Forward Deployed Strategist · · Remote; New York; San Francisco Apply →

Cursor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anysphere, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to own strategic customer engagements from workshops through delivery. You’ll work with executive sponsors, shape tightly scoped projects, and stay accountable for outcomes with the FDE.

You’ll join a small pod, stay hands-on with configuration, workflows, integrations, and platform tooling, translating technical builds into business value while driving adoption and repeat engagements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy or technical consulting.
• Experience owning scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI production workflows.
• Ability to translate business problems into tightly scoped, ROI-focused engagements.

Responsibilities

• Scope FDE projects with executive sponsors and define timeboxed deliverables.
• Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews for feasibility.
• Own the technical build alongside the FDE and manage workflows and integrations.
• Drive technical enablement, adoption, and build repeatable playbooks.
• Maintain executive relationships and communicate value to C-suite.
• Escalate product gaps with specificity to guide roadmap decisions.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Engagement management

AI/production workflows

Executive communication

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

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

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