# Forward Deployed Strategist

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

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

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Strategist to lead strategic customer engagements from initial workshops to delivery. You will collaborate with executive sponsors to identify high-value use cases, define project scopes, and ensure successful outcomes. This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise in agentic coding and LLMs, along with executive presence to build trust with C-suite stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Partner with executive sponsors to scope projects, ensuring clear ROI and technical feasibility

- Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate engagement viability

- Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) on technical builds, focusing on configuration layers and workflow optimisation

- Drive technical enablement and adoption, including hands-on training and playbook development

- Monitor technical feasibility and adjust project scope as needed

- Identify expansion opportunities and escalate product gaps or integration issues

- Develop reusable playbooks to enhance FDE organisational capabilities

**Requirements:**

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

- Strong understanding of agentic coding and LLMs, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior engineers

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

- Experience shipping AI-native workflows beyond the prototype stage

- Ability to navigate complex enterprise environments and scope high-impact projects quickly

- Executive presence to manage C-suite relationships and technical credibility to earn trust with engineering leads

- Domain expertise in financial services, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare, or semiconductors is highly desirable

## Skills

### Required
- agentic coding
- LLMs
- Solutions Architecture
- Deployment Strategy
- technical consulting
- Engagement Management
- Cursor workflows
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript

### 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-ny-remote-san-francisco-ca?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)