody to run it. Manhattan from above | New York City at night 🚀 What You Actually Do as a Forward Deployed Strategist AI

• Take warm introductions from the CEO and sell seven and eight figure pilots to Fortune 500 executives
• Then deliver what you sold — most people in this seat never get to do both
• Scope the deployment by learning a client’s process better than the people who run it
• Align a stakeholder web running from the operations floor to the C-suite
• Lead a cross-functional team, including the engineers building it, and take the pilot into production
• Go find the next five processes in the building and own the commercial relationship end to end

It is not consulting, because the deck is replaced by working software and you stay for the outcome. It is not enterprise sales, because you are accountable long after the ink dries. It is not a delivery job, because you carry the number. New York City — Central Park from above 🎯 Who We’re Looking For in a Forward Deployed Strategist AI (Two Paths In) Archetype One: The Consultant Who Wants to See It Ship

• 3+ years at MBB, or 4+ years at a Tier 2 firm with a promotion to prove it
• Have run enterprise-wide change, transformation or post-merger integration work
• Have stood in front of a client executive committee without a partner in the room
• A technical or technical-adjacent brain: engineering, computer science, maths, physics, or enough time near build teams to hold your own on implementation
• Tired of the deck being the deliverable — here the deliverable is a system running in production on Monday, with your name on it

Archetype Two: The Operator From Big Tech or a Scale-Up

• Enterprise AE, deployment strategist, GTM lead, BizOps or technical product manager at a company like Google, or a Series C+ business selling into the Fortune 500
• Forward-deployed experience at a big enterprise data platform is the closest thing to this job in existence
• Founders already know what owning all of it feels like
• Have carried a quota or a commercial target and hit it, and taken something from pilot to full rollout with numbers you can name out loud

MBA and Masters candidates actively encouraged. Senior track: 6+ years with formal enterprise ownership. Junior track: 2 to 5 years, customer-facing, with top-tier delivery behind you. Both open now. ✅ In Every Case, a Forward Deployed Strategist AI Here

• Personally owned enterprise client relationships, not supported someone who did
• Can scope, negotiate and close
• Can lead a team through a deployment that went sideways in week six and bring it back
• Judgment under ambiguity, because the playbook you need has not been written and you are the one writing it

❌ Not the Right Fit If

• Your career is finance, private equity, banking or hedge funds with no customer-facing chapter
• You advised on client relationships rather than owned them
• Your background is purely functional or purely technical with no consulting foundation
• You would prefer to work from home — this is a lovely role for someone else

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