Forward Deployed Strategist

Cursor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to own our most strategic customer engagements from kickoff through delivery. You will work directly with executive sponsors to surface high-value use cases, convert them into tightly scoped projects, and stay accountable for outcomes with the FDE.

You will be part of a small pod, leading the executive relationship and shaping delivery, while the FDE embeds with the customer team to execute production builds.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or Engagement Manager roles.
• Experience delivering AI/production workflows.
• Ability to scope work with technical teams and translate to business value.

Responsibilities

• Scope engagements with executive sponsors, translating problems into time-boxed deliverables with ROI.
• Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate feasibility.
• Partner with FDEs to own configuration and workflows, and drive adoption.
• Maintain executive relationships from kickoff to handoff and communicate progress.
• Identify expansion opportunities with account teams and provide feedback to Product/Engineering.
• Build reusable playbooks to improve organizational capability over time.

Skills

Solutions Architecture

Deployment Strategy

Technical Consulting

Engagement Management

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Open — Cursor has a posting for this job. Posted 25 Sep 2026.

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About this job

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

About the role

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Strategist to own our most strategic customer engagements - from first workshop through delivery. You'll sit with executive sponsors, surface the highest-value use cases, turn them into tightly scoped projects, then stay accountable for the outcome, working with the FDE.

You'll typically work in a pod of one Strategist and 1-2 FDEs. You own the executive relationship and the shape of delivery; the FDE embeds with the customer's team and owns the deeper production builds. You'll stay hands‑on at the configuration layer week to week, including workflows, integrations, and platform tooling, partnering with the FDE where the build is most complex. You will translate technical build into business outcomes and own the adoption of the build.

This is for someone who combines technical credibility in agentic coding and LLMs with the executive presence to earn trust in the boardroom, and the judgment to keep engagements scoped tight, delivered fast, and worth repeating.

What you’ll do

• Scope
  • Partner with customer executive sponsors to scope FDE projects — translating ambiguous business problems into concrete, time‑boxed deliverables with clear ROI
  • Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints to validate that every engagement is technically feasible
• Deliver
  • Work side by side with the FDE on the technical build — you own the configuration layer including workflows, settings, integrations, and platform tooling that don't require heavy custom code while the FDE owns the deeper production builds
  • Own technical enablement and adoption: run hands‑on training, build playbooks and reference workflows, and coach the customer's team until they're self‑sufficient. Adoption is measured by what their users do without you in the room
  • Monitor technical feasibility throughout delivery, adjusting scope with the sponsor when constraints emerge rather than letting engagements drift
  • Identify and scope expansion opportunities as they surface during delivery, in partnership with the account team
  • Escalate product gaps, integration friction, and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering with enough specificity to drive roadmap decisions
  • Build reusable playbooks that make the broader FDE org more capable over time
• Own the executive relationship
  • Establish and maintain the executive relationship on your engagements, serving as the primary point of contact from kickoff through handoff
  • Sell the vision and the plan to C‑suite stakeholders who need to believe in both the outcome and the team delivering it
  • Translate between business outcomes and technical implementation in both directions — for the sponsor and for the build team

You may be a fit if

• You've spent 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or an Engagement Manager seat where you owned scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI‑production workflows
• You understand agentic coding and LLMs well enough to hold your own with senior eng: how they behave in production, where they fail, and what a resilient workflow looks like (you don't need to be the person writing the production code)
• You're comfortable hands‑on with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform config, and can read enough Python / JS‑TS to partner with an FDE
• You've shipped AI‑native workflows past the prototype stage and can tell a real production constraint from a nice‑to‑have
• You can walk into an unfamiliar enterprise eng org, find the highest‑leverage intervention fast, and scope something that delivers concrete value in weeks, not quarters
• You have the executive presence to own the C‑suite relationship and the technical credibility to earn trust with their eng leads
• Domain depth in FSI, insurance, telecom, high‑tech, healthcare/life sciences, or semiconductor is a strong plus