AI Deployment Lead: Field-to-Production Excellence

Tactical Edge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tactical Edge is seeking a Forward Deployment Manager to drive AI deployment programs from field discovery through adoption and production rollout. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across product, engineering, AI, security, and partners, including AWS, to keep field execution predictable and outcomes measurable.

You will translate customer goals into deployment plans, milestones, success metrics, and adoption targets, manage risk and dependencies, and ensure production readiness with

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex software, cloud, data, or AI deployment programs in enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate technical teams and understand system constraints and adoption blockers.
• Familiarity with agile delivery, phased rollouts, and PoC/pilot motions.
• Ability to manage risk, dependencies, ambiguity, and customer change management calmly.

Responsibilities

• Lead embedded AI deployment programs from workflow discovery through adoption and production rollout.
• Translate customer operating goals into deployment plans, milestones, dependencies, success metrics, and adoption targets.
• Coordinate deployment engineers, product, AI engineering, security, AWS partners, and customer stakeholders.
• Prioritize high-value workflow opportunities and keep teams focused on measurable productivity, quality, and outcomes.
• Ensure production readiness across evaluation, security review, governance, documentation, enablement, and handoff.
• Drive adoption of reusable AI workflow patterns, templates, and operational playbooks across customer teams.
• Maintain clear status reporting, decision logs, risk registers, and deployment metrics for customer and internal leadership.
• Turn field learnings into repeatable delivery motions that make each deployment faster and more reliable.

Job description

Tactical Edge is seeking a Forward Deployment Manager to drive AI deployment programs from field discovery through adoption and production rollout. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across product, engineering, AI, security, and partners, including AWS, to keep field execution predictable and outcomes measurable.

You will translate customer goals into deployment plans, milestones, success metrics, and adoption targets, manage risk and dependencies, and ensure production readiness with