Forward Deployment Strategist - India

Maxima AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) for US employees

Unlimited PTO

Lunch in the office

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Maxima seeks a Forward Deployment Strategist based in Bangalore to guide enterprise customers through complex implementations, collaborating with CFOs, controllers, and accounting ops teams to deploy the platform and achieve measurable close-efficiency gains.

You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success to shape deployment methodology, drive faster deployments, and translate finance workflows into concrete deployment plans.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in enterprise customer-facing technical roles such as solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical implementation.
• A track record of leading complex, high-stakes software deployments at large enterprises.
• Strong understanding of financial systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Workday, or experience working in or with finance operations teams.
• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, guiding engineers and finance stakeholders toward a common solution.
• Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing scalable processes and standardizing workflows.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high degree of ownership.
• Curiosity about AI and what it can do for enterprise operations.

Responsibilities

• Own technical and operational delivery for multiple enterprise implementations, so each customer reaches its automation and close-efficiency goals
• Act as the primary interface between customers, Product, and Engineering, translating accounting workflows into well-defined implementation plans
• Manage deployment timelines, dependencies, and milestones, removing blockers and coordinating technical resources
• Create standardized frameworks, tools, and templates for deploying Maxima across customers and industries
• Support pre-sales scoping and discovery to define requirements, feasibility, and implementation plans for enterprise prospects
• Bring field insight into roadmap priorities, capacity planning, and future platform capabilities
• Identify patterns across deployments, capture best practices, and improve delivery velocity and customer outcomes

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Translating technical to business

Curiosity about AI

Ownership in fast-paced environment

Tools

NetSuite

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Job description

About Maxima

Nobody went into accounting to spend the first week of every month matching transactions by hand. Maxima was built so they don't have to. Our agents do the accounting work itself: journal entries, transaction matching, reconciliations, and flux analysis, in real time and to SOX standards. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human. Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our founders oversaw the finance org at Rubrik and built the month-end close systems at Twitter and Netflix. We’ve raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Audacious Ventures, and we’re backed by finance leaders at OpenAI, Rubrik, and Vanta. Maxima runs in production at Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, and SpotOn. We are early, we are growing fast, and we are hiring people who would rather build the category than join it. Here is one way to do that.

The role

Deployment is where Maxima proves itself. As a Forward Deployment Strategist, you will guide enterprise customers through complex implementations and make sure they get measurable results, working directly with CFOs, controllers, and accounting operations teams to deploy the platform, automate their close, and deliver efficiency gains they can point to.

The role is cross-functional by nature. You will work daily with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, shape the deployment methodology itself, lead implementations, and be the bridge between what customers need and what the product does. Success looks like faster deployments, stronger adoption, and field insight turned into repeatable playbooks.

What you'll do

• Own technical and operational delivery for multiple enterprise implementations, so each customer reaches its automation and close-efficiency goals

• Act as the primary interface between customers, Product, and Engineering, translating accounting workflows into well-defined implementation plans

• Manage deployment timelines, dependencies, and milestones, removing blockers and coordinating technical resources

• Create standardized frameworks, tools, and templates for deploying Maxima across customers and industries

• Support pre-sales scoping and discovery to define requirements, feasibility, and implementation plans for enterprise prospects

• Bring field insight into roadmap priorities, capacity planning, and future platform capabilities

• Identify patterns across deployments, capture best practices, and improve delivery velocity and customer outcomes

What we're looking for

• 3 or more years in enterprise customer-facing technical roles such as solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical implementation

• A track record of leading complex, high-stakes software deployments at large enterprises

• Strong understanding of financial systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Workday, or experience working in or with finance operations teams

• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, guiding engineers and finance stakeholders toward a common solution

• Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills

• Experience designing scalable processes and standardizing workflows

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high degree of ownership

• Curiosity about AI and what it can do for enterprise operations

Where and how you'll work

This role will be based in Bangalore and will be five days in office.

Why join Maxima

• The work. Agentic accounting is a category being defined right now, and Maxima is one of the companies defining it. The product does the accounting work itself, so what you build, sell, or deploy shows up in a customer's books

• The people. Founders who ran the finance org at Rubrik and built the close systems at Twitter and Netflix. Engineers from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Controllers and accountants on the team who have closed books themselves. Small teams in San Mateo and Toronto that work in the same room, say what they think, and hold a high bar

• The benefits. Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits

• The process. A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage

A note on AI

We build AI and we expect you to use it. Use it to research us and to prepare. In live conversations we want your own thinking in your own words, and if you use AI on a take-home exercise, tell us where it helped.

Equal opportunity

Maxima is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we will arrange it.