# Forward Deployed Strategist

**Company**: Cursor
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-strategist-new-york-remote-san-francisco?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Cursor is seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to lead strategic customer engagements from initial workshops to delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with executive sponsors to identify high-value use cases, define project scopes, and ensure successful outcomes.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with executive sponsors to scope projects, defining concrete deliverables and ROI

- Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate engagement feasibility

- Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) on technical builds, focusing on configuration layers, workflows, integrations, and platform tooling

- Drive technical enablement and adoption, providing hands-on training and coaching

- Monitor technical feasibility, adjusting scopes as needed, and identify expansion opportunities

- Escalate product gaps, integration issues, and customer pain points to inform roadmap decisions

- Develop reusable playbooks to enhance FDE capabilities

Requirements:

- 6+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Deployment Strategy, technical consulting, or Engagement Management, particularly with AI-production workflows

- Strong understanding of agentic coding and Large Language Models (LLMs)

- Hands-on experience with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform configuration

- Ability to ship AI-native workflows beyond the prototype stage

- Executive presence to engage with C-suite stakeholders and technical credibility to collaborate with engineering leads

- Domain expertise in industries such as financial services, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare, or semiconductors is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- agentic coding
- LLMs
- Solutions Architecture
- Deployment Strategy
- technical consulting
- Engagement Management
- AI-production workflows
- Cursor workflows
- integrations
- platform configuration
- Python
- JS-TS

### Nice to have
- financial services
- insurance
- telecom
- high-tech
- healthcare
- semiconductors

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Source: [Apply at cursor.com](https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-strategist-new-york-remote-san-francisco?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)