Deployment Strategist Intern
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data‑driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply‑chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
As a Deployment Strategist Intern, you’ll work with a diverse, generative, and creative team of Engineers, Product Designers, and other Deployment Strategists to deploy software against the most important problems our world faces. Your mission is to synthesize disconnected streams of thought into a cohesive understanding of what the problem is, what the data means, what the product needs, what users are motivated by, and where the impact could be.
Responsibilities
- Go onsite and meet with customer analysts to understand the critical questions they need to answer and locate their biggest struggles
- Build a case for gaining access to the relevant datasets, and work with Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate the data into a stable and extensible pipeline
- Create and lead training sessions to ensure that the product is meeting the needs of a range of users, and is being used widely enough to have concrete impact on our partners' operations
- Present the results of our work and proposals for future work to audiences ranging from analysts to C‑suite executives
- Embed with our Software Engineering and Product Design teams to incorporate what you saw in the field into cross‑Palantir product offerings
- Build and deliver demos to new and existing customers
- Scope out potential engagements in new industries and in increasingly expanding locations around the world
Qualifications
- Extraordinary ability to take on open‑ended problems in unstructured environments
- Adaptive and introspective; willingness to learn, teach, lead and follow
- Availability to travel as needed. Varies by location and team
- Experience with programming, scripting or statistical packages (e.g. Python, R, Matlab, SQL) is a plus