Forward Deployed Strategist

The role

You will act as a forward-deployed strategist for frontier AI labs and major AI companies. You will lead discovery, manage project plans, and drive AI adoption through workshops and playbooks.

What you will do

• Embed with enterprise customers as an extension of their team
• Act as product manager for customer AI problems by leading discovery and defining success
• Communicate between customers and engineers to translate requirements
• Synthesize stakeholder needs into project plans and manage timelines and risks
• Run workshops and hands-on sessions to teach non-technical teams AI workflows
• Build curricula, guides, and playbooks to ensure adoption
• Track usage and outcomes to move deployments from experimentation to production
• Grow accounts by turning early wins into broader rollouts
• Bring field insight back to partner product teams and the deployment playbook

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in client-facing consulting, strategy, product, or project management roles
• Track record of owning projects end to end
• Hands-on AI power user using LLMs, agents, and AI workflow tools daily
• Ability to explain complex concepts to executives, end users, and engineers
• Ability to find the real problem underneath vague requests
• Ability to communicate in writing and slides
• Technically fluent to work alongside engineering or data teams
• Comfortable in ambiguity

Nice to have

• Forward-deployed or AI startup experience
• Ability to read code or build simple prototypes, automations, or integrations
• Prior experience at an AI company, or deploying enterprise AI products at scale
• Experience using Claude, ChatGPT, Glean, or similar tools in a work setting
• Product management experience at a software company
• Background in enablement, instructional design, or change management
• Familiarity with advanced AI concepts like RAG, MCPs, and agent orchestration
• Prior account expansion experience

Benefits

• Work From Anywhere
• Full benefits including healthcare, dental, and vision
• 401k for US employees
• Unlimited PTO
• Regular Team Retreat

Before you apply

• AI is used to help review and shortlist applications
• Candidates should be upfront about how they used AI in the process

About the company

Lazer is a remote-first digital product studio headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, composed of 180+ senior engineers and designers. They design, engineer, and grow products for clients ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises.