Client Deployment Lead, AI (EMEA)

Valis; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base compensation

Performance-based bonus

First team on new function

Job summary

Valis is seeking a Client Deployment Lead, AI, to own platform deployments from discovery to go-live and adoption. You will collaborate with client leadership and a forward-deployed engineer to turn CEO AI ambitions into measurable efficiency gains.

The role suits someone with transformation program experience, strong tech fluency with data models, APIs, and LLM tools, and a high-action mindset. Hybrid work with on-site client time is required.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in transformation or end-to-end implementation programs.
• Ability to independently manage multiple stakeholders on complex projects.
• Strong organization, project and change management skills.
• Experience working with C-level stakeholders or founders.
• Comfort with data models, APIs, integrations, LLM tools and agents.
• High agency, bias for action and interest in AI products.
• STEM degree or relevant technical experience.
• readiness to start as soon as possible.
• Candidates from other EMEA countries welcome apart from preferred locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and map how the client company works: structure, processes, decisions, data.
• Scope deployments, success metrics and timelines with the executive sponsor.
• Run delivery with a forward-deployed engineer and get the client live fast.
• Drive adoption across leadership, employees and core processes.
• Assist the CEO with AI transformation: what to automate, redesign, operating model changes.
• Identify new use cases to expand adoption and value.
• Turn successful deployments into playbooks for faster future delivery.
• Work hybrid with 30-50% on-site time at client sites.

Skills

Transformation programs

Stakeholder management

Change management

C-level interactions

Technical concepts

AI product interest

STEM degree

Immediate start

Education

STEM degree

Job description

About us

We are Valis - a company building an institutional AI operating layer for mid-market companies: shared company memory, workflow mining and agentic automation.

Role overview

As a Client Deployment Lead, AI, you own the deployment of our platform at client companies, turning a CEO's AI ambitions into measurable change in company efficiency. You lead each engagement from discovery through go-live to company-wide adoption, working with the client's leadership team and a forward-deployed engineer. The role suits people who have run transformation programs, are comfortable with technology and want to work at startup speed.

What you'll do

• - Lead discovery and map how the client company works: structure, processes, decisions, data
• - Scope deployments, success metrics and timelines with the executive sponsor
• - Run delivery with a forward-deployed engineer and get the client live fast
• - Drive adoption across leadership, employees and core processes
• - Help the CEO with AI transformation: what to automate, what to redesign, how the operating model changes, how to overcome resistance and friction and implement real change
• - Identify new use cases that expand adoption and value
• - Turn what works into playbooks that make each deployment faster than the last

We expect a Client Deployment Lead to work hybrid, spending 30-50% of working time on-site with the Client.

What we're looking for

• - 7-10 years of experience, including transformation or implementation programs you ran end to end
• - Ability to independently manage multiple stakeholders and get things done in complex projects
• - Strong organization, project and change management skills
• - Experience working with C-level stakeholders or founders
• - Comfort with technical concepts: data models, APIs, integrations, LLM tools and agents
• - High agency, strong bias for action and interest in AI products
• - STEM degree or relevant technical experience
• - Readiness to start as soon as possible
• - Apart from preferred locations, we are ready to consider candidates from other EMEA countries

Nice to have

• - Background in top-tier management or technical consulting/implementation, high-growth startups
• - Hands-on AI implementation

We offer competitive base compensation, performance-based bonus and a place on the first team of a new function.