Dust
Global Head of AI Deployment & Partner Delivery (Paris)
Paris, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will lead and grow the global AI Deployment team to make high-impact Dust deployments repeatable at scale. They will personally lead complex customer deployments and build a partner delivery network to ensure consistent customer success.
What you will do
- Lead and set direction, priorities, and standards for the global AI Deployment team.
- Hire and develop deployment leaders and practitioners.
- Build a single deployment method for Dust and partner teams to follow.
- Define deployment leadership roles and partner delivery criteria.
- Personally lead complex, high-priority, and first-of-their-kind deployments.
- Help customer leaders define AI transformation and identify valuable workflows.
- Design change programs including executive sponsorship and communication plans.
- Build a high-quality partner delivery network through onboarding and training.
- Track adoption after launch and hand off to Customer Success.
- Turn lessons from engagements into reusable playbooks and templates.
Required qualifications
- At least 6 years of experience leading and developing customer-facing deployment or delivery teams.
- Experience leading complex enterprise deployments or transformation programs.
- Experience building or improving a deployment methodology, professional services model, or delivery function.
- Experience leading organizational change alongside technology rollouts.
- Understanding of how systems integrators, consultancies, and implementation partners staff and deliver.
- Ability to turn around engagements at risk from scope, staffing, or technical complexity.
- Credibility with customer executives, partner leaders, and technical practitioners.
- Hands-on, low-ego leader with a builder's instinct.
- Comfortable traveling to customers and partners.
- Understand how agents work in practice: prompting, context, tool use, retrieval, evaluations, reliability, and cost.
- Ability to design evaluation approaches connecting AI performance to business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Machine-learning engineer
About the company
Dust empowers AI Operators at the world's fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done using enterprise-grade governance and flexible model choice. The company is backed by Sequoia and serves customers like Datadog, 1Password, and Cursor.