Forward-Deployed Program Lead, AI Platform

Signal Processing Engineer (RF Processing & Analytics); Paris (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmattan AI seeks a Forward Deployed Program Lead to own partnerships from strategy to delivery. You will embed with the customer to map needs, define use cases, and prioritize work for a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers.

You’ll shape a multi-year roadmap and ensure high-quality delivery with stakeholder governance. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, unblock data access, and translate insights back to Product and R&D to evolve the platform in a demanding defense

Qualifications

• Product mindset to translate user needs into concrete use cases.
• Track record delivering end-to-end projects in fast-paced settings.
• Experience navigating large organizations and expanding a customer footprint.
• Strong analytical and engineering mindset with data and AI familiarity.
• Self-starter with high autonomy and ownership.
• Ability to interact with diverse stakeholders and sponsors.
• Willingness for frequent on-site presence with the customer.

Responsibilities

• Own the project partnership end-to-end: grow our footprint with the customer through new use cases, and build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for the partnership: a prioritized list of use cases, the architecture to deliver them, and the pitch to support them.
• Run joint governance with the customer: communicate outcomes, prepare monthly steering committees and demos, and keep the customer team aligned.
• Coordinate development across use cases: prioritize the work of the Forward Deployed Software Engineers, collect and remove blockers, and review their work against the quality bar.
• Work with the customer's IT teams to unblock data access and the technical dependencies of the development team.
• Meet the customer's operational teams to understand their pain points, and refine the value proposition of each use case.
• Feed what you learn back to the Product and R&D teams to shape the platform.

Skills

Product mindset

Project leadership

Forward-deployed experience

Analytical mindset

Autonomy

Stakeholder management

On-site collaboration

Job description

Harmattan AI seeks a Forward Deployed Program Lead to own partnerships from strategy to delivery. You will embed with the customer to map needs, define use cases, and prioritize work for a team of Forward Deployed Software Engineers.

You’ll shape a multi-year roadmap and ensure high-quality delivery with stakeholder governance. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, unblock data access, and translate insights back to Product and R&D to evolve the platform in a demanding defense