Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead

Prime Intellect
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Strategy & Corporate DevelopmentSkills: ["Customer empathy","Product judgment","Execution","Communication","Agency","Comfort with stakeholders","Low ego"]

Work directly with strategic customers to identify high-value AI workflows and translate them into evals and post-training opportunities. Lead technical workstreams from discovery through POC, deployment, expansion, and case studies, defining use cases, success metrics, eval design, environment requirements, and milestones. Partner with Applied Research to inform the roadmap, help prioritize frontier-impact work, and drive real revenue through qualification, scoping, proposal, and procurement.

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Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect
2 months ago

Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead

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Job Summary

Work directly with strategic customers to identify high-value AI workflows and translate them into evals and post-training opportunities. Lead technical workstreams from discovery through POC, deployment, expansion, and case studies, defining use cases, success metrics, eval design, environment requirements, and milestones. Partner with Applied Research to inform the roadmap, help prioritize frontier-impact work, and drive real revenue through qualification, scoping, proposal, and procurement.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead high-priority customer workstreams from technical discovery through POC, deployment, expansion, and case study.
  • •Identify valuable AI workflows, translate them into evals and post-training opportunities, and define success metrics.
  • •Turn ambiguous customer problems into crisp scopes covering use cases, eval design, environment requirements, integrations, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
  • •Partner deeply with Applied Research to bring customer signal into the research and product roadmap and prioritize field-relevant evals, environments, agents, and post-training recipes.
  • •Drive revenue by guiding customers through qualification, legal, scoping, proposal, procurement, POC, deployment, and expansion while maintaining senior customer relationships.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityVisa SponsorshipRelocation SupportLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with forward deployed engineering or technical GTM and owning customer-facing outcomes through POC and deployment.
  • •AI product strategy or applied AI experience, including solutions architecture for highly technical products.
  • •Experience with ML engineering, applied research, or AI engineering with direct customer exposure.
  • •Product management experience for AI, infrastructure, devtools, or enterprise software.
  • •Strong written and verbal communication, comfort partnering with executives, researchers, engineers, and operators while running multiple complex customer workstreams.
Experience:Frontier AIApplied AIAI infrastructureEnterprise AIEarly-stage startups
Skills:Customer empathyProduct judgmentExecutionCommunicationAgencyComfort with stakeholdersLow ego
Tech Stack:SFTRLE valsSecure sandboxesLangGraphDSPyMCPStagehandBrowserbaseAgent workflowsTool-use workflowsPost-trainingTraining loopsDeployment playbooks

Company Brief

Prime Intellect
Builds a decentralized, open compute and training platform that enables distributed training and collective ownership of AI models, aggregating global GPU resources and offering tools for agentic RL and model evaluation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2024
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