Forward Deployed Strategist

Cursor
London, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Executive communication","Scoping","Technical discovery","Enablement","Adoption coaching"]

Own Cursor’s most strategic customer engagements end-to-end, starting with executive workshops and shaping ambiguous business needs into tightly scoped, time-boxed projects with clear ROI. Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews, then work alongside Forward Deployment engineers on the configuration layer—workflows, integrations, and platform tooling—while driving enablement, adoption, and feasibility through delivery. Escalate product and roadmap gaps with specific customer context.

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Forward Deployed Strategist

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Job Summary

Own Cursor’s most strategic customer engagements end-to-end, starting with executive workshops and shaping ambiguous business needs into tightly scoped, time-boxed projects with clear ROI. Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews, then work alongside Forward Deployment engineers on the configuration layer—workflows, integrations, and platform tooling—while driving enablement, adoption, and feasibility through delivery. Escalate product and roadmap gaps with specific customer context.
Location: London, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with customer executive sponsors to scope FDE projects by translating business problems into time-boxed deliverables with clear ROI.
  • •Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews to validate integration complexity and infrastructure constraints for each engagement.
  • •Work with the FDE on delivery by owning the configuration layer (workflows, settings, integrations, and platform tooling) while the FDE handles deeper production builds.
  • •Own technical enablement and adoption through hands-on training, building playbooks/reference workflows, and coaching teams until they are self-sufficient.
  • •Maintain engagement feasibility, adjust scope with sponsors as constraints emerge, and escalate product gaps/integration friction back to Product and Engineering.

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years in solutions architecture, deployment strategy, technical consulting, or an engagement manager role owning scoping and delivery with a technical team in AI-production workflows.
  • •Strong understanding of agentic coding and LLMs, including how they behave in production and what a resilient workflow looks like.
  • •Comfort working hands-on with Cursor workflows, integrations, and platform configuration, and ability to read enough Python/JS-TS to partner with an FDE.
  • •Experience shipping AI-native workflows past prototype and identifying real production constraints versus nice-to-haves.
  • •Executive presence to earn trust with C-suite and engineering leaders, while keeping engagements scoped tightly and delivered fast.
Experience:6+ years
Skills:Executive communicationScopingTechnical discoveryEnablementAdoption coaching
Tech Stack:CursorLLMsAgentic codingPythonJavaScriptTypeScript

Company Brief

Cursor
Builds Cursor, an AI-powered development platform and code editor that helps developers write, review, and maintain code using large language models and developer-focused automation tools for enterprise engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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