Forward Deployed Strategist – Engineer, AI
Future U Podcast
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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About the role
- Partner directly with university customers to solve their biggest challenges using data, AI, and web technologies.
- Work in small, cross-functional teams, owning end-to-end delivery of high-stakes projects: from requirements gathering and architecture to code, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Rapidly understand complex customer workflows and pain points.
- Translate domain needs into valuable technical solutions.
- Own design, development, testing, and deployment of custom features and integrations.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and customer success to iterate quickly.
- Leverage large-scale datasets, LLMs, and AI agents to surface insights and automate workflows.
- Build dashboards, APIs, or custom agents that drive measurable impact.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product management, startup strategy & operations, consulting, investment banking, or software engineering experience, ideally including roles that involved solution delivery and customer-facing projects.
- Proven ability to own complex projects end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
- Deeply analytical, with a knack for breaking down ambiguous challenges into concrete solutions.
- Eagerness to learn new tools, frameworks, and research - especially in ML/AI.
- Excellent interpersonal skills: able to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
- Humble, pragmatic, and coachable - valuing feedback and always seeking to raise the bar.
- Aspires to grow into an engineering leader or product-centric role.
- Comfortable stepping into uncharted territory and defining what “done” looks like.
Benefits
- Occasional travel to client sites for discovery, workshops, training, and deployments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data analysisAIweb technologiesrequirements gatheringarchitecturecodingdeploymenttestingdashboardsAPIs
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilitycoachablefeedback receptivenessleadership aspirationcustomer-facing