Forward-Deployed AI Platform Lead

Harmattan AI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmattan AI, a next-generation defense prime, is seeking a Forward Deployed Program Lead to own partnerships from strategy to delivery in our data platform initiatives. You will embed with customer teams, map stakeholders, define multi-year roadmaps, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers to deliver high-impact AI use cases, while shaping product direction and organizational growth.

You will maintain close collaboration with customers, define success metrics, and drive

Qualifications

• A product mindset: you can understand a user’s need, work through high ambiguity, and turn it into clear requirements for a use case.
• Project leadership: a track record of delivering end-to-end in fast-paced environments, against ambitious deadlines.
• Forward-deployed experience: you know how to navigate large organizations, open doors, and grow a footprint with a customer.
• An analytical and engineering mindset: you are comfortable working with data and AI, and credible with engineers.
• Self-starter with a high degree of autonomy.
• Humility: you will represent an agile startup inside a large, well-established organization, and you know how to do it without ruffling feathers.
• Frequent on-site presence with the customer.
• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Own the project partnership end-to-end: grow our footprint with the customer through new use cases, and build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the partnership: a prioritized list of use cases, the architecture to deliver them, and the pitch to support them.
• Run joint governance with the customer: communicate outcomes, prepare monthly steering committees and demos, and keep the customer team aligned.
• Coordinate development across use cases: prioritize the work of the Forward Deployed Software Engineers, collect and remove blockers, and review their work against the quality bar.
• Work with the customer’s IT teams to unblock data access and the technical dependencies of the development team.
• Meet the customer’s operational teams to understand their pain points, and refine the value proposition of each use case.
• Analyze operational data in the project platform to understand the problem at hand before building.
• Define use case deliverables and requirements with the customer-side project manager.
• Feed what you learn back to the Product and R&D teams to shape the platform.

Skills

Product mindset

Project leadership

Forward-deployed

Analytical mindset

Engineering mindset

Self-starter

Humility

On-site presence

English proficiency

Job description

Harmattan AI, a next-generation defense prime, is seeking a Forward Deployed Program Lead to own partnerships from strategy to delivery in our data platform initiatives. You will embed with customer teams, map stakeholders, define multi-year roadmaps, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers to deliver high-impact AI use cases, while shaping product direction and organizational growth.

You will maintain close collaboration with customers, define success metrics, and drive