Founding Deployment Strategist

Spectrum Search; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum Search is partnering with an early-stage AI technology company to recruit its first Deployment Strategist in London. You will lead live deployments, translate operational challenges into product requirements, and help build the playbook for future implementations.

The role sits at the intersection of strategy, implementation, product, and enterprise stakeholder management, requiring comfort in uncharted processes and regular UK travel.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience deploying enterprise software.
• Ability to convert customer requirements into engineering tasks.
• Comfortable with ambiguous environments and early-stage processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end enterprise pilot deployments.
• Coordinate with customers and engineers across UK.
• Translate workflows into product and engineering requirements.
• Build demonstrations or prototypes using AI tools.
• Establish deployment playbooks for future customers.
• Travel to customer sites as needed across the UK.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Enterprise deployments

AI prototyping

Requirements translation

Client-facing

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel willingness

Tools

Claude

Cursor

AI development tools

Job description

Spectrum Search is partnered with an early-stage AI technology company deploying enterprise software into complex, regulated environments. The company is building its deployment capability in London and is looking for its first dedicated Deployment Strategist to work directly with founders, engineers and senior customer stakeholders.

About the opportunity

This is a founding deployment role with significant ownership over how enterprise customers adopt and expand the product. You will lead live customer deployments, translate operational challenges into clear product requirements and help establish the playbook for future implementations.

The role sits at the intersection of strategy, implementation, product and enterprise stakeholder management. It suits someone comfortable operating without an established playbook who can bring structure to ambiguous customer environments.

The role

You will own the non-engineering side of multiple enterprise pilots, working closely with customers and the internal engineering team to move deployments from initial implementation through to broader adoption.

You will be expected to understand complex workflows quickly, communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and turn customer requirements into actionable priorities for technical teams. You will also use AI tools to build prototypes and demonstrations that support customer conversations.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of active enterprise pilot deployments
• Manage customer communication, meetings, data gathering and stakeholder coordination
• Build trusted relationships with senior enterprise stakeholders and navigate resistance to new technology
• Translate complex business workflows into clear product and engineering requirements
• Partner closely with engineers throughout implementation and deployment
• Drive successful adoption and support the progression of pilots into broader deployments
• Identify opportunities to expand the product into additional workflows and areas within customer organisations
• Build product demonstrations and lightweight prototypes using AI development tools
• Create structured deployment processes and contribute to the operating playbook for future customers
• Strong experience in enterprise software deployment, implementation, strategy consulting, investment banking or another highly analytical client-facing environment
• Demonstrable ability to get software adopted within complex enterprise organisations
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including confidence working directly with senior decision-makers
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability in ambiguous situations
• Ability to translate business requirements effectively between commercial stakeholders and engineering teams
• Strong written and verbal communication with disciplined follow-through
• Practical fluency with modern artificial intelligence tools, including the ability to build demonstrations or prototypes using tools such as Claude or Cursor
• Comfortable working in an early-stage environment where processes are still being established
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer offices across the UK

Nice-to-haves

• Deployment Strategist, Forward Deployed or Implementation experience within an early-stage or scaling technology company
• Experience taking deployments from initial pilot through to wider enterprise adoption
• Experience working with insurance, financial services or another regulated enterprise sector
• Hands-on experience building personal AI projects, prototypes or hackathon projects

Location and remote setup

This is a full-time, London-based role requiring five days per week on-site, alongside regular travel to customer offices across the UK. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are available.