Forward Deployed Strategist

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Forward Deployed Strategist based in Canada. As a Forward Deployed Strategist, you will embed directly with enterprise customers to turn ambitious AI initiatives into measurable business outcomes. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, product, technology, and change management, helping customers identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases. The role combines consulting, product management, project leadership, and hands-on AI enablement in a highly dynamic environment. You will translate customer needs into clear requirements for engineering teams while maintaining alignment across technical and executive stakeholders. A major focus will be helping teams move beyond experimentation by building practical AI workflows, driving adoption, and establishing repeatable processes. You will also identify opportunities to expand successful deployments and bring field insights back to product and deployment teams. This is a remote, high-autonomy role suited to a structured, technically fluent strategist who enjoys solving ambiguous problems and working closely with customers. Accountabilities: - Embed with enterprise customers as a strategic partner, operating as an extension of their teams from contract signature through measurable business impact. - Lead discovery efforts to understand organizational structures, business challenges, stakeholder priorities, and opportunities for AI adoption. - Act as the product manager for customer AI initiatives by identifying high-value use cases, defining success metrics, and establishing practical implementation plans. - Translate customer requests into clear, prioritized requirements for engineering teams while providing the underlying business context. - Distinguish between what customers initially request and the underlying problems they need to solve.

- Develop and manage project plans covering timelines, dependencies, risks, milestones, and stakeholder responsibilities. - Keep executives and other key stakeholders aligned through concise updates, executive summaries, presentations, roadmaps, and strategic recommendations. - Facilitate workshops, office hours, and hands-on sessions that help non-technical teams understand and build practical AI workflows. - Teach teams how to determine which tasks to delegate to AI, break complex work into agent-compatible steps, and evaluate when AI outputs can be trusted. - Develop enablement materials, curricula, guides, and playbooks tailored to different teams and levels of technical expertise. - Monitor adoption, usage, and outcomes while identifying and addressing blockers that could prevent deployments from reaching production. - Turn successful initial use cases into broader organizational rollouts and additional opportunities. - Identify opportunities for account expansion and additional scope based on demonstrated customer value. - Capture field insights and translate them into actionable feedback for partner product teams and internal deployment methodologies. - Collaborate closely with engineering, data, product, and customer stakeholders to ensure solutions are technically feasible and aligned with business objectives. Requirements: - 3+ years of experience in client-facing consulting, strategy, product management, or project management, with a track record of owning projects end to end. - Consulting experience with a technical, data, or AI focus at an MBB, Big Four, or equivalent organization is preferred. - Experience working in a forward-deployed role or at an AI-focused startup is highly valuable. - Strong hands-on experience using LLMs, AI agents, and AI workflow tools in professional settings, with a practical understanding of their capabilities and limitations.