Field Deployment Strategist - Industrial AI Adoption

Found AI; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits (BCBSIL Blue PPO)

Dental 75% company‑paid

Vision coverage (voluntary)

Equity: Yes

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Found AI is seeking a Deployment Lead in Chicago to oversee engagements with multiple customers, driving workshops, adoption, and renewal decisions. You will partner with forward deployed engineers and an Operational Partner to capture workflow needs, define success metrics, and sign production orders.

You’ll manage scope, cadence, and budgets across deployments, ensure executive-level readouts, and steer the commercial terms from discovery through renewal in collaboration with clients and Found

Qualifications

• Defined a messy business problem with operators or executives and drove to measurable results (must-have).
• Managed several customer projects simultaneously with scope, cadence, and follow-through (must-have).
• Led working sessions with senior stakeholders to stay on track (must-have).
• Handled commercial threads: scoped terms, buyer mapping, and renewal to signature (must-have).
• Communicated deployment status clearly, even when off track (must-have).
• Experience deploying to industrial operators or executives is a plus (nice-to-have).

Responsibilities

• Scope, plan, and cadence on every deployment: define the metric, baseline, and plan.
• Own the commercial thread: MOU, data agreement, buyer map, budget path, conversion terms, and production order.
• Drive adoption: training, feedback loops, and changes that embed the tool into the job.
• Coordinate alignment from operators to executive sponsor and deliver readouts proving value.
• Lead renewal and expansion efforts, co-led with the forward deployed engineer.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-project management

Facilitation

Commercial acumen

Clear communication

Job description

Found AI is seeking a Deployment Lead in Chicago to oversee engagements with multiple customers, driving workshops, adoption, and renewal decisions. You will partner with forward deployed engineers and an Operational Partner to capture workflow needs, define success metrics, and sign production orders.

You’ll manage scope, cadence, and budgets across deployments, ensure executive-level readouts, and steer the commercial terms from discovery through renewal in collaboration with clients and Found