Senior Forward Deployed Strategist

The role

Forward Deployed Strategists embed with enterprise stakeholders to map workflows and build business cases for AI agents. You will diagnose operational breaks, co-create KPIs, and drive adoption through change management. The role involves translating business problems into technical briefs for engineers to build against.

What you will do

• Embed with client teams to map workflows across departments
• Run discovery engagements including stakeholder interviews and process mapping
• Build business cases by sizing opportunities and modeling value
• Translate business problems into agent briefs for engineers
• Co-create and baseline KPIs with clients
• Drive adoption by training client teams and observing users
• Present findings and recommendations to C-suite stakeholders
• Codify successful processes into playbooks and frameworks
• Build relationships with existing clients to identify new AI opportunities

Required qualifications

• Track record of solving hard, ambiguous problems for senior stakeholders
• Top tier communication skills
• Ability to hold a room of executives and push back on a CFO
• Analytical rigor to model a business and pressure-test numbers
• Strong commercial sense
• AI-curious and AI-fluent
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineers
• Based in SF or willing to relocate

Nice to have

• Investment Banking experience at a top-tier bank
• Private Equity experience on an investment team at a top-tier fund
• Top-tier strategy consulting experience
• BizOps, Chief of Staff, or corporate strategy experience at a high-growth startup or mid-size tech company
• Deployment Strategist experience at a top-tier AI company
• Founder or early employee at a startup that sold into the enterprise
• Transformation or operations leadership inside a Fortune 500

Benefits

• Meaningful equity

Before you apply

• Employment is subject to a standard confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement

About the company

Varick builds AI agents that take over real operational workflows inside the world's largest enterprises. The team includes members from Meta, AWS Bedrock, Citadel Securities, McKinsey, BCG, and Stanford.