# Forward Deployed Strategist

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

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-strategist-london-new-york-remote?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 clear objectives and return on investment (ROI)

- Conduct technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate project 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 developing playbooks and reference workflows

- Monitor project progress, adjusting scopes as needed, and identify opportunities for expansion

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

- Establish and maintain executive relationships, selling the vision and plan to C-suite stakeholders

Requirements:

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

- Strong understanding of agentic coding and Large Language Models (LLMs), with the ability to communicate technical details to senior engineers

- Hands-on experience with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform configuration, as well as basic programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript

- Proven track record of shipping AI-native workflows beyond the prototype stage and navigating production constraints

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

- Domain expertise in financial services, insurance, telecom, high-tech, healthcare/life sciences, or semiconductors is highly valued

## Skills

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

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

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