Forward Deployed Strategist

About the role

SpaceXSI is looking for a Forward Deployed Strategist to own its most strategic customer engagements, from the first workshop through delivery. You will sit with executive sponsors, surface the highest-value use cases, turn them into tightly scoped projects and stay accountable for the outcome, working with the FDE. You typically work in a pod of one Strategist and 1-2 FDEs, owning the executive relationship and the shape of delivery while staying hands-on at the configuration layer.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with customer executive sponsors to scope FDE projects, turning ambiguous business problems into time-boxed deliverables with clear ROI
• Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints
• Work side by side with the FDE on the technical build, covering the configuration layer (workflows, settings, integrations, platform tooling) while the FDE owns 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 are self-sufficient
• Monitor technical feasibility throughout delivery, adjust scope with the sponsor when constraints emerge, and identify expansion opportunities
• Escalate product gaps, integration friction and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering so they can drive roadmap decisions
• Build reusable playbooks that make the broader FDE org more capable over time
• Own the executive relationship: act as the primary point of contact from kickoff through handoff, sell the vision and plan to C-suite stakeholders, and translate between business outcomes and technical implementation

Required profile

• 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting or an Engagement Manager seat, owning scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI-production workflows
• Comfortable with agentic coding and LLMs, able to hold your own with senior engineers on how they behave in production
• Hands-on experience with AI-native workflows past the prototype stage, able to tell a real production constraint from a nice-to-have
• Able to enter an unfamiliar enterprise engineering organization, find the highest-leverage intervention quickly and scope something that delivers value in weeks
• Executive presence to own the C-suite relationship and technical credibility to earn trust with engineering leads
• Strong domain depth in FSI, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare/life sciences or semiconductors is a strong plus

Required skills

• Understanding of agentic coding and LLMs
• Grok workflows, integrations and platform configuration
• Enough Python and JavaScript/TypeScript to partner with an FDE