Frontier AI Strategy & Deployment Lead

Prime Intellect; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash compensation

Meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship and relocation

Professional development budget

Team off-sites and conference exposure

Direct exposure to frontier AI labs

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building an open frontier AI platform that unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and deployment for post-training workflows. The Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead will work directly with strategic customers to map high-value AI workflows to evals and deployments, shaping the commercial and technical path from prototype to repeatable category.

You will partner with Applied Research and Engineering to turn customer signals into actionable product roadmap and deployment

Qualifications

• Strong intuition for AI products and workflows.
• Ability to understand technical systems without needing every detail pre-digested.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfort operating with executives, researchers, engineers, and operators.
• High agency and low ego.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority customer workstreams from discovery through POC, deployment, expansion, and case study.
• Help customers build agents, automate workflows, improve model performance, or reduce inference cost.
• Define use cases, success metrics, eval design, and environment requirements for deployments.
• Translate messy customer conversations into crisp scopes for Applied Research and Engineering to execute.
• Own senior customer relationships and drive revenue through qualification, scoping, and deployment.

Skills

Forward deployed GTM

AI product strategy

Solutions architecture

Startup operating experience

PM for AI infra/enterprise

Job description

Prime Intellect is building an open frontier AI platform that unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and deployment for post-training workflows. The Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead will work directly with strategic customers to map high-value AI workflows to evals and deployments, shaping the commercial and technical path from prototype to repeatable category.

You will partner with Applied Research and Engineering to turn customer signals into actionable product roadmap and deployment