Senior Deployment Strategist — Industrial AI, On-Site Zürich

Academic Key; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethon is seeking a Senior Deployment Strategist to lead customer deployments from sign-off to full plant-wide rollout in Zürich. You will own go-live, onboarding, and change management, turning workshop insights into scalable deployment strategies across multiple sites.

You will map KPI drivers, build business cases for expansions, and work closely with Engineering, Product, and the commercial team to maximize impact on cost, quality, and productivity.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in demanding environments: consulting, enterprise tech deployment, or shopfloor roles.
• Experience managing complex stakeholder ecosystems from operators to C-suite sponsors.
• Proven ability to run change management or adoption programs to drive tool usage.
• Builder mindset: hands-on problem solving and rapid iteration.
• Willingness to travel 30–50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own the deployment: ensure go-live on time and train the customer team for self-sufficiency.
• Turn shopfloor problems into quantified business cases and guide deployment priorities.
• Drive account expansion by identifying unsolved problems and new use cases.
• Be on-site in factories to capture insights and validate solutions on the floor.
• Provide customer feedback to Engineering and Product to improve the platform.
• Collaborate with GTM, Sales, Engineering, and the commercial team to secure deployments and expansions.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Change management

Delivery mindset

Travel 30-50%

Education

Engineering degree (chemical/mechanical/electrical)

Job description

Ethon is seeking a Senior Deployment Strategist to lead customer deployments from sign-off to full plant-wide rollout in Zürich. You will own go-live, onboarding, and change management, turning workshop insights into scalable deployment strategies across multiple sites.

You will map KPI drivers, build business cases for expansions, and work closely with Engineering, Product, and the commercial team to maximize impact on cost, quality, and productivity.